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The second precondition for encouraging peaceful political development in the Arab world, which applies to the EU in particular, is to approach the Mediterranean
region
with the same resolve that was brought to Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War.
The third precondition for Western credibility in the Mediterranean
region
is to take a genuine step towards resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
For example, the Philippines is revamping its security strategy by enhancing cooperation with the United States – China’s counterweight in the
region
– only two decades after it closed two major American military installations, the naval base at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base.
Stimulating interest in the Saudi capital market with these listings prior to the Saudi Aramco IPO might be wise, given that IPOs throughout the Gulf
region
have slumped in recent years.
In fact, Saudi Arabia’s corporate-governance rules, last revamped in February 2017, are among the strictest and most rigorously enforced in the Middle East and North Africa
region.
Unlike other regulators in the region, Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority issues and discloses its enforcement actions, which have recently included criminal sanctions.
Unlike some regulators in the Gulf region, the CMA takes the same approach to SOEs and private firms.
In a
region
where some SOEs operate with no board of directors at all, this is a significant move.
The Emerging “New Middle East”President George W. Bush’s Middle East policy undeniably managed to achieve one thing: it has thoroughly destabilized the
region.
The historical failure named Iraq war, the demise of secular Arab nationalism and the soaring oil and gas prices have wrought profound changes in the
region.
Indeed, modernization by no means implies a solution to the conflicts that continue to fester in the
region.
Indeed, the war in Iraq has transformed the centuries-old Shi’a-Sunni conflict by infusing it with modern geopolitical significance and extending it to the entire
region.
For Iraq’s disintegration would be hard to contain; indeed, it could bring about a thorough balkanization of the
region.
It also champions an increased program of action for the poor and environmentally threatened island economies of the Pacific
region.
To be sure, sure, the path to accession will be tiresome and long, but if both sides set out on this path decisively and sincerely, the whole
region
will be changed for the better.
Despite US opposition to China’s Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank, much of the
region
has embraced it.
Of course, economic cooperation and development will be impossible without sustained peace – and that will not be easy to achieve in a
region
beset by deep-rooted tensions, including between India and Pakistan, and the threat of state-sponsored terrorism.
At the same time, with the US retreating from the Middle East, India must take responsibility for the security of its interests in the region, such as by developing a blue-water naval capacity to secure its maritime energy-trade routes.
The list of major national political leaders in the
region
who have faced, or are about to face, criminal charges has grown so extensive that it is plausible to wonder whether democracy itself can survive in a number of these countries.
Political leaders in Thailand and Malaysia, and in other countries in the region, frequently tout the model pioneered by Singapore’s founder and longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew, who died this month.
(Indeed, with alarm bells sounding throughout the region, the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” widely derided for its clumsy rollout and unintended consequences, now seems wise and prudent.)
Chinese leaders’ insistence on bilateral negotiations with ASEAN’s members, rather than with the bloc as a whole, has done nothing but fuel anxiety and resentment in the
region.
As a result, despite below-normal monsoon rains this year in India’s northeast, through which the Brahmaputra River flows after leaving Tibet and before entering Bangladesh, the
region
faced unprecedented flooding, with devastating consequences, especially in Assam state.
Three weeks earlier, the state-controlled newspaper Global Times offered a more plausible explanation for China’s failure to deliver the promised data to India: the data transfer had been intentionally halted, owing to India’s supposed infringement on Chinese territorial sovereignty in a dispute over the remote Himalayan
region
of Doklam.
Educational opportunities have multiplied, air and water pollution have plummeted, and life expectancy has increased almost to West European levels across the
region.
During this summer of “separatist” folly, the first proposal concerned the appointment of headmasters of schools in the Veneto region: the local councilors in the province of Vicenza approved a measure to reserve all headmaster posts in the province for northern Italian teachers.
The political and security situation in the vast
region
between the Indus Valley and the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean is a cause for grave concern.
When the US intervened militarily in Iraq in 1991, the intention was to effect fundamental change in the entire
region.
The decision to go to war against Iraq to liberate Kuwait, back in 1991, marked the beginning of America’s role as the sole hegemonic military power in the
region.
But were it, despite its military might, to fail, it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the
region.
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