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His administration also devoted enormous energy to building and strengthening regional institutions.
Those decisions demonstrated his resolve to uphold Egypt’s role as a force for regional stability, which implied refusing to allow his ideology to drive him toward a radical foreign policy.
Last October, Yar’Adua joined South Africa and Libya in opposing US plans to deploy AFRICOM, its new African regional military command, on the continent.
Japan is keen, but its views on regional monetary cooperation do not match China’s.
In fact, given the interconnectedness of today’s global economy, better education in one country can bring benefits far beyond regional borders.
The country’s Sparkassen – savings banks with a collective balance sheet of some €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) – are outside the European Central Bank’s supervisory control, while thinly capitalized mega-banks, such as Deutsche Bank, and the country’s rotten state-owned regional lenders have obtained an implausibly clean bill of health.
But now its concern is more closely tied to regional politics than to the Kurdish issue.
And now it is seen as a major testing ground for Sino-American rivalry, with China stretching its new wings, and the United States trying to clip them enough to maintain its own regional and global primacy.
The regional powers behind Assad’s regime include Iran and Russia, which has a naval base on Syria’s Mediterranean coastline.
Local and regional actors that placed their faith in America’s commitments will pay a bloody price.
Russia’s coordination with all major regional powers – including Turkey, a NATO member – attests to the dynamism (and cynicism) of the Kremlin’s foreign policy.
Iran is now the most influential regional power in Syria, as it is in Iraq and Lebanon.
There are legitimate concerns that Israel might use the withdrawal of US troops as a pretext to intensify its attacks on Iran and Hezbollah in Syria – a decision that could escalate into all-out regional conflict, one that draws in the US, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s main rival for regional hegemony.
The leaders of the Americas now have an opportunity to challenge Maduro’s impunity and restore regional stability and security.
Maduro’s rigid adherence to Chavismo is a significant threat to regional stability.
Throughout the post-war period, the US has backstopped collective security through NATO and other institutions, and it has been more than willing to brave regional and global threats, often with few friends at its side.
Therefore, on a regional level, a large part of the additional resources were used to increase public spending, especially for social security, health, and education, in that order.
What if market-fundamentalist politics specifically prohibits the income redistribution or regional, industrial, and education subsidies that could compensate those who suffer from free trade and labor-market “flexibility”?
Barack Obama’s just concluded visit to Asia may be no different, for his trip left Asia and its leaders wondering just what sort of regional community they are building.
In the interest of regional peace, both major powers must stop letting historical resentments obstruct a more harmonious and prosperous future for the Asia-Pacific region.
The strategic test will be for regional organizations – such as APEC – to ensure that the spirit of cooperation always outweighs the member states’ competitive impulses.
An Economic Ultimatum for the Arab WorldWASHINGTON, DC – If Middle Eastern countries do not start making real progress on fundamental political and economic reforms, further regional turmoil is inevitable.
None of this should be surprising, given how our corrupt rulers systematically incite regional and ethnic hatred.
For, even if the calamities predicted by the prophets of doom are the most likely scenario, why are they a greater threat to the West than they are to regional powers like India, China, Russia, and Iran (for which the Sunni Taliban are a dangerous ideological challenge).
So, while the US gets to play the “Ugly American” once again, the regional powers promote their interests in that war-torn country with a smiling face and away from the battlefield.
While the West is busy fighting the Taliban, the Russians, like the other regional powers, are building roads and electricity stations, and conceiving regional diplomatic solutions to what has become a Vietnam-like quagmire for the West.
If both war and diplomacy fail, these regional powers believe they will be better positioned than the West to shift the Afghan Great Game in their favor.
Malaise has grown ever more acute after many Bolivian political leaders and their supporters, worn down by the regional crisis of the 1990's, expressed doubts over the modernization process.
Brazil’s openness, by contrast, is limited by the strictures of Mercosur, a regional grouping whose commitment to growth through trade is shaky at best.
Do-No-Harm DevelopmentPARIS – International financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other regional development and investment banks, have increasingly emphasized the importance of participation, good governance, and accountability in the countries where they disburse funds.
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