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That will require repairing and improving damaged infrastructure, generating economic prosperity, running efficient social services, and taming the unrest in the delta
region.
The Russian military has intervened in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, ruthlessly bombed civilians and rebel groups in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and brutalized Georgia and Chechnya.
Meanwhile, with the exception of Slovenia, the democratic transformation in the post-Yugoslav
region
remains uneasy.
The definitive end of what remains of Yugoslavia may – at least today – pose no danger of war, but the Muslim Sandjak
region
will now be divided by state boundaries, and Albanian extremists, with their dreams of a Greater Albania, believe their influence in a separate Montenegro will be reinforced with a yes vote on independence.
With independence, the extremists would gain a territorial base from which to undermine Macedonia, southern Montenegro, and southern Serbia, jeopardizing stability in the entire
region.
The best way to capitalize on the people of a country or
region
is through social equity.
Many of those arrested and prosecuted hail from Xinjiang, an autonomous
region
in the northwest of the country that is home to a large and restive Muslim population.
Last October, the Fund estimated that growth in the
region
would reach 3.2% this year; now, it says that growth will barely be positive.
But if the international crisis lasts longer than the first half of 2010, all bets are off, and Colombia will struggle to find its economic footing in a
region
devastated by generalized contraction.
Only if the agricultural sector’s fundamental inadequacies are addressed can the
region
truly escape famine’s blight.
The chemical attack allegedly carried out last week by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Douma, the last rebel-held town in the Eastern Ghouta region, shows just how dangerous that prospect is for Syria and the world.
The army is losing dozens of men every week and facing growing disciplinary problems from its Pashtun ethnic soldiers, who hail from the border
region.
China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea – countries that have long supported Venezuela economically and militarily – would likely make deeper inroads in the region, posing a permanent source of strategic tension that could even open the door to terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
How many Bastilles will ultimately fall in the region, and at what pace, no one can say.
The United States managed to get it right, albeit very slowly, whereas many European countries erred on the side of the status quo for a much longer time, if not systematically, as they refused to see that the
region
could be evolving in a direction contrary to what they deemed to be in their strategic interest.
The most developed regions of Europe and North America are closest to gender parity, while the still-developing
region
of South Asia has the furthest to go.
But countries could match gains in the best-performing economy in their
region.
But is the
region
making the most this opportunity?
Both were necessary, but, with few exceptions, the
region
is not using the commodity windfall to do what it must: improve technological capacities sufficiently to ensure that future economic growth does not depend entirely on the fickle furtunes of finite natural resources.
The modern sense of building a pan-Asian community began with the traumatic East Asian financial and economic crisis of 1997, when all the countries of the Asia-Pacific
region
learned the hard way that national reforms and protections could turn out to be woefully inadequate.
In the interest of regional peace, both major powers must stop letting historical resentments obstruct a more harmonious and prosperous future for the Asia-Pacific
region.
The kingdom has long provided financial support to Egypt, Jordan, and other countries in the region, so this shift will put pressure on those governments to pursue private-sector growth to improve their own countries’ economic performance.
As it stands, the Arab world is stuck between an unsustainable economic and political status quo and the inclusive, merit-based economic system that less myopic people in the
region
know must replace it.
In the Philippines, where 60% of GDP is generated by industries and associated services in the Laguna Lake
region
of Metro Manila, pollution and siltation has already reduced the lake’s depth by one third.
But, to hear it from Chinese officials, China is an aggrieved partner in the
region.
But does this behavior make China stronger in the
region?
A Taliban victory there, the advocates of the surge had warned, would radicalize the entire
region
and create a domino effect, with Islamic insurgencies unleashed across Central Asia.
It is a corridor through which it can secure its interests in Pakistan, a traditional ally, and ensure its access to vital natural resources in the
region.
But this does not mean that a Taliban victory or an Afghan crisis that spirals out of control is no threat to the Kremlin’s standing in Central Asia, a
region
it considers its strategic backyard.
In East Asia, a host of countries produce components for assembly in China (or elsewhere in the region) and subsequent re-export; in Central and Eastern Europe, a similar phenomenon occurs with Germany as the hub; and, of course, in North America, both Canada and Mexico are increasingly integrated into the US market.
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