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With Suharto’s accession to power, Indonesia shifted almost overnight from being a strong voice for neutrality and anti-imperialism, actively courting the attention of the Soviet Union and Communist China, to becoming a more compliant partner with the US, which now saw Indonesia as a major stabilizing force in a volatile
region.
Nearly 120 years ago, Winston Churchill described the futility of warfare in the region: “Financially it is ruinous.
Moreover, trillions of dollars have been wasted, with the few positive effects of the US-led military intervention already beginning to fade, and its many adverse consequences continuing to destabilize the
region.
The Triumphs and Struggles of Arab StartupsDUBAI – The recent STEP conference in Dubai – the biggest startup conference for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region
– attracted a lot of buzz.
According to one study, in 2011, family businesses represented up to 70% of the MENA private-sector economy – a higher share than in any other
region.
The conventional wisdom of drawing on friends, family, and fools for new business endeavors seems to translate in the MENA
region
as, “If you are not a friend or family, you must be a fool.”
A second major hindrance to innovative entrepreneurship in the MENA
region
lies in the way governments manage their critical role as clients.
The strain on Syria’s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider
region.
What is new, and encouraging, about the events of the last month is that Russia has found enough common ground with the US – in their mutual anxiety about the rising influence of radical Islam in an increasingly fragmented and volatile
region
– to be prepared at last to do some squeezing.
Since 1995, when China occupied Mischief Reef, a maritime feature claimed by the Philippines, the EU has encouraged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to strengthen its code of conduct for the
region.
Ma’s constructive approach to reducing tensions in the
region
would benefit all parties concerned.
Vieira de Mello - who has had a distinguished career in the UN system and is a brilliant diplomat - must be willing and able to draw on his own
region
and on others to make sure that the UN human rights system serves the victims rather than the violators.
Unfortunately for the region, it has proved to be anything but that.
And the new geography of power implied by the shift in the world’s economic center of gravity from the transatlantic
region
toward the Asia-Pacific
region
does not conform to the conceptual map of twentieth-century – let alone nineteenth-century – geopolitics.
Yet by reneging on the nuclear deal with Iran, Trump has made war in the
region
more likely.
The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia – an export-led
region
that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.
After all, Asia has been on such a roll in recent years that far too many believe that the
region
can shrug off almost anything that the rest of the world dishes out.
As a result, when the shock of 2008-2009 hit, every economy in the
region
either experienced a sharp slowdown or fell into outright recession.
After tumbling sharply in 2008-2009, the export share of emerging Asia is back up to its earlier high of around 44% of GDP – leaving the
region
just as exposed to an external-demand shock today as it was heading into the subprime crisis three years ago.
As was true three years ago, many hope for an Asian “decoupling” – that this high-flying
region
will be immune to global shocks.
This is Asia’s second wake-up call in three years, and this time the
region
needs to take the warning seriously.
But that is not to say America has no interest in the
region.
To be sure, China has made itself a major player in every
region
of the world, by deploying a combination of trade, aid, and investment – in particular, by pursuing major infrastructure investment projects in strategic locations throughout the developing world, as part of its “one belt, one road” strategy.
Many Europeans share this belief, but, as the EU considers entering the fray of Middle East peace talks, it must respond to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s jibe that in the
region
“you are payers, not players.”
Between 1995 and 1999, it spent roughly €3.4 billion in the region, to which the European Investment Bank added a further €4.8 billion in loans.
I believe that a stability pact for the
region
could help to match what was achieved a decade ago in the Balkans.
Europe already feared that rising youth unemployment in the
region
would create dangerous instability along Europe’s southern flank.
Europe’s governments are now much criticized for propping up autocratic Arab regimes, but their real failure has been one of omission: the lack of economic cooperation and development assistance offered to the
region.
Yet, far from taking any action against a country that he has long assailed as a trade cheater, Trump is helping make China great again, including by withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and shrinking US influence in the Asia-Pacific
region.
The
region
as a whole continues to lose weight in world politics, largely because it lacks a coherent, common project.
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