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And throughout the region, regimes have closed off channels for political expression, and responded to popular protests with increasing brutality.
Fikri’s death triggered a wave of protests across the northern Rif, a
region
with a long history of rebelliousness.
Unlike his father, King Hassan II, Mohammed has supported the region’s indigenous Berber culture, and made investments to turn the Rif coastal
region
into a manufacturing hub.
A total of 57 countries – from Europe, Asia, and Latin America – have joined the Chinese-led effort to spend $100 billion on roads, rail lines, bridges, and harbors throughout the
region.
Commercial ties may also help preserve political stability in the region, especially if the fruits of economic development are perceived by all to be shared in a reasonably fair manner.
Turkey’s reform process shows that the latter is not an unavoidable destiny for the countries of the
region.
Turkey’s other major contribution comes through constructive diplomatic engagement in the
region.
Indeed, Turkish policymakers have, on a regular basis, brought the countries bordering Iraq together for discussions about the future of the
region.
This is both a necessary and a promising role, for the
region
needs a local dynamic force pushing for reform, transformation, and peace.
Turkey’s experience shows that true security in the
region
requires internal stability and social peace.
Many of the countries affected by China’s actions in the South and East China Seas have security treaties with the US, which has been the major maritime power in the Pacific
region
since World War II.
It reflects above all the desire to leave that unhappy
region
to itself and feel morally good nevertheless.
In 2011, the G-8 Deauville Partnership – which brought the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to the
region
– pledged that the international financial institutions (IFIs) would provide $38 billion to the transition countries over three years.
Bringing into the EU applicant countries from Central and Eastern Europe, as well from the Baltic region, however, remains the single most important item on the European agenda in our time.
Most of what was sought in March 2011 – from Assad’s removal to democratic reforms and civic equality regardless of ethnicity, region, or sect – remains aspirational.
For a few hundred years, when science and mathematics were enjoying a period of great invention, one
region
of the world stood out.
Not surprisingly, this
region
was globally respected.
The prosperous
region
was the Islamic Middle East, while an ignorant Europe remained poor.
Unless conditions in the
region
change dramatically for the better, the creation of a WMD-free zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East – an idea launched at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2010 – might prove a stillborn initiative.
How can a meeting be convened in 2012, as stipulated by the 2010 NPT conference’s final document, “on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at by the states of the region,” when many of those states are in turmoil, inter-state relations are strained, and the threat of conflict is mounting?
Conceived as a confidence-building endeavor and accompanied by a robust peacemaking track, ACRS was interrupted by the difficulties in the peace process, by Arab states’ insistence that Israel’s nuclear capabilities be addressed before anything else, and by the underlying struggle for mastery in the
region.
This is a futile exercise, not only because Israel would never disarm unilaterally, but also because without normal inter-state relations in the
region
it is impossible to engage seriously in an effective dialogue on such vital issues.
There might be no better formula for progress towards a WMDFZ in the Middle East than a return to the ACRS concept, whereby two parallel tracks move toward a comprehensive Israeli-Arab peace along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative, and to the establishment of a WMDFZ in the
region.
If that is indeed the case, the episode should not be regarded as yet another incident in a
region
fraught by conflict and violence.
More than that, there were hints of a desire for annexation, with the Saar
region
actually separated from Germany for a time.
China aspires to play a larger role in its region, and the US has regional allies to whose defense it is committed.
In Africa, climate change may already be responsible for falling water levels in West African rivers; declining coral reefs in tropical waters; lower fruit production in the Sahel; fewer fish in the Great Lakes region; and the spread of malaria in the Kenyan uplands.
It seems that security and economic considerations have now usurped democracy as leading determinants of US foreign policy in the
region.
But Iran has resources that Cambodia and Laos could never muster; indeed, its ability to retaliate could set the entire
region
ablaze.
According to MGI, 58% of the gains in the Asia-Pacific
region
would come from raising the female-to-male ratio of labor-force participation, 17% from increasing women’s work hours, and the remaining 25% from having more women working in higher-productivity sectors.
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