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This is not to argue that Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman Sachs be given seats in the United Nations General Assembly, but it does mean including representatives of such organizations in regional and global deliberations when they have the capacity to affect whether and how regional and global challenges are met.
Unless the Iranian regime is terminally humbled in the course of its showdown with the West over its nuclear program, the more plausible scenario is that Shia-dominated Iraq moves closer to Iran’s strategic orbit rather than become part of America's regional designs.
Abandoning the freedom agenda would reaffirm the still-popular notion that all the US really cares about in the Middle East is oil and Israeli security, at the expense of everything else, including regional development and the well-being of the Arab and Muslim peoples.
In a carefully crafted statement, Xi laid out China’s vision for a new regional security order – one in which, as the slogan suggests, Asians are in charge.
At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable; after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.
But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.
On the contrary, the region is notable for a lack of meaningful regional agreements and institutions, particularly in the political-military and security spheres.
In fact, the regional security climate has worsened in recent years.
China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy – including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas – that would be described diplomatically as “assertive,” and more bluntly as “bullying.”
From there, regional pacts that promote free trade and contend with climate change should be negotiated.
Finally, a regional forum should be established to regulate better the deployment of military force, including confidence-building measures to reduce the risk of incidents and to help manage them if they occur.
Argentina exports corn, soybeans, fruits, and wine – as well as cars and auto parts to the rest of the regional Mercosur trade bloc, where it enjoys ample tariff protection against third-country competition.
Competition to control water has already played a key role in regional geopolitical tensions, for instance, between Turkey and Syria;Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority;Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia; and between Saudi Arabia and its neighbors, Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan.
Criminal networks distort the most important sources of change: globalization, technology, open markets, regional cooperation, and democracy.
In five years, if ocean decline continues and adequate prevention measures have not been implemented, the international community should consider turning the high seas – with the exception of those areas where action by regional fisheries management organizations is effective – into a regeneration zone where industrial fishing is forbidden.
In particular, whereas the Saudis view Iran as the main source of the regional crisis, the US is engaged in the most sensitive negotiations with the Iranians since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Any other approach will merely fuel further regional turmoil.
The sectarian divide underlies the latent struggle for regional control between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Third, with the regional Sunni-Shia conflict intensifying, the prospect of tens of billions of petrodollars backing terrorist extremists has already destabilized the region.
America’s regional position weakened, and Iran’s strengthened, following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq;US intervention in Syria could reproduce that pattern.
Al Qaeda affiliates will target US regional interests in the hope that the blame falls on Iran and its militant proxies – providing a pretext for US military confrontation.
By acknowledging the Armenian genocide, Turkey would establish itself as a mature democracy and reinforce its standing as a legitimate regional power.
This would enhance geopolitical stability by strengthening Turkey’s capacity to mediate and support initiatives in regional contexts where impunity reigns, such as in Israel, Palestine, Syria, and Sudan.
Better policies at the national, regional, and global levels are also essential – and that requires better politics.
And Russia's leadership remains committed to its disruptive regional adventures, regardless of their devastating impact on its economy.
Turkey’s Lonely Neighborhood WatchISTANBUL – For nearly a decade, Turkey benefited from a strategic environment that allowed it to raise its profile, widen its zone of autonomous action, and aspire to regional power in the Middle East.
Libya’s popular uprising, for example, left Turkey’s government caught between the country’s economic interests and its unilateralist regional inclinations, on the one hand, and its traditional alliances, on the other.
At one level, Syria’s crisis is Turkey’s moment, but it also highlights the limits of Turkey’s unilateralism and prowess as a regional power.
For better or worse, the status quo in the Middle East has unraveled, and Turkey must reassess and recalibrate its regional policies.
He also hopes to sign and implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which China initiated several years ago to counter the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, next year (an overly ambitious target unlikely to be achieved, owing to the complexities of multi-party trade deals).
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