Region
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For example, when Moldova requests membership in the European Union, Russia may move to annex its breakaway
region
of Transnistria, where Russian troops have been stationed for two decades.
Thanks to agreements between the rebels and the government that Nelson Mandela and South African Vice President Jacob Zuma helped broker, Burundi can now either turn decisively away from civil strife, or risk a return to the machete politics that have mauled Africa's Great Lakes
region
for a decade.
Given this, the legacy of the Cold War should give way to issues like ensuring that China’s rise remains peaceful, preventing the current chaos in the Arab world from spreading beyond the region, limiting the scope of nuclear-weapons proliferation, and contributing to global efforts to address climate change, water scarcity, food security, and cyber-crime.
The biggest problem areas are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central Asia.
Although the
region
is home to just 8% of the world’s population, one in three of all homicides occur there; and one in four of all homicides occur in just four countries: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia.
Indeed, despite such poignant personal stories and the sheer scale of the carnage, homicide is rarely a subject of public debate in the region, not least because most victims hail predominantly from the region’s invisible, neglected classes.
Unfortunately, advocates of aggressive policing have no interest in breaking the cycle of violence, and they have dismissed evidence-based public policies that could transform lives throughout the
region.
But, from its newly built perches in the South China Sea, China is better positioned not only to sustain air and sea patrols in the region, but also to advance its strategy of projecting power across the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific.
He has become a nearly revered figure in his country, and large segments of Western public opinion believe that his political demise represents a potentially fatal blow to any hope of progress in the region, even as he remains hated in large parts of the Arab and Muslim world.
Sharon’s transformation from villain to hero within the space of a mere few years is a source of fascination for his people, the region, and the world – all the more so because his ultimate intentions will remain a subject of endless dispute among historians tomorrow and among politicians claiming to be his faithful heirs today.
Based on current trends, there will be 15 million more people living without electricity in the
region
in 15 years.
In Africa, that would mean empowering the most disadvantaged people, while making the
region
richer and greener.
While many have touted Africa’s success in maintaining a 5-6% average GDP growth rate during the past decade, this masks the reality that by 2005, sub-Saharan Africa was little better off than it was a quarter-century earlier: it was still the world’s poorest region, with just over half of its population living on less than $1.25 a day in purchasing parity terms.
Despite being a low-income region, India and other South Asian countries have adopted the growth patterns of middle- to high-income countries.
Putin’s main objectives now are the removal of Ukraine’s blockade of Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway
region
of Transnistria and Ukrainian “federalization” (a euphemism for the Kremlin’s back-door strategy to gain control over the country’s eastern and southern regions).
Venezuela is high on its list, having already purchased more than three-quarters of the $14.5 billion in arms sold by Russia in the
region
from 2001 to 2013.
The rest – Yanukovych’s renunciation of the EU agreement, the popular uprising that ousted him in response, two invasions by Russia, and thousands of people killed in the country’s eastern Donbas
region
– is history.
Compassionate MeritocracySINGAPORE – More than two decades ago, political leaders in Singapore put forward the idea of “Asian values” to assert that liberal democratic principles and practices were not suited to the region, sparking an important debate that centered on the universality of human rights.
As the international community works toward securing a durable peace in the region, its leaders would be wise to remember the lessons of history.
It was remarkably stable, providing the
region
with a peaceful foundation for hundreds of years.
A commission set up by the League of Nations and headed by a Swedish diplomat crisscrossed the
region
in search of a fair solution, but ultimately failed to find a neat dividing line.
Since then, through successive wars and revolutions, one truth has remained paramount: The Ottoman mosaic provided no clear dividing lines that would permit a smooth reordering of the
region
into states or entities with homogenous ethnic, national, or religious identities.
The country is host to some of the world’s oldest Christian communities, which, though much smaller than they once were, retain undisputed historic rights to the
region.
But while the old multicultural trading cities of Aleppo and Mosul might never truly recover and blossom again, that should not be used as an excuse to carve up the
region
along new lines, at the cost of rivers of blood.
Trump may reverse President Barack Obama’s strategic “pivot” toward Asia, leaving the
region
in chaos.
Similarly, such a networked approach could put Asian countries in a much stronger position to restrain the US if the Trump administration took destabilizing actions in the region, such as by exacerbating tensions with China.
China, Europe, and even the Gulf
region
will not be swayed by Trump’s moves.
And insofar as “benign neglect” might be a fair description, it is a positive one, characterized by the absence of geopolitical tension or instability in the
region.
If that is to change, the
region
will need to rediscover the spirit of the 1994 Summit of the Americas, where US President Bill Clinton and his Latin American counterparts set out a grand vision for the hemisphere.
The TAP would also embrace almost half of Latin America’s population and include around 50% of its combined GDP, giving the
region
the central role that it lacks in the TPP or the TTIP.
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