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While the eurozone’s northern members enjoy low borrowing costs and stable growth, its southern members face high borrowing costs, recession, and deep cuts in incomes and social spending.
They have also suffered substantial output losses, and have far higher unemployment rates than their northern counterparts.
While these policies – or lack thereof – have impeded recovery in the southern countries, they have yielded reasonable growth and very low unemployment rates for the northern economies.
Such impasses will lead to social tension and political crisis, or to new requests for financial assistance, which the northern countries are certain to resist.
This could drive Germany to withdraw from the eurozone and form a smaller currency union with other northern countries.
President Barack Obama’s decision to rotate 2,500 US Marines through a base in northern Australia is an early sign of that pivot.
Twenty-one of the mega cities estimated for year 2015 will be in developing and less developed countries, while 80% of the global cities that play host to decision-making actors are in the northern hemisphere.
Eventually, the southern hemisphere's more dramatic urban problems will spill over into mass migration to northern cities.
That Iran – a country whose president never tires of calling for Israel’s annihilation and that threatens Israel’s northern and southern borders through its massive support of proxy wars waged by Hezbollah and Hamas – might one day have missiles with nuclear warheads is Israel’s worst security nightmare.
The Middle East’s Next WarBERLIN – With the retaking of Mosul in northern Iraq, the Islamic State (ISIS) could soon be a thing of the past.
After all, wars on Israel’s northern front have not always been premeditated.
A massive evacuation of northern Israel’s civilian population was also simulated.
Under the Northern Corridor initiative, for example, each of our governments has accepted responsibility for shepherding key projects.
Iran’s backing of an administration dominated by the minority Alawites (a Shia sect) has clearly unnerved Sunni Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, which regards with great concern this “Shia crescent” just across its northern frontier.
And, despite a few notable exceptions in northern Europe and parts of Latin America, the rise in inequality has affected the developed and developing worlds alike.
Indeed, nocturnal satellite images show that, except for some parts of southern and northern Africa, it barely twinkles.
The stationing of US Marines in northern Australia thus appears pointless: these troops have no conceivable reason to be there.
Instability and separatism are growing in the northern Caucasus, making the broader region more volatile.
A half-dozen northern European countries can compete with the US when it comes to research and development spending and patents granted, but the south and east of Europe lag far behind.
Second, terrorism is undermining GDP growth and weighing down overall economic performance in affected countries; the economy of northern Nigeria, for example, has been devastated by the ongoing violence.
The fact that 55.8% of Northern Irish voters backed “Remain” in the 2016 referendum partly reflects this astonishing achievement.
Many of them would rather lose Northern Ireland and Scotland than forgo Brexit.
That question is all the more important, because the Netherlands and Austria, two of Germany’s Northern European eurozone neighbors, continue to run current-account surpluses, while the Southern European crisis countries have reversed their previously large deficits, as austerity has squeezed domestic demand and made room for an increase in exports.
Northern European countries, which have ample room to increase wages and implement expansionary policies, must do so.
This would directly benefit Northern European citizens themselves, while helping to keep the euro down and stimulate growth and adjustment in Southern Europe and the global economy as a whole.
Part of northern Kenya was inhabited by Somalis.
In addition, the Kurds will expect to retain a veto over any proposal that might compromise Kurdish autonomy in the northern provinces.
Then, in the early 1960s, Somalis in northern Kenya, with support from the Somali government in Mogadishu, fought for secession, further eroding regional stability and setting the stage for the failure of the Somali state in the early 1990s.
It has participated in United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Mali, prolonged its engagement in Afghanistan, supplied weapons and training to forces in northern Iraq, and provided reconnaissance flights and other assistance to French military strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
But, as periphery countries move into current-account balance and northern countries such as Germany run massive surpluses, the flip side has been deterioration in emerging-market surpluses, heightening their vulnerabilities.
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