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Such an outcome would effectively make Yemen and the rest of the Gulf states ungovernable, allowing the Sunni-Shia confrontation that is currently unfolding in the Levant to overwhelm the
region.
The Consulta de San José in Costa Rica asked a group of leading economic experts to rank solutions to the biggest challenges facing the
region.
Yet there is a disturbing lack of research to show what policy options have worked in the
region.
These programs should be emulated throughout the
region.
Even prior to this, SWFs in the MENA
region
held substantial assets in public equity markets at home and abroad.
Sovereign investors, including SWFs, are the largest institutional investors in most Arab stock exchanges, holding over 40% of the total market capitalization in the
region.
As some of largest public equity investors in the region, SWFs should be encouraged to take more responsibility for their investments.
Eventually, it could easily sink a few ships to block the Strait of Hormuz, or unleash its proxies in the region, which include pro-Iranian Shia forces in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
Bhumibol’s death further destabilizes an already unstable
region.
Along with a passport comes an offer of a free apartment in the Mordovia
region
(still a Gulag site) and even a job as the local culture minister.
Likewise, China might oppose "Operation CIS."Until recently, China feared that Russia's withdrawal from the
region
would create a vacuum that the US would fill.
Viewing the
region
as its strategic backyard and a source of energy, China is now expanding its influence.
East African countries are also pushing integration projects ahead, and appear to have learned from past failures in the region, which were the result of hastily constructed, inappropriate, and overly ambitious structures.
A financial crisis in Russia, together with collapsing energy prices, would crash the Eurasian economy, with serious repercussions for EU members that depend heavily on exports to the
region.
The falling out over Iran follows America’s refusal to bomb Syria (another Saudi rival in the region) and its blessing of the removal in 2011 of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (an important Saudi ally).
And Iran’s behavior in the broader Middle East – particularly its support for terrorist groups in the
region
– seems to belie its claim to be seeking regional stability and economic development.
To many, its behavior in the
region
suggests a continuing competition with the Sunni Arab world for the mantle of leadership, often defined by a misguided and hateful policy toward Israel.
Unlike North Korea, it possesses a vibrant civil society, educated classes that are the envy of the region, an extensive diaspora, and one of the world’s richest endowments of natural resources.
Clearly, the January 2005 election there was a positive step for the
region.
So is employing young men, educating young women, and addressing values of liberty and justice, which means ameliorating the sense of indignity in the
region
that stems from issues like the Israel-Palestine conflict.
To ensure the sustainability of people-centered cooperation, all countries in the
region
must grow and develop together.
We will also accelerate the pace of negotiations for the further liberalization of a Korea-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA), in order to pave the way for freer and more inclusive growth in the
region.
Indeed, the new generation in the
region
is both more Asian and more open to the universal.
Since 2000, an estimated 60% of the world’s conflict-related deaths have been in the MENA region, while violence in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen continues to displace millions of people annually.
But evidence from outside the
region
demonstrates that when integrated properly, refugees are more of a benefit than a drain on host countries’ labor markets.
By ensuring access to work, strengthening communication and digital access, and laying the groundwork for post-war reconstruction, the people of a shattered
region
can begin planning for a more prosperous future.
Last April, the European Parliament voted virtually unanimously for the Assyrians to be allowed to establish (on the basis of section 5 of the Iraqi Constitution) a federal
region
where they can be free from outside interference to practice their own way of life.
Fortunately, the time for armed conflict in that
region
appears to have come to a definitive end, now that the Balkan states are on the path to NATO and EU membership.
But Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and Moldova, also must be treated as a
region
of special importance.
Diminishing the
region
to a set of development challenges will no longer do.
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