Region
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A friend from the
region
described the FATA as “a forgotten age” where only the “law of the jungle” prevails.
Even so, his country is unique in the
region
in the strength of its support for reforms.
In most other countries of the region, talk remains focused on the difficulty of "changing the mentality" of the people.
Qatar, a small peninsula off the coast of Saudi Arabia, allowed its territory to be used as the US military headquarters in the invasion of Iraq, while at the same time sponsoring Al Jazeera, the most popular television station in the region, which was highly critical of American actions.
America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia is based on a pragmatic give-and-take approach aimed at advancing mutual interests, the most important of which is maintaining relative peace and security in a volatile
region
that is vital to the global economy.
During President George W. Bush’s administration, the US worked with the Saudis to track financial flows to radical groups and thus weaken such groups’ operations throughout the region, including in western Iraq.
That means engaging in an honest conversation about the bilateral relationship, based on some acknowledgment of Wahhabism’s central role in the rise of Sunni radicalism throughout the
region.
Over the last decade alone, vegetable production in the Asia-Pacific region, where more than three-quarters of the world’s vegetables are grown, increased by one-quarter.
Because the
region
shares many outward forms of European culture, it is a short step to assuming that recent moves to free-markets and democracy will be seamless and permanent.
It would also be helpful if Iran laid out its strategic vision for the
region.
It will have to accept all the other states in the
region
as legitimate players with their own legitimate interests as much as it wants to be recognized as such itself.
After all, Turkey’s new outlook implies that it is intent, for the first time in its history as a republic, on promoting democratic principles in the
region.
A more vocal Turkish policy on issues related to fundamental freedoms and democratic reform in the
region
will necessarily alter Turkey’s relations with its less progressive neighbors.
But this global focus on Sudan’s Darfur region, though justified, has overshadowed an even more vital issue: sustaining the quest for a broader peace in all of Sudan.
If the government in Khartoum persists in undermining the reform process and derailing the referendum on self-determination promised for the South in January 2011, a return to full-scale civil war, with calamitous consequences for the peoples of Sudan and the entire region, is a real possibility.
Like Bush’s military misadventures, Trump’s approach to the
region
carries enormous risks, not least because it has buried whatever was left of the transatlantic alliance in the chasm separating America’s power politics and Europe’s emphasis on diplomacy.
And this could lead to a broader conflagration involving other US allies in the region, including the Saudis and other Sunni Arab powers.
To justify our intervention, however, we must now assure a better future not only for the people of Kosovo, but for the whole region, including the rump of Yugoslavia which remains in Mr Milosovic's hands.
The concept was further developed by Karl Popper in his famous book "The Open Society and its Enemies" where he showed that the open society may also be threatened by universal ideas if they claim a monopoly of the truth; but the problems of the
region
are best understood in terms of Bergson's formulation.
The European Union must now extend its protective umbrella over the
region.
The
region
itself must be seen to be larger than the former Yugoslavia because humpty-dumpty cannot be put together again.
This time our engagement must extend to the entire
region.
The amount of subsidy from the EU budget would be in the
region
of 5 billion euro annually.
Trade in agricultural products, which is the mainstay of the region, may remain subject to restrictions but the EU would have to show some generosity for the plan to succeed.
People in the
region
are clamoring for it.
This plan for an open society in Southeast Europe would impose costs on EU members, but the amounts are small because the whole
region
is smaller in economic terms than the Netherlands.
Long before there was Islamist terrorism in the West, the United Kingdom, France, and the US relied on diplomatic chicanery and launched coups, wars, and covert operations in the Middle East to assert and maintain Western political control over the
region.
The US now has more than 20 military bases in six countries in the
region
(Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Turkey) and large-scale military deployments in many others, including Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
The
region
is filled with talented people, and the overwhelming majority in the
region
want to get on with their lives in peace, educate and raise their children in health and safety, and participate in global society.
A recognized community of water and energy interests and programs for their joint exploitation, for example in the rift valley, may lead, as was the motivation for the first stage of European integration, to a wider integration on a wider scale in the
region.
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