Region
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The Russians view normal relations between Turkey and Armenia as a way to minimize Georgia’s strategic role in the
region.
Indeed, it will only confirm what is already underway – an arms race across the
region.
But, with China’s military build-up causing nervousness everywhere, and with North Korea a perpetual source of insecurity, many governments in the
region
are starting to work with outside powers.
Elsewhere in the region, Singapore has apparently opted to purchase 12 new F-15SG fighter aircraft from the United States.
But, despite deep historical animosity over World War II, there are increasing calls in the
region
for Japan to expand its influence to counterbalance China.
It is no overstatement to say that those efforts, which boosted trade and investment in the region, formed the foundation of Japan’s national power today.
There is no doubt that the European transition
region
is in deep crisis.
While Central and Eastern Europe has been the emerging-market
region
to suffer the most in the crisis, it has generally avoided the currency collapses, systemic banking failures, and spikes in inflation that were the staple of previous crises.
Given how deeply integrated the
region
has become with the rest of the world, this is remarkable.
Financial integration has been an important force for long-term growth in the transition region, and the presence of strategic foreign banks helped mitigate the impact of the crisis.
One year into the crisis in the transition region, we can almost rule out the latter scenario.
Thus, while the global recession plunged the transition
region
into crisis, at the same time it demonstrated the resilience of the reforms and economic integration achieved over the last 15 to 20 years.
It also highlighted the pitfalls of the development models that countries in the transition
region
have pursued.
Across the region, anti-Chinese communal violence was widespread.
But the impact of even a small number of disruptions to supply chains can be highly significant, particularly for the Asia-Pacific
region.
But, unlike the poor in many emerging and developed countries, who can hope for social mobility, Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, even if their living standards remain higher than those of most Arabs in the
region.
What I saw during those hours were, despite my personal condition, the most comforting and hopeful signs that I have encountered in the entire
region
in many years.
There are aspects of growth that are like head-to-head competition, in which the gains of one country or
region
can be at the expense of another country or
region.
Like many territories in the region, Gaza has had a long history of foreign occupation, extending to ancient times.
Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the
region
suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.
Three countries in the
region
– Hungary, Latvia, and Romania – required emergency standby programs with the International Monetary Fund.
The US and the political groups that it tends to support in the region, by contrast, offer very little in this regard.
It has clout and respect in its own
region
with formidable fighting forces.
Indeed, Chinese trade and investment are spurring market activity in North Korea’s northern
region.
Across the region, politicians that writer Octavio Paz once referred to as “philanthropic ogres” create clients instead of citizens, people who expect instead of demand.
The
region
is both more democratic and more unequal than it was ten years ago.
Indeed, the
region
remains largely stable.
For decades, trade has been the modus operandi of U.S foreign policy in the region, but some administrations have had broader agendas.
Or the Reagan and Bush I era of interventionism that, depending on your point of view, either saved the
region
from revolutionaries or suppressed needed change.
Worse, there is still no clear US strategy on how to ensure that the endgame does not undermine Western interests or further destabilize the
region.
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