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Hezbollah is, after all, a creature of Lebanon’s resistance to Israel’s 1982 invasion, now trying to reassert its influence at home and in the wider
region
by portraying itself as a champion of the Arab-Islamic cause, namely in Palestine.
It is now incumbent upon the Trump administration to make a clear-minded assessment of US interests in the region, and to prioritize its policies accordingly.
A New Chance for DarfurNEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY – As the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur
region
worsens and negotiaitions to end it drag on, an international consensus is emerging around a “muscular” policy based on public denunciation, severe economic sanctions, and, increasingly, threats of military force.
To anyone who recalls Danzig and the Sudetenland – the endless nationality claims and counter-claims that triggered World War II in the borderlands of Eastern Europe – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchism in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas
region
in 2014 has a disturbingly familiar ring to it.
The incremental approach to the
region
taken by the last two administrations, under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has meant that the US has failed to keep pace with events.
The Obama administration, in particular, often hesitated to expand its role, anticipating a time when the US would not be absorbed in a
region
that, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s line about the Balkans, had produced more history than it has consumed.
As if that were not enough, the US will also need to rethink its policy toward Egypt, which, until recently, often made important contributions to diplomatic efforts in the
region.
The Alliance would not be happy to apply Article 5 of the NATO charter, which would oblige its members to fight for Israel if it were attacked by any of its many potential enemies in an endemically dangerous
region.
The Initiative also envisages the promotion of regional defense reforms and the improvement of interoperability among military forces in the
region.
Not surprisingly, then, of all the states in the region, it is Israel that has established the closest links with NATO.
European companies could be given tax breaks or other incentives to establish assembly plants in Nigeria, thereby creating jobs in the
region
and further expanding Africa’s consumer base.
European leaders seeking to escape austerity and stagnation should pursue new opportunities for recovery in this fast-growing
region.
Will it change its often-aggressive behavior in the region, or will it continue to view the South China Sea mainly in terms of US-China competition?
With livelihood insurance, a private insurer would pay a stream of income to a policyholder if an index of average income in the insured person’s occupation and
region
declines substantially.
What makes the demands for reform more pressing this time are ominous developments in Egypt, the region, and in the wider world.
LONDON – The war in Georgia has clearly exposed the security vacuum in the surrounding region, as well as a lot of raw nerves.
Ukraine has its own potentially separatist
region
in Crimea, and the country’s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).
In the Asia-Pacific
region
alone, getting more women into full-time employment in higher-paid, higher-productivity sectors could add $4.5 trillion per year to GDP, 12% above the current trajectory.
From 1990 to 2005, when HIV was infecting some two million people a year in Sub-Saharan Africa, the rate of new TB cases in the
region
quadrupled.
But who really knew much about this latest foray into a troubled
region
by the UN chief?
Russia, the great power of Kazakhstan’s neighborhood, has unsettled the
region
with its invasion of Ukraine, in which it illegally annexed Crimea and started a war in the eastern Donbas
region.
Though Kazakhstan’s government, like other young states in the region, has lagged in advancing democracy and human rights, it has at least avoided foreclosing them entirely.
Fortunately, the
region
is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s, owing to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.
Since then, governments across the
region
have resorted to crude repression to keep public discontent and political opponents at bay.
But, while a diversified economy presupposes more space for private enterprise, governments in the region, especially during boom times, have tended to favor politically connected firms, and blocked those they view as a threat.
External imbalances will pose the largest challenge for the
region.
After all, the single most important impediment to good governance in the
region
has been its lack of self-governance: The region’s political institutions have been crippled as a result of repeated US and European intervention dating back to World War I, and in some places even earlier.
The West also armed the entire
region
through hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons sales.
The US established military bases throughout the region, and repeated failed operations by the CIA have left massive supplies of armaments in the hands of violent foes of the US and Europe.
So, when Western leaders ask Arabs and others in the
region
why they can’t govern themselves, they should be prepared for the answer: “For a full century, your interventions have undermined democratic institutions (by rejecting the results of the ballot box in Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, and elsewhere); stoked repeated and now chronic wars; armed the most violent jihadists for your cynical bidding; and created a killing field that today stretches from Bamako to Kabul.”
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