Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place

[Winner]

About Serbia - do you count Kosovo as a separate entity? If yes, it should be marked red or orange (local Serbs want to rejoin Serbia). Serbia proper, without Kosovo, should be green, because there's hardly anyone left to break off.

EDIT: FYROM should be orange. It's peaceful now, but it came very close to a civil war not long ago. The danger that the situation will deteriorate is still present.

 

[gangleri2001]

I answered your first question in my previous post.

As for albanians in macedonia, they're a peaceful movement now and I can't make decisions based on what can happen in the future because if I do so, then the whole map should be red.

 

[Agarwaen]

Just looking at the map, Argelia and Philipines shouldn't be green.

And the categories could be more precisely defined. When a movement stop been irrelevant and becomes minor? When the use of violence is enought to become red? Or is a movement extremely militarized, but in a cease-fire red or yellow?

 

[Winner]

I answered your first question in my previous post.

I missed it, sorry.

As for albanians in macedonia, they're a peaceful movement now and I can't make decisions based on what can happen in the future because if I do so, then the whole map should be red.

I am not asking you to base your map on speculations about the future. The Albanians in Macedonia have already used violence and I don't think the situation has really improved so much since that you can call the movement non-violent. Especially not if countries like Britain or Spain are orange. You could then mark Serbia yellow, because the current administration of Kosovo doesn't use violence either (because it has already achieved its goal through extreme violence in the past).

If you aim for consistency, you shouldn't compare countries by different standards.

 

[gangleri2001]

Britain and Spain have active violent groups right now, Macedonia doesn't. As for Kosovo, is a de facto independent state that doesn't have international recognition and use or used violence, just like Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh, so it falls in their same category.

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

Hey, ganglieri, what seccesionist movements have you found in Denmark, its just Greenland and maybe the Faroes, Right?

 

[Squonk]

Algeria has kabilian secessionist movement.

 

[gangleri2001]

Algeria has kabilian secessionist movement.

It's an autonomist movement, not a secessionist one.

 

[Squonk]

you are right, my mistake.

 

[Winner]

Help me fill this map:

(EDIT: the picture will be continually updated, don't include it if you quote this post)

Pro-austerity: countries which have begun implementing or have approved significant public spending cuts/debt reduction plans or have austerity minded governments which are expected to approve such plans in the immediate future.

Anti-austerity: countries which plan to do no such thing.

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I've filled just a few countries where I am sure. The US leads the anti-austerity camp and plans to spend its way out of the crisis, whereas China has no need for austerity. Germany has already approved a plan for far-reaching spending cuts. Spain, Greece and Portugal were forced to do the same to avoid bankruptcy. Romania was pressed by the IMF to cut pensions, public sector pay, etc.

You are free to download the map and paint countries. Be objective and only pain those where you're positive about the government's position.

 

[Tee Kay]

This is a modified version of gangleri's map, using Winner's base map. I've added another category for countries where there's violent ethnic conflict/ tension, but not a full-blown secessionist conflict.

 

[Karalysia]

Iran and Iraq should both be dark red I think considering they both have the Kurd, and Iran has the Baluchistan people who carry out bombings now and again.

 

[PiMan]

Help me fill this map:

Pro-austerity: countries which have begun implementing or have approved significant public spending cuts/debt reduction plans or have austerity minded governments which are expected to approve such plans in the immediate future.

Anti-austerity: countries which plan to do no such thing.

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I've filled just a few countries where I am sure. The US leads the anti-austerity camp and plans to spend its way out of the crisis, whereas China has no need for austerity. Germany has already approved a plan for far-reaching spending cuts. Spain, Greece and Portugal were forced to do the same to avoid bankruptcy. Romania was pressed by the IMF to cut pensions, public sector pay, etc.

You are free to download the map and paint countries. Be objective and only pain those where you're positive about the government's position.

Give Australia a month and we'll let you know. Labor don't really plan to make cuts, but the Liberals certainly do.

 

[say1988]

I don't believe Canada has any intention (or need) to do so, we did it a couple decades back.
But I wouldn't say that just because a country doesn't need a program that they are anti-austerity.

 

[Hakim]

France is anti-austerity, I'd say Sweden is pro austerity, Baltic countries as well.

 

[Winner]

France is anti-austerity, I'd say Sweden is pro austerity, Baltic countries as well.

Isn't Sarkozy planning some cuts? I think I've heard something like that on Euronews. Pensions should be overhauled, among other things. Perhaps our resident French people can clarify

I know Latvia made some very radical cuts to avoid outright bankruptcy. Don't know about Estonia and Lithuania.

 

[Karalysia]

And to think the teabaggers call you guys socialists.

 

[fizikis]

I know Latvia made some very radical cuts to avoid outright bankruptcy. Don't know about Estonia and Lithuania.

Lithuania also made cuts similar in nature to those of Latvia, but to a much lesser extent. Estonia has had a frugal budget for a long time so they really did not need to change their spending habits.

 

[Hakim]

Isn't Sarkozy planning some cuts? I think I've heard something like that on Euronews. Pensions should be overhauled, among other things. Perhaps our resident French people can clarify

Yes, perhaps that's better. Also, I was thinking attitude to austerity in general, not planned or upcoming measures. I think France often wants to spend its way out of recessions and get a balance in good times.

 

[really]

So far Ireland has cut unemployment benefit, public sector wages have been cut and taxes have been raised so I think we fall firmly in the austerity camp.

There are more to cuts and tax rises to come.