Still, it is hard to imagine any of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) locking horns, apart perhaps from Cambodia and Thailand, who lob the occasional artillery shell at each other over a disputed temple on the border.

ECONOMIST: Military spending in South-East Asia

Despite the rivers of blood that have been shed, the mayors on both sides of the border, as well as in neighbouring Hungary, know each other and want to talk about practical matters like how to manage rivers of the other kind.

ECONOMIST: The Danube��s bonny, bloody banks