Region
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Yet in the MENA region, the opposite has happened: university graduates are far more likely to be unemployed than are workers with only a basic education.
Countries in the
region
thus need to focus on expanding broadband Internet access.
But ensuring sustained growth in the
region
will require improving its financial systems as well.
Outside of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, which have relatively advanced payment systems, the quality of financial services in the MENA
region
currently lags behind most of the rest of the world.
Seizing the opportunities that the digital economy offers the MENA
region
will require a big push.
It is a contradiction that belies what the Republican Party, which dominates the region, promotes as a “culture of life.”
Arab opposition to the very existence of a Jewish state in what the Arabs call “the Arab region” has been more sustained than Herzl or anyone of his generation -- nurtured on European ideas of humanism -- would have ever believed.
In his naivete, Herzl even thought that the Arab world would be grateful to the Jews for bringing modern technology to the
region.
Vast changes in America’s presence across the Asia-Pacific
region
are underway and are likely to continue.
So far, none of these changes have unsettled the
region.
As then-Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained to General Wesley Clark in 1991: “We learned that we can intervene militarily in the
region
with impunity, and the Soviets won’t do a thing to stop us… [We’ve] got about five to ten years to take out these old Soviet ‘surrogate’ regimes – Iraq, Syria, and the rest – before the next superpower [China] comes along to challenge us in the region.”
Like the US, Russia has a strong interest in stability in Syria and in defeating the Islamic State; but it has no interest in allowing the US to install its choice of regimes in Syria or elsewhere in the
region.
All of this would be taking place in a
region
that is already riven by crises and wars.
The latest US National Security Strategy, released last December, and National Defense Strategy, released in January, indicate that the US now views China as a “revisionist power” and is determined to counter Chinese efforts to “displace the US in the Indo-Pacific region.”
What has changed is our increased assertiveness in our efforts to ensure greater stability and human welfare in our region, evident in our advocacy of freedom, democracy, and accountability not only for ourselves, but also for others.
Turkey’s position on Iran’s nuclear program has been similarly clear: we are categorically opposed to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in our
region.
Military intervention would merely further complicate the issue, while creating new layers of conflict in our
region
and beyond.
Turkey’s internal transformation over the past decade has placed it in an ideal position to benefit the
region
– and thus the global community.
Cleaning up two such institutions – the public sector and the judiciary – should be a priority for many governments in the
region.
Violating its treaty obligations, Russia annexed Crimea and established separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas
region.
Neither dominating the politics of the
region
nor truly leading it, the US is a spectator in the unfolding Arab drama.
Meanwhile, US weakness has opened the door to Russia’s resumption of Cold War practices in the
region.
Indeed, growing cynicism in this regard is a dangerous trend,because this is the one issue that still appeals to the people of the Middle East and can help immensely in the Western powers’ battle to win hearts and minds in our
region.
Semih Tumen of the Central Bank of Turkey presented evidence regarding the impact of the 2.2 million Syrian refugees on the labor market in the border
region.
Fortunately, he declared, they have the “capability and wisdom” to build peace and security in the
region
through cooperation.
But Xi’s statement marked a significant departure from China’s long-standing position on America’s presence in the Asia-Pacific
region.
And concerned Southeast Asian countries have been entreating the US to remain in the
region
as a counterweight to China.
Asia is also the
region
where many of this century’s most influential countries – including China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, and the United States – interact.
One future is an Asia that is relatively familiar: a
region
whose economies continue to enjoy robust levels of growth and manage to avoid conflict with one another.
The question is this: Will twenty-first-century Asia resemble Europe – the dominant
region
of much of modern history – during the first half of the twentieth century, when it experienced two wars of unprecedented cost and destruction, or the second half, when tensions with the Soviet Union were effectively managed and Western Europe experienced unprecedented peace and prosperity?
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