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But in other ways Russia has been unhelpful – using energy resources as a political weapon, for example, and in their resistance to positive political changes in neighboring countries.
But that is more difficult when neighboring countries are exploiting the country's heterogeneous makeup to pursue their own hegemonic agendas.
The international community's goal must be to persuade neighboring countries to halt their brazen, unwarranted attacks on parts of Syrian society.
But the conflict is also between militants and moderates, fueled by neighboring rulers seeking to defend their interests and increase their influence.
Even if this changes, a comprehensive settlement would help the locals but not affect the dynamics of neighboring countries or conflicts.
That means building mutually beneficial relationships with neighboring countries, which can benefit by taking over some of China’s lower-value-added activities.
The problem is not another financial meltdown in an emerging market, with the predictable contagion that engulfs neighboring countries.
Oil prices have flirted with their highest level since the Gulf War and will go higher if Iraq's oil infrastructure (or that of neighboring countries) is damaged.
Brazil's crisis will cause a recession in neighboring Argentina.
It seems likely that as early as March or April 2011, Sunni anti-regime fighters and arms started to enter Syria from neighboring countries.
The army appears to be winning this time around, in marked contrast to its recent half-hearted confrontations with Taliban forces in neighboring tribal areas.
As in Nigeria, vaccination delays will be highly detrimental for neighboring countries.
In any conflict, neighboring countries’ participation and commitment are indispensable to the achievement of peace.
The trouble with reaching definitive conclusions about this or any other contested aspect of India's distant past is that, unlike in neighboring China, there is little in the way of an objective historical record to rely upon.
In contrast, neighboring Kenya was formed by colonial rule from dozens of different peoples or tribes, with different linguistic backgrounds and customs.
The rise of the Deutsche Mark and the currencies in neighboring countries during the foreign exchange market upheavals of recent years made this problem even more painful.
In the meantime, Syria and its daily carnage have become the dreariest and most numbing foreign-policy issue in American public opinion, despite the danger that the violence could spread across the Middle East (particularly to neighboring Iraq and Lebanon).
But if Iraq’s leaders can create enough near-term stability to combine Lebanon’s openness and entrepreneurial energy with the revenue that comes from development of the country’s vast oil reserves – an advantage that Lebanon’s leaders can only envy – Iraq might one day offer citizens of neighboring states something they don’t have: a hopeful model for the future.
It is a key partner for Myanmar (Burma) as it makes its own political and economic transition, and it is a hub for trade with neighboring Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Hungary's international integration makes it more suited to playing a regional role than neighboring countries.
Within 4-5 years Hungary may possess a more developed banking industry than neighboring and more affluent Austria, where state ownership and informal government interference remain characteristic in banking.
As econometric evidence and case studies reveal, one reason for this is that neighboring countries often use divided ethnic groups to destabilize one another’s governments, including through proxy wars.
It also needs time to negotiate with the international oil companies and neighboring countries, to perform technical and feasibility studies, and to reconstruct, rehabilitate, and explore its oil fields.
In neighboring Bahrain, the Saudis also moved quickly to bolster the Sunni-minority regime against a rising tide of protest led by the island kingdom’s Shia majority.
Customs unions typically bring together neighboring countries, which then trade across tariff- and quota-free frontiers and apply common tariffs for trade with other countries.
But, since the war in Iraq in 2003 and the empowerment of Shia across the region, the Saudi regime faces sizeable, restless, and politically ambitious Shia populations in neighboring Gulf countries, especially Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as in Lebanon.
Such “state capture” occurred in Russia in the late 1990’s and to an even greater extent under the Kuchma regime in neighboring Ukraine which, ironically, Putin tried to preserve.
In September, Armenia, which has been locked in a conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for more than two decades, suddenly halted its integration talks with the EU and announced its intention to join Russia-led structures.
If so, leaders such as Mbeki will emerge as heroes for a new Africa, where intervention in neighboring states will protect the millions on the continent who remain subjugated by elderly dictators like Mugabe, who have exploited their position as anti-colonial liberation leaders, and younger, free-booting adventurers like Taylor.
It is no wonder that the franc-zone countries have been unable to& catch up with the performance of neighboring economies, most of which are undergoing the& most prosperous& period& in their history.
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