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Of course, diplomacy needs to be backed by strength, but the US has plenty without militarizing the Asia-Pacific
region
more than it already has.
Born into an Orthodox Serbian family in 1856 in a town that is now part of Croatia, Tesla’s nationality remains an object of debate in the
region.
Indeed, the
region
has always been situated between competing poles, each projecting power through interwoven economic, political, historical, and cultural links.
Through its “Belt and Road Initiative,” China has flexed its economic muscle, investing millions of dollars in infrastructure projects in Serbia and other parts of the
region.
The pressure to reassure the public has driven Belgium, Bulgaria, France, and the Netherlands, as well as the Swiss
region
of Ticino and the Italian
region
of Lombardy, to ban the burqa (the full-body covering worn by ultraconservative Muslim women) and other face-covering veils in some or all public places.
Even Chile, the outstanding performer of the region, will have very slow growth in 1999.
First, much of the
region
pegged its exchange rates to the U.S. dollar.
After the start of the Asian crisis, and with the fall in commodities prices, markets began to anticipate currency devaluations in the
region.
Big international banks pour in lots of short term capital into a region, and then suddenly pull the plug, demanding immediate repayments, and being unwilling to roll over the credits.
This high-interest rate strategy helped push the
region
into a sharp decline in the first half of 1999.
The Managing Director, Mr. Michel Camdessus, thinks he is the economic czar of the region, overriding his own staff as he dispenses commands to sovereign governments.
They, not the outside powers, should lead the way to a stable order in the
region.
The almost inevitable fall of Iran’s closest ally in the region, the Baath regime in Syria, only adds to the regime’s paranoid anxieties – and makes developing a nuclear capability seem all the more necessary for its survival.
But if the path of war is finally taken, and, in its aftermath, the international community fails once again to pacify the world’s most dysfunctional region, the Middle East would devolve into an unruly chaos far more dangerous than the threat of an Iranian bomb.
The deal, which instituted a version of Sharia law in the
region
in exchange for a commitment that militants would lay down their weapons, was blessed by the comparatively liberal Awami National Party (ANP), which governs the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), where Swat is located.
The answer to that question lies within the various Muslim communities of the region, not just in Pakistan.
Instability and separatism are growing in the northern Caucasus, making the broader
region
more volatile.
The core reality is that the Asia-Pacific
region
comprises a group of rapidly globalizing twenty-first-century economies sitting on top of a set of nineteenth-century national tensions.
That contradiction matters for the entire world, because the
region
accounts for some 60% of global output.
As if that were not worrying enough, Asia has become the next global arms bazaar, with military outlays in the
region
now higher than in Europe.
A similar outcome was observed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley after the militant takeover of 2009 rendered the
region
inaccessible for months.
For an American president bent on breaking from his predecessor’s more balanced approach to the region, MBS was a godsend.
Both President Bush and the European Union have proposed bold democratization initiatives in the
region.
Anyone even remotely familiar with the
region
knows how common is the phrase "the Arab nation" ( watan ).
A growing number of countries in the
region
now seem determined to pursue their interests regardless of what the United States desires.
The US not only lost control of the OAS, an organization that generally serves US interests, but also failed to get last month’s Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata Argentina to endorse unanimously a declaration supporting America’s trade and political positions for the
region.
The Tunisian CatalystDAVOS – The whole world celebrates Tunisia’s democratic revolution, which has set off a cascade of events elsewhere in the
region
– particularly in Egypt – with untold consequences.
After all, GDP grew at around 5% annually in Tunisia over the last 20 years, and the country was often cited as boasting one of the better-performing economies, particularly within the
region.
Outrage at bankers in the West is a milder version of the same basic demand for economic justice that we saw first in Tunisia, and now across the
region.
As Islamist parties have taken power in the region, a wave of intimidation and discrimination has been unleashed on Christian minority populations.
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