Region
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Labor productivity is also quite low: For most economies in the region, service-sector productivity is less than 20% of the OECD average.
And yet service-sector reform remains just out of reach for the region, owing to the absence of the political will needed to dismantle the vested interests that keep it there.
While India has fought terrorism longer than any other country, the problem now affects the entire region, including Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, a strategic alliance that supports peace in the Indian and Pacific Ocean
region
– for example, among India, the US, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Vietnam – could be shaped quietly and calmly, without impeding any of the partners’ ability to establish economic ties with third parties, including China.
America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will, in the short run, be a setback for the entire
region.
With the right choices, the
region
can convert disruption into an opportunity for a resilient future.
A
region
of turbulence, disharmony, and underdevelopment in the 1960s is today one of relative peace and economic success.
But the
region
also benefited strongly from the post-World War II global architecture and institutions that promoted inward flows of investment and outward flows of exports.
As other powers rise, ASEAN is at risk of losing its collective commitment to a shared vision for the
region
and a common stance on geopolitical issues.
After the Balkan Wars of the 1990’s, the Near and Middle East is at once the most dangerous and also – given security considerations – the most important neighboring
region
for the EU today.
Because the main threats to European security at the beginning of the 21st century stem from that
region.
If one asks what interests the EU and its member states have in this crisis-riddled region, the answer is, that certainly European energy and economic interests are at stake, as well as the vital interests of Europe’s partners and allies (Israel in particular).
This must include three key elements: a negotiated solution for Syria; a resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; and a common strategic understanding with the US of the political strategy of the West for the
region
(which addresses the region’s most dangerous conflict, Iran).
A
region
often depicted as “backward” is debating its destiny both face-to-face and across social networks every second of every day.
Governments across the
region
have been identified as the problem, and yet the state is being called upon to address a social and political agenda that has not yet been fully defined.
That is a source of hope, if not yet of the systematic and coherent ideas about how to remake their societies that the
region
needs.
Indeed, with Burma’s economy opening to the world, India ought to be taking the lead in seeking to stimulate South Asian growth and economic integration, for only by doing so can it anchor its neighbor within the
region.
It is well documented that the longer children in the
region
are forced to stay out of school, for whatever reason, the less likely they are to return.
A single monetary policy focused on price stability in the euro area cannot react to shocks that affect only one country or
region.
But the election may well have a more positive impact on the
region
as a whole.
Yet again, billions of dollars are spent on bombing and destruction in the region, while virtually nothing is done about the growing water crisis.
Ever since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last year, the regime—once central to American strategic interests in the region, has been made to feel dispensable by the US, which drops strong hints that there are alternatives to Saudi military bases, even to Saudi oil.
The shift of US military priorities to the Asia-Pacific
region
is an understandable strategic rebalancing, given America’s excessive focus on the Middle East and its maintenance of an unnecessary military presence in Europe.
Ustadz So had taught them that Thai rule over this historically Malay
region
was illegitimate, that Thai officials were cruel and heartless, and that the time had come for the Muslim population to rise up and expel the Buddhist infidels.
And that could happen sooner rather than later: France cannot and will not give up on the Mediterranean region, so the exit fantasies entertained by rich northern Europeans (Germans, above all) endanger the Franco-German pillar of European peace.
At no stage after being expelled from Kuwait did Saddam’s regime pose a serious threat to the
region
or the West.
Russia, however, is only now beginning to realize that it must be much more pro-active in protecting its national-security interests in the Pacific
region.
With greater trade and travel to the region, outbreaks are likely to spread before international containment can coalesce.
The Bewildered KingdomLONDON – During the three years of political upheaval in the Middle East since the “Arab Spring” began, Saudi Arabia has attempted to maintain its dominant status in the
region
by any means necessary.
As became clear in 2013, Syria is now the main focus of Saudi Arabia’s attention in the region, and for existential reasons.
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