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But the wars that followed, and the latest wars in the
region
– the Lebanon war of 2006 and the Gaza war of December 2008/January 2009 – do not support this reckless theory.
I believe that the contrary is true: the Kurds will be a pole of stability in a
region
increasingly susceptible to fanaticism and terror.
In a
region
where others create refugees, the Kurds provide a safe haven.
For these reasons, I believe very deeply that, in this stormy region, swept by so many ill winds, threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that accompanies them, the rebirth of an independent Kurdish nation and state will mark an advance.
It will be an advance that helps to dispel from the
region
the terrible genies of disintegration, chaos, and bloody convulsion.
For all these reasons, I believe that a Kurdish nation-state will be a force for peace, not disorder, in the Middle East, a stormy
region
that is threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that they beget.
One of Kurdistan’s merits is to have kept alive the flame of internationalism in a benighted
region.
It is, in short, the familiar story of gains being widely distributed while losses are sharply concentrated, usually by sector, and often by
region.
Solidarity in Europe cannot be construed as a moral obligation of some to help others; there simply is no sense of community in the current EMU that could support permanent fiscal transfers from one
region
to another.
But, with nationalism and military budgets rising sharply, achieving consensual stability has become imperative for the
region.
Rather than spending energy on trying to build large-scale institutions covering the entire region, it would be better to focus more on smaller, issue-oriented institutions.
Obama announced the United States’ strategic “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific
region
in January 2012, and a whirlwind of activity there – from Australia to Indonesia to India – marked America’s security diplomacy throughout the year.
Building Palestine From the Bottom UpJERUSALEM – As President Barack Obama’s special Middle East envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell, learned during his visit to the region, America’s efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peace-making are running up against three major obstacles.
Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice; independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the
region
peaceful, even absent an overall agreement; local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias; and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.
The war enabled Iran to assert itself as the dominant power in the Gulf and the wider region, and its nuclear program serves precisely these ambitions.
The losers in the
region
are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.
Bush squandered a large part of America’s military strength in Mesopotamia for an ideological fiction – strength that is sorely missed in the
region
ten years later.
Indeed, the gravest current danger to the
region
is a process of national disintegration emanating from the Syrian civil war, which is threatening to spread not only to Iraq, but also to Lebanon and Jordan.
As Bloomberg succinctly put it, the data underscore how the world’s second-largest economy is “growing its influence in the region” at the expense of the US.
This approach could be one way to stabilize the
region
during this period of heightened uncertainty.
As a result, the United States’ allies in the
region
would need new security guarantees.
What if Iran incited unrest in its neighbors, jeopardizing US-allied regimes in the
region?
(And, in the latter case, would the US follow its pattern of ousting a Middle Eastern government without a succession plan?)Regardless of the goal, the end result would be more troops and ships in the region, more resources appropriated to fight new or revitalized terrorist organizations, and more arms for allied countries, many of which are themselves unstable.
And there is the desire to restore states’ integrity and stability in the
region.
Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia’s external influence in this
region
remains enormous.
This seems to be a more efficient – and politically more stable – form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations of the type seen across the
region.
(It is also good news for Russia’s ally Iran, which can only welcome the destabilization of its main non-Arab Sunni rival in the region.)
To this end, he wanted either to redraw the
region'
s borders, or at least conclude a deal that gave autonomy to Serbian-majority regions outside of Serbia proper.
His actions are not driven primarily by a determination to annex the Donbas
region
(which is of negligible strategic importance to Russia), carve out a land corridor to Crimea, or create a frozen conflict.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s most recent Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007 alone, nearly two-thirds of the countries in the
region
experienced an acute energy crisis marked by frequent and extended electricity outages.
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