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Today, the West is reacting to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, just as it responded to the annexation of Wallachia in 1853 and the blockade of West Berlin in 1948.
Similarly, it led Bush to his declared objective of cutting imports from the
region
by 75% over the next two decades.
The world’s dependence on Persian Gulf oil means that all countries have an interest in maintaining stability in that region, while improving energy efficiency and increasing the diversity of their overall energy supplies.
While Russia needs to integrate itself with Europe’s remaining islands of innovation (Germany, above all), it is the growth potential of the Asia-Pacific
region
that will determine the country’s future.
Not long ago, the Baltic Sea
region
was almost completely dependent on fossil fuels from particular suppliers.
In the Baltic Sea region, we have already adjusted the legal framework to reflect our priorities, built energy links and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, invested in relevant market instruments, and secured a reliable energy supply.
Such an approach would be enhanced considerably by the deployment in the
region
of submarines and antisubmarine patrol aircraft, an area in which the US and Japan are decades ahead of China.
Taking Safety LittorallyPASADENA – In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal
region.
For one such area, New York City, an alternative has been proposed: massive storm-surge barriers across the entrance to the harbor
region
that could be closed when a major storm approaches.
Indeed, in the last round of trade negotiations, the Uruguay Round, the world's poorest region, sub-Saharan Africa, was actually made worse off.
The 25-year tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the
region
of Nagorno-Karabakh is a prime example.
Why, then, do Latin American economists seem to share a cautious – even pessimistic – mood about future growth and convergence in the region, whereas most Asian economists, while conceding that further structural reforms are needed, believe strongly that Asia will continue to converge rather rapidly?
With the
region
seemingly being sucked deeper into a vortex of permanent conflict, it is easy to believe that only dictators or religious bigots could impose any stability.
But to think that is to forget past progressive uprisings, such as in Beirut in 2005, Algiers and Tehran in 2009, and the Arab Spring that began in Tunisia and spread throughout the
region
in 2011.
To understand where the Middle East is going, we need to look further back to comprehend how the
region
arrived at this point.
With the latest great-power interventions by the US and Russia, many are reminded of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between Great Britain and France to draw new national borders in the
region
and divide it into spheres of influence.
The
region
does not need new borders and new protectorates, but rather better states, built to be resilient against ethnic divisions and less vulnerable to external influence.
The goal must be to reach a grand bargain that takes into account the major issues dividing the region, including the status of the Palestinians and Kurds, and creates conditions for viable political settlements in Syria and Iraq.
It made a wretched start at independence when the industrial
region
of Transdnistria – populated by Russian and Ukrainian speakers who feared that the majority of Moldovans, who are of Romanian descent, planned closer ties with Romania – declared independence.
Starting from the 1950s and 1960s, the US began importing these products from East Asia and registered a trade deficit with the
region.
However, while China’s trade surplus with the US rapidly increased, the contribution of the East Asian
region
to the US trade deficit declined.
Many in the
region
are now worried that they will reap little from this fleeting period of industrialization, and that current demographic, social, and economic trends could lead to security and humanitarian crises in the future.
The
region
can still harness its demographic dividend, but it is now in a race against the machines.
Moreover, Africa will experience by far the largest growth in energy requirements of any world
region
in the next 50 years.
So, not only has China become central to every aspect of the global financial and economic system, it has now demonstrated its strategic effectiveness in a
region
traditionally outside its orbit.
In fact, whereas economic growth in Latin America is often perceived as being very unequal – which explains the shift to the left – recent United Nations data puts the
region
in first place among all developing-country areas.
First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the
region
is increasingly vulnerable to the so-called “Dutch disease,” whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial markets.
The paradox is that while anxiety over China’s growing assertiveness has returned the US to the center of Asian geopolitics and enabled it to strengthen its security arrangements in the region, this has not led to action aimed at quelling China’s expansionary policies.
It could also destabilize a fragile region, sparking fresh wars with neighboring Somalia and Eritrea.
The Chernobyl Forum findings should have brought relief, for they show that the specter haunting the
region
is not invincible radiation, but conquerable poverty.
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