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The Terrorist Next DoorNEW DELHI – Recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) – the frontier between India and Pakistan in the state of Jammu and Kashmir – have again raised fundamental questions about the nuclear-armed neighbors’ fraught relationship.
It would help if Pakistan’s government – facing home-grown terrorists even as it exports terror to its neighbors – showed a little more willingness to join the quest for peace.
They seem to believe that China has once again become the “Middle Kingdom,” occupying a central position in the world that demands global deference – and vassalage for its immediate neighbors.
But its longer-term interests lie in having politically stable neighbors that embrace similar economic reforms, thereby opening the way for a free-trade area that would benefit the entire region.
Or does he go far beyond that, governing Russia and dealing with his neighbors and the rest of the world with reckless mendacity, abetted by a supine national media?
It is difficult to shake hands with opponents who are killing one’s families and neighbors.
While we rejoice in our successes, however, we have long recognized that our future is tied to our neighbors’ challenges, whether they include military conflicts, as was true 20 years ago, or hunger and disease, as is the case today.
It has been said that “good fences make good neighbors.”
Third, the US should continue its efforts to encourage action by Iran’s neighbors.
Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines.
But power generates opposition, and Germany’s alarmed neighbors began to form defensive alliances.
So, while US troops may be leaving Afghanistan, an end to the violence spawned by America’s war remains nothing more than a distant dream – especially for Afghanistan’s South Asian neighbors.
For China, the existence of these two Asia-focused development banks provides the best of all possible financial worlds: low-cost investment funding from the ADB, which is backed by the developed countries’ high creditworthiness, and the opportunity to use the AIIB’s investment decisions to draw its neighbors closer in geopolitical terms.
The strain on Syria’s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region.
It was possible to establish authority through collectivist myths, to assert your separate road against global trends, to molest neighbors in the teeth of international censure.
India’s neighbors have proved this often enough, welcoming the overthrow of elected governments in popular coups.
Unless China demonstrates that it can live peacefully with its neighbors, its government’s claim that the international community has nothing to fear from the country’s growing power will be doubted.
But, unless China is brought into such a framework, its sense of isolation will grow, as will the temptation to define its interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of its neighbors.
Historically, rising powers tend to become too confident too soon, leading them to behave imprudently, which frightens their neighbors.
The extent to which policymaking by the country’s new leader, Xi Jinping, takes into account the insecurity felt by China’s neighbors – and abandons a quest for absolute security for China – will be one of the key variables influencing East Asia’s security environment in the years ahead.
This applies not just to Europe, Japan, and South Korea, but also to America’s immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
At the dawn of the 1990’s, Japan’s dominance in export markets worldwide had already been dented somewhat by the rise of its smaller Asian neighbors, including Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, and Singapore.
Surrounded by hostile neighbors, such as Chinese, Mongols, and Manchus in the north and Japanese across the sea, Koreans have struggle tooth and nail for thousands of years to retain their ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and political identity.
But, rather than seizing on that shift to legitimize its birth in the eyes of its Arab neighbors, Israel preferred to reopen the dormant debate on Zionism’s territorial objectives.
This should spur international institutions and North Korea’s neighbors to provide the food aid, technical assistance, and direct investment that the country needs to escape its current predicament and make the transition to a market economy.
This implies a significant role for North Korea’s neighbors, especially South Korea and Japan.
A Le Pen victory would amount to abandonment not just of Germany, but also of the values, principles, and norms that have enabled Germany to reconcile with itself and its neighbors, beginning with France.
In the EU, mainstream politicians must accept some responsibility for expediently blaming “Brussels” for every problem, or for fudging the truth about what EU membership or association agreements with neighbors actually mean.
The lack of opportunities on offer in Syria’s neighbors is exacerbating the underlying economic problem.
To be sure, refugee labor is a delicate political issue for Syria’s neighbors.
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