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For example, China’s regional posture and its strategic relationship with the US will influence German efforts to find multilateral solutions to global challenges like climate change or cyber threats.
Suppression of the Shia is thus a part of the Kingdom’s strategy to counter Iran’s bid for regional hegemony.
In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the Prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.
And China is continuing to engage in – and in some cases escalating – its territorial disputes with regional neighbors.
After World War II, however, Europe rose to the challenge, setting the stage for unprecedented regional cooperation.
Asian economists who promote regional integration in Asia have observed the debate with amazement, in that the fault line is not based on economic philosophy like “Keynesians vs. Neoclassicals” or “Liberals vs. Conservatives,” but on a geographical, transatlantic divide.
But announcing an IMF program (with regional bilateral assistance) was not what calmed markets in South Korea and Indonesia in 1997.
Europeans now have a regional monetary fund, which Asians wanted but could not have.
There is already momentum behind this plan, given the support of the World Bank, the UN, and all the major regional development banks.
Iraq after Saddam Hussein is no longer the unified Arab country that it was; the Kurdish regional government in the north controls a de facto state, and the Shia-Sunni divide may further destabilize the rump.
In Libya (created by Italy in the 1910’s), the deep regional divide between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica has impeded the formation of a coherent unified government.
Regardless of whether Ukraine is “lost,” or who lost it, the country can still offer an attractive future for all of its citizens if unavoidable economic reforms can be made compatible with regional cohesion.
Any such conflict would involve massive loss of life and trigger a large regional, perhaps global, contraction in economic activity.
But Sykes and Picot did bring about a reconciliation between the two great Entente powers, and the regional order they created in the aftermath of centuries of Turkish/Ottoman rule endured.
The European hegemons, Britain and France, took the place of the Sublime Porte, guaranteeing this order either directly or via regional proxies.
The post-Sykes-Picot order will be the result of fighting in the coming years between regional powers – first and foremost Iran and Saudi Arabia – and their religiously motivated auxiliaries, such as the Shia Hezbollah or the Sunni Islamic State.
In the end, total exhaustion on all sides will force reconciliation and the first steps in the direction of a regional peace settlement.
At the same time, regional separatist movements such as those in Catalonia and Scotland challenge the legitimacy of nation-states as they are currently configured and seek their breakup.
But it is time for& the franc zone’s two leading regional groupings – the West African Economic and Monetary Union and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community – to& begin playing a decisive role in overhauling the franc zone’s architecture.
He said that he had instructions - from the Executive Mansion in Monrovia - to send a message to Nigeria, the leading troop contributor and financier of the regional peacekeeping force, ECOMOG.
If not openly committed to opposing Western values and interests, China’s interests in cowing Taiwan and in asserting regional hegemony across Asia certainly are not those of Europe and the West, not to mention Japan, India, and the rest of Asia.
The US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America have constructed a regional legal framework, which must not be abandoned, to defend democratic rule and human rights in the hemisphere.
Cuba needs to return to the regional concert of powers, but it must accept this concert’s rules.
Despite talk of strengthening regional cooperation, a framework for dealing with migration remains an elusive prospect.
Last month, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar outlined their views on regional linkages at the Asia Society’s New York headquarters.
But Australia’s new policy on “irregular maritime arrivals” undermines regional cooperation.
According to Khar, “It is no coincidence that the beginnings of the Asian century are rooted in regional connectivity and cooperation….The less heralded secret of growing Asian economies is the ability of many of these economies to work together.”
During the subsequent two centuries, Persia confronted the Ottoman Empire – the heart of the Sunni caliphate – for regional supremacy.
But progress toward ending the war in Yemen – which is at an earlier stage than the Syrian war, and entails fewer international and regional interests – is possible, especially given Saudi Arabia’s economic travails.
High Tech provides 28% of East Asian and Pacific regional exports.
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