Region
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Fuzzy, feel-good projects to foster human rights and good governance in an obscure
region
next-door must wait.
The contract, awarded again to a secretive American firm, will keep US planes flying over Afghanistan, which is the paramount American goal in the
region.
Though fragile and violent, Kyrgyzstan is the most democratic state in the region, and it could be America’s natural ally.
A recent report from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations that parses the past decade of US defense spending in Central Asia found that, in 2007 alone, the US provided $145 million in military aid to the
region.
In Xinjiang, the locals willingly participated in the political redistribution of land and wealth and looked forward to the end of a three-way civil war that had trapped the
region
between competing Russian, Chinese Communist, and Chinese Nationalist interests.
Simultaneously, continuing ethnic tensions between Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and Han Chinese threatened to tear the
region
apart along local and tribal lines.
Compounded by the deepening integration of the
region
through Chinese migration and extractive development policies, Uyghur protests erupted throughout the late 1990s, eventually leading to isolated bombings, attacks on Uyghur sympathizers to Chinese rule, and violent responses to Chinese police actions against illegal social gatherings and activities.
This will mean fewer sources of information for a government that hopes to build support for its development goals in the
region.
Millions of people in Southeast Asia venture to the Middle East to work, but millions more cross borders within the
region.
Indeed, throughout the region, warring parties are relying on sectarian identity politics to mobilize support, further polarizing populations along religious, ethnic, and ideological lines.
Indeed, as political leaders choose military repression over engagement, they will increasingly lose ground to groups like the Islamic State, the only entities in the
region
offering a clear – albeit brutal, and regressive – vision of the future.
But averting further catastrophic violence in the
region
will require that governments go back to basics, introduce inclusive political processes, end state-sanctioned violence, ensure due process, and address socioeconomic injustices.
Otherwise, violence will engulf the
region
and far beyond.
It has pursued manifestly expansionist territorial claims, most notably in the South China Sea, and shown a clear determination to resist the indefinite continuation of American dominance in the
region.
The stability of the Great Lakes
region
of Africa, perhaps that continent’s most violent area, will depend on the success of its transition and reconstruction.
The EU has money and the SCO organization, most of whose members border Afghanistan, has trained personnel and direct experience in the
region.
Perhaps inevitably, the SCO – and Russia and China as its leading members – regards NATO’s increased presence in the
region
with some mistrust.
Through the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), Brazil is helping to integrate the
region
politically, economically, socially, and culturally.
South America is becoming a
region
where war is unthinkable – what the political scientist Karl Deutsch once called a “security community.”
Indeed, the weakened Russia that will be Putin’s legacy will then also lose the Northern Caucasus and the Volga
region
to their growing Muslim populations.
The Bush Administration probably launched its war against Iraq because it intended to make the country a new base for long-term military operations in the Gulf
region.
The areas where this new and old left can make a difference include improving anti-poverty programs, expanding housing and property rights, effective land reform, developing education, science, and technology, and, perhaps most importantly, strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in a
region
where they have been woefully absent for decades.
The new left, if it stays the course on modernization and reform, can be a boon to the
region.
Mortgages in Swiss francs and car loans in Japanese yen have been common throughout the
region.
On one hand, these programs help promote stability by supporting the parent banks active in the
region.
But its effect across the Arab world has been profound, especially among a younger generation that has lost hope and respect for the
region'
s secular authorities.
Obama has sought, with some success, to marshal a multinational coalition to confront the Islamic State; most important, he has induced cooperation from countries in the
region
that, afraid to speak and act clearly, had hoped that putting their heads in the sand would make the threat go away.
With the end of the Cold War, China had two options concerning India: to regard it as a natural ally, together with Russia, in building up an alternative to American dominance in the region, or to identify it as a potential adversary.
The crisis then spills over borders: investors overreact and withdraw their money from the entire
region.
Indeed, since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster last year, security in Sinai has deteriorated, and the
region
has become fertile ground for Islamic extremism.
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