Region
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If so, Tunisia’s uprising could be a game-changing event for the entire
region.
With this in mind, the Catalyst Foundation is assessing pilot civic-education projects in the
region
– as well as in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the United States – to determine how school curricula can best cultivate inter-faith understanding.
The situation in the Asia-Pacific
region
requires moving US troops who were once based in Europe to Australia.
For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern
region
by 85%.
This requires a policy that integrates China as a responsible global stakeholder, but hedges against possible hostility its bets by maintaining close relations with Japan, India, and other countries in the
region.
But the lost jobs in one
region
and sector were generally being replaced – in absolute terms, if not as a share of the labor force – by new jobs in another
region
or sector.
The sanctions were linked to the implementation of the 2014 Minsk Protocol, which brought about today’s patchy ceasefire with Russian-backed insurgents in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, and are supposed to expire at the end of next month.
But the bigger challenge confronting the
region
is that many governments treat drug addiction as a moral failure rather than an illness.
Russia Looks EastDENVER – The United States’ “pivot” to Asia, a process so delicately defined that even the name had to be changed to “rebalancing” to avoid any misunderstandings in Europe, now seems to have company, in the form of renewed Russian interest in the
region.
No longer is the
region
regarded as America’s “backyard”; on the contrary, the continent has arguably never been so united and independent.
His successor, Barack Obama, seemed to give the
region
little thought as well, at least in his first term.
Indeed, at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena in April 2012, Latin American leaders felt sufficiently confident and united to challenge US priorities in the
region.
Similarly, in 2008, Russia’s then-President Dmitri Medvedev identified the US war on terror as an opportunity to create strategic partnerships with rising powers such as Brazil, and with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a Venezuelan-inspired bloc opposed to US designs in the
region.
As a result, the
region
was able to withstand the ravages of the global financial crisis.
US exports to Central America have risen by 94% over the past six years; imports from the
region
have risen by 87%.
Given the extraordinary growth of Latinos’ influence in the US, it is almost inconceivable that America could lose its unique status in the
region
to China or Russia, let alone Iran.
India’s cultural, economical, social, and sometimes military ties with Burma – indeed, with the entire
region
– are older than China’s.
The world is not running out of oil, but two-thirds of oil reserves are located in the politically unstable Persian Gulf
region.
In particular, no progress was made on the creation of a free-trade area for the
region.
Very few Latin American countries support the Iraq war; indeed, only a handful of small countries in the
region
contributed troops to the so-called “coalition of the willing,” and today only El Salvador still has its troops in Iraq.
Voters across Latin America are becoming skeptical of market-oriented policies and globalization, making it more likely that in coming years, and under new leadership, economic policies in the
region
will be less friendly to foreign investment in general, and to US economic interests in particular.
These initiatives will give the signal to Latin American leaders that, despite appearances to the contrary – including the latest Summit of the Americas – the
region
has not been completely neglected by President Bush and the US.
Africa’s poverty rate in 2003 exceeds that of the next poorest region, South Asia, by 17 percentage points.
After all, Pope Francis’s native region, Latin America, is currently home to nearly half (44%) of the world’s Catholics.
And we think that the naming of a Latin American pope has the same underlying motivation – to compete with the growing threat of Protestantism in this
region.
Since then, stability and hope have begun to return to a
region
affected by the destruction of war and the widespread despair of social displacement.
Since 1990, this
region'
s population has grown by 24%, to 167.2 million.
Burma is failing miserably to live up to the standards of decency that the Southeast Asian
region
is setting for itself.
A more promising one lies beneath the permafrost of Prudhoe Bay, the big oil-producing
region
on the arctic coast of Alaska.
No question: the past ten or twelve years in Latin America represented a turning point for democracy in the
region.
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