The official response is to stamp brutally on Uighur restiveness and to make Xinjiang more like the rest of China.

ECONOMIST: China

Renewed restiveness among Kurds could spill into northern Iraq: some Turkish generals say they would like to expand operations against Kurdish terrorists based there.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

Popular restiveness against national leaders, even if it is not allowed to show itself in Toyako, puts the G8's goals in even greater question.

ECONOMIST: The G8 summit

Early returns in the local elections held in Iran last weekend offer fresh evidence of the restiveness of many Iranians with the bellicose and increasingly dangerous policies of their president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Surge protector

And yet a restiveness troubles the market.

FORBES: The Road Less Traveled

An important straw in the wind concerning Moscow's coming economic retaliation for Baltic restiveness may have been last summer's decision by the Soviet Ministry for Energy to eliminate funds for a second pipeline to Mazeikiai from the USSR.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Faced with the restiveness in his own ranks, Mr. Obama in his press conference Tuesday said he made the deal because he was faced with a stark choice: Give Republicans what he called their "holy grail" the income tax cuts for the wealthy or risk a major economic blow to the U.S. economy and to "real people" with real economic struggles.

WSJ: Obama Woos Wary Party on Tax Deal