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Russia’s first step in fulfilling this plan in the South Caucasus was directed against Armenia, its strategic partner in the
region.
Add together all the trade-offs between the West and the Arab regimes, along with the Israeli and Islamist factor, and the conclusion at which one arrives is as inescapable as it is alarming: the West cannot afford democracy in the
region.
The old order was established by the World War I-era Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France, which largely created the national borders that exist in the
region
today.
Instead, the most important regional players – Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – have all been vying for influence in the war in Syria, and collectively sliding toward a hopeless conflict for mastery of the entire
region.
With the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iran suddenly gained an opportunity to pursue a kind of quasi-hegemony in the region, starting with its Shia-majority neighbor.
But Trump’s decision has foreclosed that possibility, leaving Iran’s future role in the
region
an open question.
After all, with Russia’s deeper involvement in Syria, the risk of a clash between Russian and Western forces in the
region
has already been growing.
None of this bodes well for Europe, which will be directly affected by an escalation of tensions in the region, owing to its geographic proximity and historic obligations to Israel.
But events in Asia over the past week may define the
region
for decades to come.
Modi’s victory and Abe’s increased ability to stand by Japan’s allies can help to forge deeper bilateral ties and, if properly understood by China, foster a greater strategic equilibrium in the
region.
Not even in Nicaragua, which shares many of the characteristics of the other countries of the region, have gangs become dedicated to killing and terrorizing the population in the way that they do in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and now in Chiapas, Mexico.
Internationalizing the “strong hand” model across the
region
will incite the gangs to spread to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which have so far been successful in preventing gang violence.
More recently, Chirac’s foreign minister, Michel Barnier, chastised the Romanian President Traian Barescu for lacking a “European reflex,” because Barescu plans to align Romania with Anglo-Saxon liberal economic policies, and wants a special relationship with the US and UK to improve security in the Black Sea
region.
And, indeed, three of the seven newly constructed islets include airfields, from which Chinese warplanes could challenge the US Navy’s ability to operate unhindered in the
region.
Given the South China Sea’s strategic importance, disorder there threatens to destabilize the entire
region.
Without it, the
region
will not be able to overcome its low levels of productivity and competitiveness.
Finally, while Latin America’s resource-based economic model and the increasing importance of China in the
region
catalyzed the growth spurt that began in 2004, the share of high-technology manufacturing and services exports has decreased.
Unless this trend is reversed, it will be difficult to improve the quality of jobs in the region, which could jeopardize social and political stability.
The problem is that governments in the
region
have yet to realize that countercyclical fiscal policy implies rowing against the current in both parts of the cycle: spending more when times are bad (the easy part) and spending less when times are good (the true test of virtue).
They hope to circumvent resistance to this expanding role by developing a flexible portfolio of international partners and not asserting dominance outside the North Atlantic
region.
Needless to say, many of us in the
region
feel as though we are being used as lab rats in an experiment that could devastate African farming families’ capacity to feed themselves and their communities.
Among the vast list of unforeseen consequences springing from the US fiasco in Iraq is the vital fact that, across Latin America, anti-Americanism is on the rise and is rapidly generating myriad grim effects on the
region'
s politics.
The invasion, the absence of any weapons of mass destruction or any link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the pictures of Iraqi civilian casualties, and the subsequent scenes of humiliating mistreatment or torture of Iraqi prisoners and detainees have all contributed to a wide, deep, and probably lasting collapse of sympathy for the US in the
region.
It was U.S. investment in eradicating hookworms from its Southern states in the early 20th century that improved health conditions in the American South, and which helped to bring about a boom in investments in that previously impoverished
region.
But where is the country or
region
without serious economic worries and deep structural problems?
The
region
in and around Syria is also populated by extremist Islamist groups that are attempting to expand their spheres of influence - and that are quick to capitalize on instability in any country.
Likewise, efforts to weaken Iran's disruptive influence in the
region
must be maintained, while Turkey's regional ambitions must be kept in mind.
A new Syria, based on democratic principles, would not only benefit Syrians, but would be a force for stability throughout the
region.
Yet, in Sub-Saharan Africa – the
region
with the most potential for progress under the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals – accurate data are severely lacking.
Citizens must be reminded that US forward deployment in Okinawa – with financial support from Japan –enables both countries to project power across the
region.
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