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Palestinian militants from Gaza – an active arena of Israeli-Palestinian confrontation since Hamas gained control in 2007 – and jihadi terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda and the larger “global jihad” network penetrated Sinai, exploiting the government’s neglect of the
region
and inflaming the local population’s feelings of disenfranchisement.
To this end, Israeli leaders expect Egypt’s government to reestablish its authority in Sinai, and, despite the peace treaty’s provisions, have agreed to Egyptian requests to increase its military presence in the
region.
Two final factors include how soon the eurozone economy bottoms out (there have been some recent signs of stabilization, but the monetary union’s chronic problems remain unresolved), and whether Middle East tensions and the threat of nuclear proliferation in the
region
– and responses to that threat by the US and Israel – escalate or are successfully contained.
No
region
of the world is immune to the impact of CO2 emissions.
These are important goals for a
region
like Latin America and the Caribbean, where one in four adults is obese – a trend that has worsened over the last decade.
France, Germany and other core countries will probably try for a greater economic and political unification which will, in time, make this
region
almost indistinguishable from a nation state.
The northernmost region, Somaliland, situated strategically at the opening to the Red Sea and home to roughly 3.5 million of Somalia’s 10 million people, is more or less autonomous and stable.
An independent Somaliland could be a force for stability and good governance in an otherwise hopeless
region.
Vital issues are at stake: the scramble for oil;China’s robust presence in Sudan; the West’s desire to see a mostly Christian state break the contiguity of Muslim regimes – and the consequent threat of Islamic radicalism – in the region; the regional distribution of the Nile’s waters; and the possibility that independence for the South might lead to Sudan’s total dismemberment along ethnic and religious lines.
Anyone, especially in the region, who attempts to parse the group’s objectives – in order, for example, to support its anti-Shia aims, if not its methods – does not belong in the fight.
The frontier
region
between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the main theater of the “war on terror.”
After that, China will be able to keep its exchange rate pegged only by slavishly following US interest-rate policy, which makes no sense for such a large and diverse
region.
Back then, parliament was seen as a means to bridge the divides of caste, religion, and
region.
Moreover, the Maldives sits astride critical shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean, making it vital to security in the
region.
Will India intervene militarily, as Nasheed and other Maldivian opposition leaders have requested, or will it allow Yameen to continue to enable China to pursue its strategic objectives in the
region?
Because the northern
region
of Greece is also formally known as Macedonia, the two countries ended up in a multi-decade naming dispute.
In many respects, Iran is perhaps the most interesting country in the region, with the greatest potential for development leading to - not to a Western-style democracy - but greater opening and liberalization.
Today, there are many more women doctors in Iran than under the Shah, and the number of women dying at childbirth is among the lowest in the
region.
Iran, as a consequence, has one of the lowest birth rates in the
region.
Jerusalem’s contested status has implications for the entire region, and has been one of the main obstacles in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Indeed, anyone interested in bringing calm to the
region
should focus on Jerusalem.
A new East African NCD Alliance – a loose coalition of civil-society organizations – has been created to tackle the challenge in that
region.
Rhetoric aside, Israel – like other US allies in the Middle East – is worried about America’s gradual withdrawal from the region, a policy shift that has allowed Russia to regain lost influence there.
It is not up to Israel to prevent Russia from selling missiles and air-defense systems to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime or attempting to regain a dominant role in the
region.
If Russia has created a linkage between Eastern Europe and the Middle East, America’s allies in the
region
expect their superpower friend to make it work in their favor, not to allow it to undermine further an already-delicate regional security balance.
Kurds in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, for example, certainly feel more secure having their own soldiers, the Peshmerga, and have proven to be a better fighting force as a result.
Foreign investment from within and outside the
region
has altered the structure of domestic economies.
Other countries in the region, and beyond, should embrace the Arab Spring.
The initiative should also encourage free movement of goods and people within the region, by lifting the customs restrictions and complicated procedures that hinder bilateral and multilateral trade.
The real question is whether Israel’s leadership is capable of using new, non-military tools to address the anti-Israeli rage that has gained momentum across the
region
in the wake of the Arab Spring.
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