Region
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Instead of the intended radical realignment of power relations in the region, the aim is now to simply maintain the status quo.
So at stake is no longer just Iraq, but rather the future of the entire
region.
And with every passing day, America’s position in the
region
is weakening further and the chances of a successful new political strategy become more remote.
Iran harbors hegemonic ambitions which it seeks to realize by means of its military potential, oil and gas reserves, its nuclear program, its influence over Shiites throughout the region, and its efforts to upset the status quo within the Arab Muslim world.
Its only allies in the
region
are Syria and Hezbollah.
But to achieve this, it will be necessary to offset, or at least balance, the interests of the most important actors in the
region.
As a result, most countries in the
region
have now achieved “middle-income” status.
If Latin America’s companies are to compete effectively with those based in developed or emerging economies, the
region
must urgently remedy this, by raising the skill level of its workforce.
One reason Latin American workers lack the right skills is education: less than half of young people in the
region
graduate from high school, and 20% of them (some 20 million people) are neither studying nor working.
Similarly, Belgium’s Flanders
region
and Scandinavia show how governments can use their procurement activities more intelligently, orienting private-sector research and development toward technological innovation.
This remodeling includes limited replacement of neurons in the hippocampus, a brain
region
important for spatial memory and memory of events in our daily lives.
The recognition of the brain’s vulnerability and plasticity under stress began with investigations of the hippocampus, and it now includes the amygdala, a brain
region
involved in fear, anxiety, and mood, and the prefrontal cortex, which is important in decision making, memory, and top-down control of impulsive behavior, as well as regulation of the autonomic nervous system and stress hormone axis.
Poverty and unemployment are still more widespread than in other emerging markets, but accelerating growth since 2000 has made Africa the world’s second-fastest-growing
region
(after emerging Asia and equal to the Middle East).
The Grand Strategy of Xi JinpingSEOUL – China spent much of 2014 seeking to revive a concept that Japan proclaimed seven decades ago, when it was an imperial power seeking to impose its will on the region: “Asia for the Asians.”
This amounted to an escalation of China’s already assertive stance in the region, with Chinese President Xi Jinping routinely sending maritime-surveillance and fishery law-enforcement ships to the waters surrounding the islands, spurring protests in South Korea and Japan.
Indeed, China has been shifting from hard power to soft throughout the region, and is using its economic power to challenge Western-dominated multilateral institutions.
Last year, when separatist forces in the Donbas
region
appeared to be crumbling under the weight of Ukraine's counter-offensive, it seemed possible that Ukraine would be able to reassert its sovereignty over the area.
Given this, the prospects for Ukraine to reassert control over the Donbas
region
militarily are so slim that even trying to do so would be foolish.
Such an army, separatist leaders hope, will enable them – at the very least – to secure control over the Donbas
region.
No power anywhere, within the
region
or without, is willing and able to implement the barest vision of a new regional order – or even a vision for parts of it.
In addition to poverty, backwardness, repression, rapid population growth, religious and ethnic hatred, and stateless peoples (such as the Kurds and the Palestinians), the
region
has unstable borders.
Until then, the
region
will remain very dangerous, not only internally, but also for its neighbors (including Europe) and the world.
The Arab World’s Coming ChallengesLONDON – Fifty years after the Six Days War, the Middle East remains a
region
in seemingly perpetual crisis.
So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor and humanitarian community typically focus on the here and now.
The
region
is also likely to face intensifying contests over national identities as well, and perhaps even the redrawing of borders – processes that will trigger further confrontations.
The Gulf was also the main source of investment capital, not to mention tens of billions of dollars in remittances, to the rest of the
region.
What leaders – both within and outside the
region
– can do is pursue large-scale and intelligent investments in primary and secondary education, small and medium-size businesses (which form the backbone of Arab economies), and renewable energy sources (which could underpin the upgrading of regional value chains).
Now, however, closer economic integration means that sluggish growth in China and India will reduce job opportunities and slow the rate of poverty reduction throughout the
region.
In the central
region
of Marib, home to the oil and gas facilities that Yemen relies on for foreign currency, several tribes have vowed to fight the Houthis.
The
region
was once a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an affiliate of the global terrorist organization.
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