Region
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In a long interview with the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama expressed his desire for Saudi Arabia to “share” the
region
with Iran, its principal regional rival.
Abbas is being asked to play for high stakes – defeating Hamas and with it the cause of Islamic fundamentalism in the
region
– with inadequate resources.
But the US is allocating more of its resources to the Asia-Pacific region, which means that European powers, acting under an appropriate umbrella, need to take the lead and provide the primary forces for military combat operations in Africa.
The United Nations' Arab Human Development Report is frank in its criticism of the
region'
s economic and social progress.
Economic growth has been slow, approximately half of women are illiterate, and the
region
is not well integrated into the world economy.
Yet the
region
has inadequate opportunities for young people to find meaningful work.
At the same time, the global economy and modernization can also promise better education, more jobs and opportunities, and improved health care, and opinion polls indicate that a majority of the
region'
s population desires these benefits.
The most effective advocates for democratic change are not American or European officials, but citizens of the
region
who understand Western virtues as well as flaws - and can adapt them to indigenous conditions to press for social change.
By supporting the teaching of foreign languages and financing student exchanges, they can help people in the
region
accomplish their own goals as spelled out in the Arab Human Development Report .
Mugabe's decision to shut down Zimbabwe's only independent newspaper, The Daily News , could prove to be crucial in weakening the support that he still enjoys in the
region.
The other condemns "the Commonwealth, the European Union (EU), and the United States of America (US) sanctions as they hurt not only ordinary Zimbabweans but also have profound social and economic implications on the
region
as a whole."
Communities in the Himalayan
region
have historically been closely integrated.
But, with Tibet locked behind an iron curtain since the 1951 Chinese annexation, the economies and cultures of the entire Himalayan
region
have weakened.
The recent downward trend follows an alarming spike in recruitment by Daesh from the
region.
And, indeed, as the UN report underscored, Daesh remains skilled at using social networks to attract and indoctrinate young people across the
region.
Yet there is no point in fooling oneself: Only as long as the Balkan countries believe in the European Union and the benefits of membership will today’s precarious peace in the
region
become permanent.
America’s misadventure in Iraq, its exhaustion as a world power, and its unwillingness to maintain its previous level of commitment to the
region
have rendered the Sykes-Picot structure untenable, because no other external force for order is available.
One of the few positive features of the
region
is that no global power rivalries are currently playing out there.
Institutions and traditions supporting cooperative conflict resolution hardly exist in the
region.
This, together with the communications revolution, has created even more interdependencies and has forced more cooperation upon governments – as has the continued presence of the US as a stabilizer in the region, which has proved to be indispensable.
During the 1960’s – the years of President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress – annual aid to the
region
exceeded $10 billion in today’s dollars.
Six years after Lula’s inauguration, and despite Bush’s trip, Latin American politicians continue to believe that their
region
is being neglected.
Barescu plans to align Romania with Anglo Saxon liberal economic policies, and wants a special relationship with Great Britain and the United States to improve security in the Black Sea
region.
For example, realists could conceive of the US trying to offset China’s geopolitical rise by bolstering its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with Japan and South Korea.
Sudan’s government, led by President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, has taken a page from its Darfur playbook by waging war once again on civilians and their property, this time attacking the disputed border
region
of Abyei on the eve of South Sudan’s legal secession next month.
The Red Sea region, comprising the 20 countries that use the route as their primary trading corridor, is the largest, fastest-growing, and least exploited emerging market in the world.
And yet, as encouraging as these numbers may be, the
region
has the potential to do much better.
A coordinated initiative to facilitate trade within the Red Sea
region
would have a significant impact on future development, boosting GDP by about 10% to $6.6 trillion and increasing trade by nearly 35% to $6.3 trillion, according to research commissioned by King Abdullah Economic City.
Achieving this would require significant improvement of logistics capabilities in the
region.
The World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) scores most of the countries in the Red Sea economic
region
below 2.6 on its five-point scale.
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