Region
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Across an arc extending from Afghanistan to East Africa, violence now also surges in Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, and beyond, to Sudan’s Darfur
region.
Moreover, promoting greater student/worker mobility and improving labor-market flexibility, both within countries and across the region, would help to improve the allocation of skilled workers.
The
region
is home to most of the world’s poorest states or territories in terms of water resources, including Bahrain, Djibouti, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Tortured reasoning about phrases like “use of force” or “exclusively defense-oriented policy” amounts to an open invitation to confusion, both in the military and to countries in the
region.
Soon, however, those forces that feared losing power in this vast and important
region
began a determined counter-offensive.
Spring-Loaded AlgeriaALGIERS – More than a year has passed since the Arab Spring dawned in the Maghreb, yet the promised political renaissance in the
region
has not materialized.
Several weeks ago, the government of Tajikistan blocked YouTube and reportedly shut down communications networks in a remote
region
where government forces were battling an opposition group.
In Kenya, the EU, the government, and the UNHCR are spearheading a development project for an open settlement near Kalobeyei Township in Turkana, the country’s poorest
region.
That leadership must come not only from the affected countries, but also from neighbors, such as the broader Red Sea region, and from the international community.
Lebanon’s Sunnis and Shiites – the country’s two most powerful communities, owing mostly to their demographic weight and the backing they enjoy from elsewhere in the
region
– are nowhere near the point of mutual violence, but there has been palpable political tension recently.
Their sectarian anxieties aside, the Saudis and Egyptians fear that a nuclear Iran might secure Shiite dominance in the
region.
Inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has interpreted UN demands for its disarmament as a plot by the Bush administration to weaken the party, and as a means of affirming American supremacy in the
region.
This stands in marked contrast to the cowardly and complicit silence of other governments in the
region.
Just months after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, martial law was declared in the region; government forces regained territorial control in the early 1950s.
Such could provide inspiration for the entire region, including its postcommunist countries, where a huge potential for growth exists.
Governments and think-tanks in the
region
are already pointing the way ahead.
A comprehensive strategy is needed to realise the
region'
s full potential.
Here Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University has proposed a "Baltic Rim Regional Agenda" to develop an innovative and co-operative mindset to improve the
region'
s business development.
Much talk will be heard in coming months: the ministerial meeting in Luxembourg, numerous conferences and seminars around the region, and in September a Baltic summit will be held in St. Petersburg at which political and business leaders will discuss what is needed in order to move ahead.
Unshackling ASEANSINGAPORE – As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations approaches its 50th anniversary next year, its failure to reach a consensus regarding Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has raised concerns throughout the
region.
The question of how to respond to growing Chinese assertiveness in the
region
has divided ASEAN member states more deeply than any previous issue has.
If these options fail, all like-minded countries in the region, regardless of their South China Sea claims or ASEAN membership, should form a larger caucus to address the issue, by formulating a shared position in region-wide platforms such as the ASEAN Regional Forum and the East Asia Summit.
The escalating situation in the Aba/Ngaba region, a heavily Tibetan area in Sichuan province where tensions have led to the imposition of unprecedented security measures, is particularly worrisome.
They see the US as simultaneously the champion of democracy in the
region
and as the culprit in their economic woes because of its insistence on the sanctity of capital.
When protecting capital is elevated to a moral principle, or justified as a component of human rights in a
region
resentful over its sense of economic subjugation, the effect is to foster disillusion with human rights.
Despite its difficulty in grasping the reality and depth of the Arab revolutionary process, Turkey is nonetheless more than ever a key player in the
region.
It may not be a model in the strict sense of the term, but it is at least a source of inspiration throughout the region, even though much of its record is ambiguous in both essence and performance.
Likewise, while Egypt is in the midst of a messy revolution, and must give priority to internal change, it also intends to regain a more visible and influential role within the Palestinian national movement(s) and in the
region
as a whole.
These important assets make Turkey an “indispensable nation” in the
region.
Two million Iraqi refugees are scattered around the region, the great majority of them in Jordan and Syria, with smaller numbers in Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt.
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