Region
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Second, the US should pursue its sometimes-valid foreign-policy objectives in the
region
through the United Nations Security Council.
But the repeated efforts of Britain, France, and the US to keep all Islamist governments out of power only block political maturation in the region, without actually succeeding or providing long-term benefits.
The
region
lags far behind its middle-income counterparts in science, math, technology innovation, entrepreneurship, small business development, and (therefore) job creation.
Finally, the
region
should address its exceptional vulnerability to environmental degradation and its overdependence on hydrocarbons, especially in view of the global shift to low-carbon energy.
The Muslim-majority
region
from West Africa to Central Asia is the world’s largest populous dry region, a 5,000-mile (8,000 kilometers) swath of water stress, desertification, rising temperatures, and food insecurity.
The Sunni-Shia divide, Assad’s political future, and doctrinal disputes are of decidedly lesser long-term importance to the
region
than the unmet need for quality education, job skills, advanced technologies, and sustainable development.
Though the deal does slow Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, it does not restrain – or even address – the regime’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, for which it has already spent billions of dollars and suffered crippling sanctions.
As a result, the framework agreement is creating strategic chaos in an already dysfunctional
region.
And that is precisely what countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia are doing, having established a joint Arab military force to fight Iranian influence in the region, as well as discreet security links with Israel, another self-declared victim of the framework agreement.
In order to bring some semblance of stability to the Middle East, the US must think beyond the framework nuclear agreement with Iran and develop, with all stakeholders, a collective security regime – an initiative that will require the US to regain the trust of its allies in the
region.
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US form a rectangle of relationships in South Asia, with India, China, and the US constituting a triangle that not only contains the South Asia region, but is also a major theater in an increasingly global struggle.
They point to the special role of the western alliance, and most of all of the European Union, in assuring peace and security in the Balkans, in promoting democratic nation-state building in the
region.
Failed states of south eastern Europe are being transformed into formal or informal protectorates implying deep involvement of Europe in the creation of security for the whole
region.
We do not really know what could make growth more inclusive, countries more competitive, and development more sustainable in each country and region; and we should not pretend that we do.
The revolutions of 1989 and 1991 in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union blanketed a huge
region
within months.
Hamas in PowerThe victory of the fundamentalist Hamas in the Palestinian elections will have far-reaching consequences for the region, some totally unexpected.
In a
region
full of paradoxes, the Hamas victory may have added another one: usually, when extremists on one side become stronger, it plays into the hands of extremists on the other side, producing a dangerous spiral effect.
According to modeling by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the US government’s Power Africa, an integrated energy market would save the
region
$32 billion in energy costs in the next decade.
Meanwhile, the Middle East remains a
region
mired in backwardness.
Assuring development of this
region
will be a long and difficult challenge, but one that needed to be embraced.
Moreover, other countries in the
region
will not use offensive force without approval by the United Nations Security Council, which the Russians and Chinese continue to block.
The only chance, in my view, is if countries in the
region
– Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates – call openly for US leadership.
The Arab League should publicly charge the Security Council with abdicating its responsibility for preserving international peace and security and call on countries with important interests in the
region
to join with them in taking action.
But a leader must choose, and Obama is making the wrong choice – for Syria, for the region, and for the US.
Latin American countries in the Amazon region, for example, are home to what can rightly be considered the world’s storehouse of biodiversity.
There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region, from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio station’s telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press.
Throughout the region, government officials shut out those they regard as troublemakers and manipulate procedures for issuing broadcast licenses to benefit political allies or silence independent voices.
Hundreds or thousands of people in a village
region
can be affected with every outbreak.
As before there were expressions of “deep regret,” a promise of “immediate investigation” and the explanation that dropped leaflets had warned families in the
region
to leave their homes.
The urgent need in Lebanon is that Israeli attacks stop, that Lebanon’s regular military forces control the southern
region
of the country, that Hezbollah cease as a separate fighting force, and future attacks against Israel be prevented.
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