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Whether Iraq’s switch from a Sunni-minority regime to Shia-majority rule is a cause or a symptom of the current regional churn, it is clear that the sectarian divide has underpinned the crises in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, and parts of Saudi Arabia.
The US and the entire international community are utterly unequipped to deal with this Middle Eastern version of Yugoslavia and its regional consequences.
As China’s neighbors well know, the country’s quest for regional dominance could be damaging – and even dangerous.
Yet other regional powers have done little to develop a coordinated strategy to thwart China’s hegemonic plans.
To secure a stable balance of power, likeminded countries must stand together in backing a rules-based regional order, thereby compelling China to embrace international norms, including dispute settlement through peaceful negotiation, rather than military intimidation or outright force.
Clearly, both Japan and India are well aware that China’s ambitions, if realized, would result in a regional order inimical to their interests.
Asia’s main powers – beginning with Japan and India, but also including the US – must work together to secure a broadly beneficial and stable regional balance of power.
It is thus imperative that assistance be provided through a variety of channels, in addition to, or instead of, the IMF, including regional institutions.
A new regional autonomy law will provide greater freedoms for regions and local communities to express themselves.
Artur Mas, President of Catalonia’s regional government, has vowed to go ahead with a non-binding referendum anyway.
Of course, contrary to China, India still finds it difficult to fully perceive itself as a world power, though it is well aware that it has become a regional giant.
The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation for regional and world security that it has become.
In September 2005, five world powers, including the US, offered North Korea an unimpeded civilian nuclear program, energy assistance, economic aid, and diplomatic recognition, as well as a promise to establish a regional mechanism for maintaining peace and security in Northeast Asia.
What Albert Einstein considered a “malignant fantasy” remains a potent force even in united Europe, where regional nationalism and xenophobic nativism have not come close to disappearing.
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
Indeed, Northeast Asia would become the third major axis of regional economic integration, following the EU and NAFTA.
Robust Japanese participation would mitigate Asia-Pacific polarization and contribute to building momentum for regional integration.
That purpose, of course, is to create an Asian Monetary Fund, i.e., a regional alternative to the International Monetary Fund, whose tender ministrations during the 1997-98 financial crisis have not been forgotten or forgiven.
In previous regional agreements, like capital subscriptions to the Asian Development Bank, China had always been treated as a second-rate power and asked to contribute less.
But regional neighbors find it hard to criticize one another’s policies and demand course corrections.
Its May agreement included a commitment to establish a regional surveillance unit.
Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.
Northern governors oppose a third term for Obasanjo because they believe it is now their turn to choose Nigeria’s president under a deal, struck with their southern counterparts when democracy was introduced in 1999, for regional rotation of the presidency.
Relations with Iran still have a long way to go – not just in monitoring its compliance with the deal, but also in encouraging its leaders to change their regional approach, including by improving relations with Sunni Arabs, especially Saudi Arabia.
Asia is the world’s most resource-poor continent, and overexploitation of the natural resources that it does possess has created an environmental crisis that is contributing to regional climate change.
Indeed, Asia is one of only two continents, along with Africa, where regional integration has yet to take hold, largely because political and cultural diversity, together with historical animosities, have hindered institution-building.Strained political relations among most of Asia’s sub-regions make a region-wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.
With India also a key member, this newly consolidated grouping – the only meeting that brings together the region’s most senior government officials with an open-ended agenda – is set to become by far the most effective of the alphabet soup of Asia’s regional and sub-regional organizations.
First of all, it wants to spread the wealth by pursuing a new model of regional integration through energy and infrastructure.
Balanced economic development – national and regional – is essential for Brazil.
Brazil’s new oil reserves will certainly affect regional geo-politics.
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