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In recalibrating their WMD development and testing strategies, North Korea’s leaders hope to offset the military and technological superiority of the US-South Korea alliance, thereby attaining greater economic and political leverage in the region, and, most important, guaranteeing the regime’s survival.
Bush, who created the command, gave the US Department of Defense new powers to work on civilian issues in Africa and to expand its military partnerships with governments in the
region.
Obama isn’t likely to say whether he’ll scale back the US military role in the region, or whether America’s growing reliance on African oil is the real reason – not Obama’s heritage – for wooing Africans.
In the Asia-Pacific region, hundreds of migrants and refugees have drowned this year in the Bay of Bengal or while trying to reach Australia.
Second, the leaders of every major country in the
region
– including for the first time the US and Russia – met later in November at the East Asia Summit, hosted by Indonesia in Bali, to discuss security and economic issues.
More wide-ranging and substantial than the usual bilateral bromides, Obama announced his “deliberate and strategic decision” to have the US play a “larger and longer-term role” in shaping the Asia-Pacific
region
as it draws down its forces in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
He called US presence and missions in the Asia-Pacific
region
a “top priority,” to be insulated from any defense spending cuts.
It is important that Australia and others in the
region
do push back against the kind of hard Chinese nationalist sentiment that has rightly jangled nerves in the South China Sea and, in their defense policy and alliance relationships, hedge against worst-case scenarios, however unlikely they may appear now.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a retreat to their native
region
in the event of the regime’s collapse and were trying to expand the area under their control.
Chile’s government set a precedent in the
region
by meticulously mapping citizens’ priorities on the environment and climate.
Other countries in the
region
might follow suit.
Conflicts in the
region
have driven more than a million people into Uganda, and the country is feeling the strain.
Yes, there are important matters to discuss, notably Iran’s nuclear ambitions; but several countries in Iran’s neighborhood already possess nuclear weapons, threatening the entire
region.
Israel’s concern that the
region
will grow more hostile will become a self-fulfilling prophecy if new democracies see the Israeli government impeding steps toward a viable and just solution.
Tomorrow’s Middle East will not be the same as it was a mere two months ago, but the shape the
region
will ultimately take is unknown.
One is careless anthropology: Belgium's classification of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi, which reified a distinction that had not existed before, still haunts Africa's Great Lakes
region.
Westernize the Black Sea RegionThe bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea
region
on the front pages of newspapers once again.
This rising violence is also a wake-up call for the West, highlighting the need for a new Euro-Atlantic strategy in a vitally important
region
that lies at the crossroads of Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East.
Indeed, the Black Sea
region
is the Euro-Atlantic community's eastern frontier with the wider Middle East.
For the first time, a country in the
region
is matching its aspirations with the concrete steps needed to become a viable candidate for eventual membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
The Black Sea
region'
s long-term stability and integration with the West is thus critically important to the long-term energy security strategy of EU and NATO members.
What should a new bold yet realistic EU and NATO outreach strategy for the Black Sea
region
look like?
Clearly, the
region'
s countries are weaker and further behind previous candidates for Western integration.
If the EU and NATO decide to launch a bold outreach strategy for the region, they will be able to draw on existing tools, conceptual talent, and practical experience.
An EU that includes Sofia and Bucharest, and that is on track with Ankara, will be well positioned to engage the wider
region.
The EU also needs to put meat on the bones of its new Neighborhood Policy, while NATO must apply new mechanisms for strengthening ties with the
region.
If countries in the
region
embrace the idea, a network of current EU and NATO members could step forward with projects and assistance aimed at promoting a Black Sea identity and community.
Recent events in Georgia remind us that resolving the
region'
s "frozen conflicts"- i.e., those in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, of Transdneistria in Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan - must be a priority.
But the long-term peace and stability needed to advance economic and political reform in the
region
will also require either a change in Russian behavior or a reduction in Russian influence.
Developing a new Euro-Atlantic strategy for the Black Sea
region
must start with the democracies of North America and Europe recognizing their moral and political stake in the outcome.
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