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African countries’ drive toward domestic development has been accompanied by accelerating regional integration.
Africa’s shift toward regional integration encourages competitiveness by distributing more effectively production factors – such as inputs and equipment – and by allowing greater labor mobility.
Once the colonies had achieved independence – Saudi Arabia, today a Sunni regional power, was created in 1932 – a new attempt was made to unite the Arab nation by means of the political Islam that emerged in the 1920’s in response to the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate.
Nor are there any consolidated regional structures to which the transition countries can adhere; and there are few local models – with the exception of Turkey, for example – that can be used to help democracy and pluralism take root.
Infectious diseases have no borders, and as African countries deepen their trade ties and intra-Africa migration grows, the threat of regional pandemics will only increase.
First, African health-care planners and disease specialists must set country, regional, and local containment targets.
At the moment, most state and regional health-care systems lack funding and human resources.
Still, sustaining this progress in Africa will require significant regional coordination, not to mention a lot more money.
Finally, confidence-building does not happen in a vacuum, but within a specific regional and global geopolitical context.
But such measures will be effective only if the regional and global geopolitical environment supports the search for a resolution.
A failure on this front would derail their strengthening domestic and regional growth dynamics.
There will surely be exceptions to this general trend, but there are some stable regional characteristics.
This is a worthy goal that will require compromise and reconciliation at a global, regional, and national level.
Helping it build a new regional order will require all actors, great and small, to accept compromise, as the Lebanese have done.
Proof of China’s displeasure was first seen at the 2008 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (a regional grouping that includes former Soviet countries that share borders with China and Russia).
In Latin America’s seven principal economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela), which together account for almost 90% of regional GDP, annual economic growth averaged 6% in the third quarter of 2006, while industrial output was up by 8%.
The Obama administration had been pressing Abe not to aggravate regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni – an entreaty reiterated by Vice President Joe Biden during a recent stopover in Tokyo on his way to Beijing.
And he supports Japan’s entry into the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, an emerging regional trading bloc that will exclude China.
What is at stake are not merely islands in the East and South China Seas, but a rules-based regional order, freedom of navigation of the seas and skies, access to maritime resources, and balanced power dynamics in Asia.
Some newspapers have stoked the country’s ethnic and regional animosities, and can be wildly inaccurate in their reporting.
Last spring, 200 US Marines arrived in Darwin, Australia, for the first six-month rotation to serve and train alongside Australian troops and operate with regional partners.
At that point, the Thai people, buffeted by domestic polarization and regional challenges, will have to muster their once-famous negotiation skills to achieve a workable compromise based on their shared interests.
A regional and sector-wide approach is critical to improving coordination and preventing duplication.
Loyalty to a perceived identity can have innocuous and enriching components, such as, say, the promotion of a regional language.
It was underpinned by institutions like the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which later became the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, as well as regional security arrangements, such as NATO.
In the aftermath of the various bailouts associated with the eurozone financial crisis that began in 2009, the notion that German taxpayers should foot the bill for regional support does not sit well with the country’s politicians or public.
More broadly, regional balance-of-payments data show that eurozone investors have been the largest foreign purchasers of US Treasury securities since the APP began.
To be sure, the US is plagued by rising economic inequality, regional and rural-urban income disparities, job insecurity, declining social mobility, and political polarization.
This leaves Iran the opening it needs to place a strategic bet that the Syrian conflict will generate increasing friction between the West and Iran’s regional archrival, Saudi Arabia.
For Iran, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a weaker US-Saudi relationship is key to shifting the regional balance of power – especially if it is accompanied by the easing of Western economic sanctions.
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