Region
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Both the US and Japan fostered prosperity – the seedbed for peace – in the
region.
It is also about turning an area that accounts for 40% of the world economy and one-third of global trade into a
region
of lasting peace and prosperity for our children and theirs.
This is why I support America’s strategic “rebalancing” to enhance peace and security in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Adding these partners to the central pillar of the US-Japan alliance will strengthen stability throughout the
region.
These enhanced legislative foundations should make cooperation between the US military and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces even stronger, and the alliance still more solid, providing credible deterrence in the service of peace in the
region.
The new Defense Cooperation Guidelines between the US and Japan will serve the same purpose, and help secure peace in the
region
for years to come.
Japan’s power and longstanding antagonistic relationship with China reinforces the credibility of Japanese security commitments toward Vietnam and other countries in the
region.
Japan’s enhanced security ties with Vietnam and other like-minded Asian countries (such as Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, and India), may lead to the emergence of such a resilient network, which can serve as a vital hedge against declining US commitment to the
region.
In Africa’s Sahel region, millions of people are facing hunger for the third time since 2005.
Lack of rain in the
region
and volatile global food prices have made a bad situation worse.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development sees enormous potential in Africa’s agricultural sector, which experienced 4.8% growth in 2009, compared to 3.8% in the Asia-Pacific
region
and only 1.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Given that agriculture amounts to roughly 30% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP, and accounts for more than 60% of employment in most African countries, the sector’s development could reduce poverty in the
region
substantially.
One is based on a right-wing fantasy about resurrecting the pre-World War II Intermarium project, which would give Poland an important leadership role in the
region.
By speaking in Poland, which has traditionally been seen as a vocal critic of Russia in the region, Trump may be hoping to remove suspicion.
ISIS – with its transnational commitment to a caliphate that encompasses vast swaths of territory from western Syria to central Iraq – exemplifies the interrelated nature of the challenges facing the region, and the threat it poses highlights the urgent need for a new framework for action in the Middle East.
Iraq’s location on a major fault line between Sunnis and Shia – whose sectarian rivalry has become the main axis of confrontation in the
region
– has been a source of instability in the country for decades.
In the Vidharbha
region
of Maharashtra, which has the highest number of suicides, the area under Bt cotton has increased from 0.2 million hectares in 2004 to 2.88 million hectares in 2007.
The manufacturing sector, too, could be built up; at the moment, the kingdom has only small-scale domestic manufacturing, despite being one of the largest markets in the
region
for cars, machinery, and other capital goods.
For many, the extremists who criticized the Brotherhood and other Islamist parties for choosing a democratic route to power will have been vindicated, and a new wave of violence in the
region
may begin.
His speech in Cairo in 2009 – which called for “A New Beginning” in the
region
– inspired many in the Arab world.
With or without a nuclear deal, Iran, which was disinvited from the Geneva II conference on Syria, because of its rejection of the conference’s US-inspired terms of reference, aspires to challenge America’s policies and represent an alternative path for the
region.
Not only does it advocate an Israeli presence in the West Bank (the Biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria); it also links territorial concessions to the Palestinians to the neutralization of existential threats emanating from the outer circle of the
region.
By destabilizing the region, the war enabled the rise of the Islamic State, which at its height occupied a substantial slice of Iraqi territory, beheading its opponents, attempting genocide against the Yazidi minority, and spreading terrorism around the world.
With Iran’s nuclear program advancing and political uncertainty looming over the region, Israel supports a military operation against Iran in 2012, before, in the words of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, it crosses the “immunity zone,” beyond which intervention would be futile.
While North Korea had done much over the preceding years to warrant a more critical eye, in retrospect these policies set back prospects for peace and stability in the
region.
If, for example, one
region
or country in a future European currency area is badly affected by, say, a relative fall in the prices of their exports, and workers refuse to either move to where there are jobs, or adjust their salaries (downward) to the new situation, a rise in unemployment is unavoidable.
But, as the so-called Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) reaches its climax, the SPLM, based in the autonomous
region
of South Sudan, has abandoned all pretense that unity with the North and the government in Khartoum is either possible or desirable.
Matters were subsequently complicated by a separate conflict – this time between Muslims – over resources in the western Darfur
region.
It is the prospect of a proxy war that makes all the unsettled issues – the division of oil revenue, the demarcation of the border, and the fate of the adjoining Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile
region
– so potentially explosive.
For them, and for the cause of lasting peace in the region, that could be an immensely valuable start to the new year.
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