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Of course, the
region
has seen many such well-meaning conferences.
To draw in community participation and involve the region’s future leaders, students from one of the top business schools in the
region
will weigh in.
China, the world’s rising power, is eagerly strengthening its trade, investment, aid, and cooperation with the
region.
And Russia, deeply dissatisfied with its perceived second-class treatment by the US, is returning to the
region
with both business and weapon sales.
Even Japan is devoting more attention to the
region.
It is not just that several countries have seen center-left and radical parties come to power;US leadership and interests are routinely questioned, and even challenged, not only by Communist Cuba and “Bolivarian” Venezuela, but almost everywhere in the
region.
Given this widening regional hostility, and the disruption caused by a financial crisis that was made in America, governments across the
region
are keen to find new partners and markets as alternatives to the US.
Accepting this will be the most encouraging sign that President Barack Obama’s new administration can give to the
region.
The Middle East, always a
region
of concern for Europe, has become even less stable as a result of the war.
Most of the potential climate refugees will end up in huge zones of increasing dryness – the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, central China, and the US.
Oil was discovered in Chad’s southern Doba
region
in 1975, with 300 wells drilled so far.
The project’s realization has already led to alleged human rights abuses against poor farmers in the region, who claim that they have been denied access to their land.
But ignoring people’s fundamental rights might well lead the
region
back to a time when none of it was possible.
But, as these would-be radicals play politics with Japan’s national security, serious tensions are mounting in our
region.
As current experience shows, in the absence of firm ties with Turkey, Europe’s influence in the
region
and beyond – from the Black Sea to Central Asia – is practically zero.
Nonetheless, the potential for European influence in the Middle East remains low, and the
region
will remain dangerous in the long term.
Indeed, the entire Mediterranean region, including the strategically located North African coast, plays a crucial role in Europe’s security calculations.
The choice is between a mare nostrum or a
region
of instability and insecurity.
Historical evidence from the last 40 years shows that political cycles within the
region
are highly synchronized, and tend to reflect economic booms and busts.
Petrodollars flooding into the
region
financed huge public-spending increases and real-estate booms, and fueled an economic bonanza that propped up the continent’s military dictatorships.
This severe downturn created widespread social discontent, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of US support for military regimes in the region, every Latin American dictatorship except Cuba’s was upended.
And once again, governments in the
region
attributed their economic success to the reigning paradigm, which this time combined economic orthodoxy with redistributive policies.
Preventable disease outbreaks, rare as they are in Western countries, are all too frequent occurrences in a
region
that is home to the world’s largest number of unvaccinated children.
Moreover, six countries in the
region
were declared polio-free in 2014, following extensive vaccination campaigns.
Finally, we must continue to encourage countries in the
region
to increase vaccine coverage rates, in particular with newer vaccines proven to protect against pneumonia and diarrhea, the two leading infectious killers of children.
Iran, however, wants to become a (non-military?) nuclear power and shape a
region
in which it is heavily involved militarily (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq).
To achieve a sustainable compromise that all sides accept (even if with gritted teeth), the negotiations must be accompanied by diplomatic steps aimed at building trust both in the
region
and beyond.
In fact, China seems to be on the same path that made Japan an aggressive, militaristic state, with tragic consequences for the
region
– and for Japan.
Without dramatic improvement at all educational levels, unemployment, illiteracy, and income inequality will continue to worsen, and the
region
will remain a danger to itself and its neighbors.
The American University of Beirut, founded in 1866, has arguably done more to transform the Middle East in positive ways than any other comparable institution, yet it receives only $3 million in annual aid from the United States, which spends billions on armies and weaponry in the
region.
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