Region
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The EU sought to build a partnership of economic and political cooperation in the Mediterranean region, for example, in which financial assistance and trade liberalization would be contractually linked to progress in advancing human rights and developing democratic institutions.
It is a grave mistake to think of Russia, like the Ottoman Empire of a century ago, as a "sick man of Europe," incapable of maintaining its strategic and commercial interests, and to regard its traditional allies in the
region
as available for anyone to poach.
Mixed marriages abound;Russian is the
region'
s lingua franca;Russian businesses (like Gazprom) dominate.
Turkey sees its growing influence in the
region
as a card to play in bargaining for EU membership.
Uncertain governments in the
region
think oil as a magic bullet with which to buy prosperity and social peace without hard work and risky reforms.
Oil sales will not help people in the
region
for many years; meanwhile, for many people in the ruined economies of the Caucasus, life is no less harsh than in war-torn Chechnya.
But although Russia's role in the
region
has decreased, cooperation with Russia is essential if the Transcaucasian states are to succeed.
The value of money coming from Russia to the
region
outweighs all western aid and trade combined.
The inroads made by Islamic fundamentalism in the
region
can be tied to the Caucasus's stunted economies.
The Putin government must put aside wounded pride and worries about the West and embark on sustained efforts to improve infrastructure and promote trade in the
region.
Yet foreign capital, both direct and financial investment, has continued to flow into the
region.
Havel reasons along similar lines when he warns of the emerging dangers of nationalism and populism in the
region.
In his opinion, the underlying “old” patterns of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the collapse of communism in the
region.
Havel is right that the
region
will sober up after its political hangover.
The North Korean regime is a remnant of the Cold War – a Stalinist dinosaur that has survived to the present day, whereas South Korea has rapidly become an economic and technological power in the
region.
Since then, China has been North Korea’s quasi-protector, and the US has protected South Korea, not least by keeping a large military deployment in the
region
even after the Cold War ended.
Without that American military presence, war most likely would have returned to the region; or, at a minimum, Japan and South Korea would have developed their own nuclear deterrent.
A series of recent visits to the
region
by senior American officials suggests that the new administration is treating the situation on the Korean Peninsula as a serious threat.
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting Trump in Washington earlier this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his first official trip to East Asia, following Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s trip to the
region
in February.
What will emerge could be a fragmented, easily manipulated
region.
Now, with Obama’s decision to send arms as well, his “red line” in Syria – the use of chemical weapons – could well create a legacy as damaging to the
region
as that of the Sykes-Picot “line in the sand” proved to be.
We may hope that economic development in Eastern Europe – or Mexico – will equalize conditions sufficiently to end net flows from one
region
to another; but ending the flow of refugees from the Middle East and Africa is altogether more daunting.
The unrest caught most people by surprise – both inside and outside the
region
– and has fundamentally upended at least five conventional beliefs about the Arab world.
Although Asia is the world’s most dynamic region, it has a paucity of institutional mechanisms for resolving – or at least mitigating – international disputes of the type that are ratcheting up tension across the
region.
Some Japanese and Korean strategic thinkers believe that China is intent not only on displacing the US as Asia’s leading power, but also on economic domination of the
region.
But the
region
looks very different through Chinese eyes.
With moderates being marginalized, the long-term effect will be to undermine democratization efforts in the
region.
Causing loss of lives does not contribute to the present or future welfare of the people of the
region.
The Socialist International is committed to working hard with its partners in the
region
to make peace in the Middle East a reality.
Trade in the
region
has flourished, naturally gravitating toward the EU, the world’s largest market.
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