Region
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The
region
is poised to become one of the main suppliers of oil and gas for world energy markets, and its big rivers, if properly managed, have the capacity to provide enough water both for irrigation and for electricity exports to China, India, and Russia.
But cooperation is needed both within the
region
and with key neighbors in order to realize effective regional water and energy management.
The
region
is also at risk from the effects of drug trafficking.
Yet it will be up to the leadership in the
region
to overcome obstacles to openness and co-operation.
Chirkeisky, the second Sufi leader to be assassinated in Dagestan this year, had been a vocal critic of Wahhabism, the Saudi petrodollar-funded brand of orthodoxy that has been gaining traction in the
region.
But, since the onset of the global financial crisis, eurozone-based banks’ subsidiaries in emerging Europe have been reducing their exposure to the
region.
After all, excessive and chaotic deleveraging by lenders to emerging Europe – and the ensuing credit crunch – would destabilize this economically and institutionally fragile
region.
But several factors – most of them unrelated to the
region
– are pressuring banks to pursue faster-than-optimal deleveraging.
Indeed, several Western financial groups are considering partial or complete exits from the
region
– without any clear strategic replacement in sight.
The European Investment Bank, the World Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have agreed on a new Joint Action Plan, including investment totaling €30 billion ($39 billion) over the next two years, as well as policy advice, to support economic recovery and sustained growth in the
region.
For a
region
not always accustomed to things going well, this is a somewhat strange state of affairs.
Still, two out of three is not bad in a
region
where, previously, if elections were held at all, disputes about the outcomes were the norm.
All told, with the exception of 2009, the entire
region
will have experienced a full decade of uninterrupted growth – something not witnessed since the 1970’s.
For a
region
that has suffered so long from frustration and despair over its failures, these are among the best of times.
The Islamic Republic, with its back to the wall as sanctions bite, could also react by sinking a few ships to block the Strait of Hormuz, or by unleashing its proxies in the
region
– the pro-Iranian Shia in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
While the overwhelming majority of citizens are convinced that further armed conflict in the
region
is unlikely, the public’s mood – with the exception of Kosovars and Albanians – is pessimistic.
All those who have made it their job to praise the stability in the
region
should look at these figures.
There are now two options for the region: one is a “shock integration” program that takes all of the Western Balkan states into the EU; the other is a journey into the unknown.
Stability alone can no longer be the EU’s only objective in the
region.
When Burma joined ASEAN in 1997, there were only 210,000 Burmese refugees and asylum seekers throughout the
region.
That, together with the heroin that is trafficked from Burma to India, China, Thailand, and other countries in the region, poses a serious threat to our political and economic security.
The democracies in this
region
face a myriad of hazards, but one crucial challenge could be solved relatively easily: the gross under-representation of women in their legislative bodies.
In nine legislative bodies in the region, women account for 10% or less of the members.
But the biggest risks posed by unilateral recognition of Kosovo’s independence are in the South Caucasus, a
region
that abuts the tinderbox of today’s Middle East.
Even before Vladimir Putin became Russia’s president, the Kremlin was making mischief in Georgia, issuing Russian passports to citizens of Abkhazia (the largest breakaway region) and pouring money into its economy.
Russia’s supposed “peacekeeping troops” in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia’s other secession-minded region, have in fact protected their rebel governments.
A trip I took to a village in the Tigre
region
in northern Ethiopia shows why.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the
region
just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
While the specifics vary by economic
region
and sector (housing, labor markets, credit intermediation, etc.), it is a combination with a common and unfortunate outcome: it inhibits economies’ ability to grow, and thus to overcome debt overhangs in an orderly way.
The decision provided the most visible image yet of an emerging China-South Korea concert, one that China believes may prevent the
region
from sliding into cold war.
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