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The most logistics-friendly market in the region, the United Arab Emirates, has a score of 3.54, placing it just within the top 20% of countries in the LPI.
This process alone will create jobs, open career paths, and improve access to education across the
region.
Such an institution would facilitate the efficient distribution of capital to infrastructure development around the region, enhancing national trade capabilities and promoting sustainable economic growth.
The Red Sea
region
has a unique opportunity to develop into a global center of excellence in trade facilitation, strengthening economic ties throughout the
region
and building a new growth engine for the global economy.
Despite heroic efforts by aid agencies like the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to save lives and bring hope to the region, the terrible truth is that it is not possible to protect civilians, especially from snipers and stray missiles, never mind hunger and homelessness.
With few friends and even fewer sponsors in the region, Hamas had little choice but to return to its fellow Palestinian.
After a brief period of hope, many observers now wonder whether the
region
is capable of producing viable, and economically vibrant, democracies.
In eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin continued the war – which, in military terms, seems unwinnable for the Kyiv authorities – in the Donbas
region.
Two characteristics of the Arab world could explain this: its predominantly Muslim population and the autocratic governments that have ruled much of the
region
for the past 50 years.
China is currently playing by the international rules but is increasingly signaling that it expects to be treated as first among equals in the
region
(as the US has long insisted with respect to its position in the Americas).
The ongoing violence in Africa’s Great Lakes region, which has claimed millions of civilian lives, is rooted in the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the resulting flood of Hutu refugees into neighboring states.
Yet today, faced with a virus that kills half of those it infects and the prospect that it could decimate an entire
region
of Africa, disrupt air travel, and put people around the world in quarantine, the world has delivered only a fraction of the needed financial and material assistance.
The possibility of military intervention in Syria, together with the deteriorating situation in Egypt since the army’s coup, has placed the
region
on a razor’s edge.
Second, it is making progress in its negotiations with the Palestinians dependent on events in Egypt and elsewhere in the region, such as Iran.
The civil war in Syria, meanwhile, has inflamed the Sunni-Shia fault line that traverses the entire region, and that defines, for example, the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
That may not be surprising, given the violence and turmoil elsewhere in the
region.
A third school of thought places stability – the need to prevent absolute chaos in the
region
– above all else.
With the Middle East already consumed by a maelstrom of sectarian conflict, the last thing the
region
needs is another war centered around Lebanon.
Read More from "Zone Defense"The Case for KurdistanTEL AVIV – The Kurds – who occupy a mountainous
region
that includes portions of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey – are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state to call their own.
Although it is plagued by corruption and cronyism, like every other political organization in the region, the KRG represents the only truly functional government in Iraq, presiding over the country’s most peaceful and stable areas.
And in the Asia-Pacific region, even though major incidents were avoided, stability remains precarious.
With Turkey as a member, the EU would gain legitimacy as a more “normal” world
region.
For a country trying – as are others in the
region
– to avoid zero-sum choices between our strategic partner, the US, and our economic partner, China, the White Paper’s words were astutely chosen and deserve emulation.
After withdrawing its forces from Iraq, the US is considering using Kuwait as a new military hub to expand its military presence in the Persian Gulf
region
and foster a US-led “security architecture,” under which its air and naval patrols would be regionally integrated.
Pendulum shifts in the
region'
s politics mask a fundamental failure: people are unable to define their political preferences in a coherent way.
Perhaps corruption was the cause: but no government in the
region
has been able to avoid that charge.
In some ways, this is good, because it shows that people in the
region
still believe in politics.
The West nowadays seems to be escaping politics in all its forms; so once more the people in this
region
appear to be going against the current of the time.
But what Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and others in the
region
need is precisely a revival of the ideals of representation that are now so often a subject for derision in the West.
It may seem naive, but a return to competing ideologies may be the
region'
s best hope.
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