Will 2013 prove to be another year of living dangerously?

While 2012 started with an air of crisis, we enter 2013 in a somewhat calmer environment, even if the budget crisis in the US threatens some short-term instability.

It has been a tough few years, and it would be unrealistic to claim that, in some way, the worst is over. Perhaps it is, in terms of the fear and crisis management we have seen in the past couple of years, but the problems ...