The parallels with the Balkans, where the fall of communism unleashed still greater horrors, seemed disquietingly apt.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Disquietingly for Tony Blair, the Cabinet Office has found that 64% of respondents will blame the government if anything goes wrong.

ECONOMIST: Millennium party-poopers

Mr Barak has emerged from the negotiations with his reputation confirmed as a somewhat aloof and distant autocrat, disarmingly clever and disquietingly mysterious.

ECONOMIST: Israel