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Separatism was never a threat here, but ever since the Soviet invasion in 1979, the country has been a theater of war for global and regional conflicts.
At first, the war in Afghanistan was a war of liberation against the Red Army; then it turned into a civil war, and from the mid-1990’s it was subsumed in the Indian-Pakistani conflict, as Pakistan sought to achieve strategic depth and regional influence via the Taliban, a creation of the Pakistani secret service, the ISI.
A relapse into regional war and Islamist terror?
If the US and NATO leave Afghanistan to its own devices without first creating a minimum of regional stability, it is all but certain that the Islamist danger will return in relatively short order, and will be greater than it was in the 1990’s.
But regional stability primarily requires the clarification of Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan.
It is in Pakistan’s capital that a regional solution will have to be negotiated, and the conditions for success are by no means hopeless, though it involves the far more complicated – and rarely mentioned – issue of Indian-Pakistani relations.
The irony, however, is that withdrawal might lead the West into a new, far more dangerous regional war as Iran proceeds toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons.
The IFFEd would bring together bilateral donors, the World Bank, and regional development banks in a coordinated manner, enabling them to pool their resources and leverage idle capital where appropriate.
Syria’s borders with Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel also present unique challenges to regional security, given the potential not only for international conflict, but also for destabilizing cross-border flows of refugees.
In short, advocates of cooperation call for an open and explicit bargain: Iran's support for stability during the current transitional phase in Iraq, as well as its commitment to maintain cooperative relations with whatever permanent government emerges in Iraq, in exchange for an improvement in Iran's regional and international position.
In response, they believe that Iran must be aggressive in defending its interests, forming strategic alliances with Russia and other regional powers, and using Iran's influence in Iraq to prevent a pro-American, anti-Iran government from emerging in Baghdad.
Iran is destined to remain a major regional player because its political dynamism and Muslim identity resonate widely in the Muslim world.
Indeed, amid the vast uncertainty created by Trump’s victory, a new relationship now makes more strategic sense than ever, given changing global circumstances, regional geopolitics, and domestic challenges in both the US and China.
By contrast, inequality largely declined in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, although these regions’ average regional Gini coefficients still exceed Asia’s.
Over the last decade, MNCs have increasingly expressed interest in establishing regional and global headquarters and R&D centers in Shanghai.
As of September 2012, Shanghai was home to 393 MNCs’ regional headquarters.
China’s future competitiveness also depends on its integration into a new wave of global and regional regulatory regimes.
Exports to Russia are the difference between life and death for regional industrial and agricultural producers.
The first is regional: Latin American countries experienced a sharp reduction in their debt ratios from 2003 to 2008.
Nuclear or conventional war on the Korean Peninsula would carry incalculable regional and global risks.
This is why Syria’s civil war is now a geopolitical battle for regional domination, with multiple fractures along sectarian lines.
More regional pressure is needed – and quickly – if further violent disorder is to be averted.
Globalization and technological innovation are not painless processes, so there will always be a need for retraining initiatives, lifelong education, mobility and income-support programs, and regional transfers.
As European history since 1945 has demonstrated, shared economic interests can provide a solid foundation for building both regional security, and ushering in historic reconciliations.
So any sustained cooperation with the US and its regional allies – Japan and South Korea – would only help America to shackle China.
And, when peace was restored, they would find themselves back at square one, still needing to build a regional order in which the others would play a big part.
If the international community is to remain credible, a regional initiative for collective security – a Madrid II – needs to be taken.
To promote a regional perspective, Mexico, Canada, and the US must consider establishing an institutional forum where such discussions can take place and where recommendations to governments can emerge.
Another example of the new regional agenda can be found in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11 th .
Having created a functioning, regional, open trade area, the three countries must ensure that the new imperative to secure borders does not obstruct legitimate flows of goods, services and people.
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