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Its repercussions could be enormous, because the contradictory and erratic response of the United States to the coup could be interpreted as tacit encouragement for other would-be coup leaders elsewhere in the region, at least in Central America.
Ominous examples of the rising importance of the military in Latin American political affairs include the reinforcement of Plan Colombia and implementation of the Merida Initiative in Mexico and Central America, the reestablishment of the American Navy’s IV Fleet (deactivated in 1950), and the growing importance of the Southern Military Command in US foreign policy in the
region.
Against this background, the notion that reclaiming territory from ISIS will amount to freeing the
region
of extremist groups is clearly naive.
And, although this is the most severe precipitation to hit the
region
since 1911, the flooding was also the result of human error: the irresponsible and unplanned urbanization that has transformed India in recent decades.
Blinded by internecine domestic power struggles, they failed to see the great powers’ strategic gambits in the
region.
While most governments, with the exception of those in the region, were embarrassed but remained silent, protest groups were angry and loud, taking to the streets and, around Muroroa itself, even to the waters.
For example, experts might estimate with 90% confidence, based on available data and their own experience, that farmers’ average maize yields in a given
region
are 0.5-2 tons per hectare.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the
region'
s former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
But Dubai, with very little black gold of its own, has done more with less than any other state in the
region.
The shift is aimed at ensuring that the US plays “a larger and long-term role in shaping this region,” where it has long helped to maintain stability and contributed to unprecedented economic growth.
By visiting Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia, Obama reinforced earlier efforts to strengthen diplomatic and economic engagement with the Asia-Pacific
region.
Furthermore, America officially joined the East Asia Summit in 2011, easing concerns in the
region
about China’s increasingly aggressive posture in the South China Sea.
Likewise, America’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership and offers of economic engagement to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are the latest initiatives underscoring its determination to strengthen its economic ties in the
region.
Given the rising risk of conflict in Asia – owing to a toxic combination of rapid GDP growth, an arms race, historical resentments, rampant chauvinism, territorial disputes, and a lack of effective institutional arrangements for conflict resolution – Europe should welcome a stronger US presence in the
region.
The US rebalancing will also create an opportunity for Europe to play a greater role in an increasingly important
region.
The Obama administration seems to understand the potential benefits of such a “joint rebalancing,” with the EU-US statement on the Asia-Pacific
region
issued last July suggesting a move toward policy coordination.
At the moment, however, the US is offering Turkey – and the
region
– only incoherence and more empty promises.
The French and German economy ministers, Emmanuel Macron and Sigmar Gabriel, have recently produced a joint proposal for a €10 billion ($10.8 billion) fund to stabilize the
region.
The rest of the
region
wanted to emulate them.
In East Asia, the world’s most dynamic and dominant
region
in terms of future global economic development, confrontation is escalating between the key powers – China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan – over border issues, territorial claims, prestige, and unfinished historical business.
Europe, however, will play no part in the region, simply because any attempt to do so would place too much strain on its reach and resources.
Turkey is currently confronting the limits of its possibilities, while the EU finds that it can do very little in this
region
without Turkey.
The US must accept and candidly discuss the damaging consequences of its military, diplomatic, and political overreach – of a “war too far” that has brought the
region
to its current ugly impasse.
Likewise, it would be unwise for the US gratuitously to offer China a role in the affairs of a
region
that includes India itself – something that Obama appeared to do during his visit to China earlier this year, when he mentioned China as having a role to play in Kashmir.
The Mediterranean
region
is already beset by environmental distress and forced migration from conflict zones.
Unchecked climate change – which has already contributed to conflict – would spell disaster for the
region.
If a
region
can’t pay for its electricity, people will be cut off and left without heating.
WASHINGTON, DC – As corruption scandals rattle Latin America, many observers are asking if the
region
will ever shake off its legacy of weak institutions.
In a
region
long inured to impunity among political and economic elites, this amounts to a tectonic shift.
Doing nothing would mean Syria’s disintegration, divided in blood, with the countries around it destabilized and waves of terrorism rolling over the
region.
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