Region
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Bolivia's peasant coca cultivators are viewed not as indigenous people trying to survive in a
region
mostly without jobs, but as drug traffickers.
America's domestic public health problem is seen as an Andean-wide plot to be suppressed with military force, exacerbating violence throughout the
region.
America’s support for democracy in the
region
heightens its dilemma.
Of the policies that will determine his future role in the region, the Asia Cooperation Dialogue and Economic Cooperation Strategy stand out.
Turmoil in Arab societies is bound to persist for years to come, and emerging regional and world powers can be expected to exploit the international order’s fragmentation to advance their interests in the
region.
The
region
is home not only to the world’s fastest-growing economies, but also to the fastest-increasing military expenditures and naval capabilities, the fiercest competition over natural resources, and the most dangerous strategic hot spots.
The result could be the ascendancy of a China-led illiberal hegemonic regional order, at the expense of the liberal rules-based order that most countries in the
region
support.
As the most recent US National Security Strategy report put it, “A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific region.”
And yet while the major players in the
region
all agree that an open, rules-based order is vastly preferable to Chinese hegemony, they have so far done far too little to promote collaboration.
The US may not like the idea of rolling back some of its military presence in such a pivotal region, but it should not forget what Kennedy knew: there is no victor in a nuclear war.
Mongolia, for its part, banned the death penalty in 2015, and is setting a positive example in a
region
where most countries systematically torture and execute prisoners.
How Europe Can Save the Iran Nuclear DealLONDON – This week, a senior German official pointed out to me that, “The Iran nuclear deal is the last firewall preventing military tensions in the world’s most combustible
region
from spilling over into thermonuclear war.”
Trump’s main objections to the deal are that it does not address Iran’s misbehavior in the
region
or its ballistic missile program, nor does it prevent Iran from restarting its nuclear program after 2025.
Desperate to avoid another war in the Middle East, Europeans, starting in 2005, began to define their own interests in the
region.
Brazil was the most prominent among the Latin American economies under attack, but analysts worried about similar vulnerabilities elsewhere in the
region.
The scarcity of savings in the
region
reflects the weak incentives embedded in poorly designed tax and pension systems.
But, as a 2013 Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) report makes clear, the fiscal stimulus was not always withdrawn in time when the crisis abated, so the fiscal position across the
region
today is weaker than it was in 2007.
That is yet another big difference between the
region
and East Asia.
We in the
region
hope they can.
I met and was profoundly inspired by many in the
region
who, like Havel, lived in truth: Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuron, Bronislaw Geremek, Gregorsz Lindenberg, Jan Smolar, Irena Grosfeld, and, of course, Lech Walesa.
Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the Palestinian cause more actively.
For example, in West Africa’s Sahel
region
– which is experiencing a combination of drought, failed harvests, high food prices, displacement, and endemic poverty – the lack of social protection leaves millions of people to rely on their own limited coping mechanisms and charity.
The United States will have to stop defining its transatlantic interests in terms of its hegemonic mindset, and Europe will have to take fuller charge of its own
region.
Nepal is one of the world’s poorest countries, ranking near the bottom even in the South Asian
region.
Europe, too, needs to help organize a large hemispheric
region.
President George W. Bush pledged – albeit belatedly – $350 million in relief to the victims, and sent high-level emissaries to the
region.
According to many close observers, America’s attractiveness is declining in the
region
where the allure, or “soft power,” of others has increased.
Since the USSR’s collapse, a new generation has come of age throughout the
region.
In his provocative American Economic Review paper “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas,” Mundell argued that as long as workers could move within a currency
region
to where the jobs were, the
region
could afford to forgo the equilibrating mechanism of exchange-rate adjustment.
Not surprisingly, workers are leaving the eurozone’s crisis countries, but not necessarily for its stronger northern
region.
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