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But a clear line in the sand has been drawn between Latin American countries that want to pursue regional integration on their own terms, and those who see hemispheric integration as directed by the US.

Other countries – Bolivia, Chile, the countries of Central America – prefer regional solutions in which they have a clear and equal say.

The eventual formation of a triangle that links Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is likely to be considered a direct threat to regional stability by the United States, which would have dangerous consequence of putting Latin America atop the security agenda of the Bush administration.

Indeed, local problems are likely to exacerbate regional tensioins.

The dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over navigation on the San Juan River, and the heated jurisdictional arguemnts between Colombia and Venezuela also help raise regional tempers.

The problem is not just about illegal migration to the US, though those Americans who seek to play the anti-immigrant card do antagonize regional sensibilities unnecessarily.

Furthermore, fallout from relentless regional conflict is destabilizing Lebanon, a country that offers Christians a constitutional guarantee of political representation.

Coalitions can be built to address particular issues or on a regional basis; but preserving – let alone deepening – the existing system of global governance will be impossible without US support.

It is likely that Iranian teams have been working on the mechanics of a nuclear explosive device, at least at the blueprint stage, and the country is also developing ballistic missiles that would bring many regional capitals within range of a nuclear attack – Israeli cities, of course, being the obvious targets.

Although many Iranian leaders no doubt toy with the idea, others are carefully weighing the costs of such a venture – the risks of preventive strikes from outside, increased isolation, and a regional nuclear arms race.

Or perhaps the stimulus will be fear that the world is sliding toward protectionism, with bilateral and regional trade agreements like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deepening divisions between their participants and the rest of the world.

The goal now is regional stability.

Maintaining regional balances of power and dampening local incentives to use force to change borders provides a public good for many (but not all) countries.

The Elixir of GrowthCAMBRIDGE: Southeast Asia's financial crisis -- leapfrogging from Thailand to Malaysia to the Philippines and Indonesia -- is far more than a serious regional difficulty, as stock market sell-offs from Hong Kong to Frankfurt to New York demonstrate.

Moreover, Barkat has appointed King to serve as a representative in the city planning and building council and as a replacement representative in the higher regional council.

The major international financial institutions – the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the regional development banks – are having to work hard to make themselves fit for the twenty-first century.

That means resisting the trend, which has lately gained momentum, toward bypassing these institutions in favor of bilateral or regional arrangements.

In the case of the Fed, seven members of the Board in Washington have a federal remit, and twelve presidents of regional reserve banks vote in rotation, with only the New York president having a permanent voice.

So the ratio of central to regional votes is 1:0.7.

Thailand’s opposition politicians, many of whom were educated at top Western universities, may also be open to quiet advice that they are pushing things too far, not only putting Thailand’s stability at risk, but also jeopardizing regional security.

So Hungary's debt crisis posed an opportunity to modernize and transform the country -- particularly Budapest -- into a regional center for trade and finance.

Hungary's international integration makes it more suited to playing a regional role than neighboring countries.

As a result, President Xi Jinping’s image as a commanding leader, along with the presumption of China’s regional dominance, is coming under strain, just months before the critical 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Coalition partners should include key NATO allies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and, most important, Turkey, as well as regional partners like Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and possibly Egypt.

Then, in the early 1960s, Somalis in northern Kenya, with support from the Somali government in Mogadishu, fought for secession, further eroding regional stability and setting the stage for the failure of the Somali state in the early 1990s.

By eliminating Saddam Hussein’s Sunni regime, the US paved the way for a Shia-led government, a development that tilted the regional balance of power toward Iran and left Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia feeling encircled by a Shia coalition.

They know that the fate of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite regime will have significant implications for the regional order.

For Saudi Arabia, reining in Iran is all the more important in the wake of the recent agreement on the country’s nuclear program, which has resulted in the lifting of international economic sanctions that have long constrained Iran’s regional leadership ambitions.

Of course, neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran – or Turkey, which has also joined the competition for regional influence – is seeking a direct confrontation.

Moreover, to buttress its common market, the EC had just established a regional monetary system, the suggestively named “snake in the tunnel.”

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