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Turkey is a true regional superpower, with one of the largest armies in the world.
The uneasy challenge for Turkey is to secure its newfound regional role without betraying Ataturk’s democratic legacy.
Turkey can be a model for Middle Eastern countries if, while promoting its regional strategic and economic interests, it resists the authoritarian temptation and continues to show that Islam and democracy are fully compatible.
The Arabs’ capacity to maintain their pressure on Israel and to keep world opinion focused on the Palestinians’ plight made Israel’s quest for evading the consequences of the conflict, either through periodic wars or by forging alternative regional alliances, a futile exercise.
That progress is taking place at a regional level too: a regional investment compact, a regional anti-corruption initiative, media reform.
That process will bring – is already starting to bring – substantial benefits to the region in terms of trade access, political dialogue, and regional co-operation.
The next American president, it is clear, will have to rethink US regional strategy.
Geopolitics is moving decisively away from a world dominated by Europe and the United States to one with many regional powers but no global leader.
We are also shifting from a unipolar world, led mainly by the US, to a truly multipolar world, in which the US, the EU, the BRICS, and smaller powers (such as Nigeria and Turkey) carry regional weight but are reticent to assume global leadership, especially its financial burdens.
By creating regional, national, and even global job markets, they allow employers to tap into broader talent pools and connect job seekers with a wider universe of opportunities.
The right to equality would exist in all areas of activity regulated by domestic, international or regional law.
Water can be a catalyst for regional cooperation, opening the way to a future comprehensive “Community of Water and Energy” to enhance the human environment.
An agreement would enable Colombia – an important regional ally of the United States – to shift its attention and resources to economic and social development.
But the region’s ability to meet the many challenges that it faces has been complicated by national, regional, and international disagreements about what form change – both across the region and in individual societies – should take.
This also reflects the fact that central features in many governments’ domestic and regional agendas are not even of their own making, but were imposed from outside the region.
This will undoubtedly take time and patience, and it will require governments to determine their own destiny and deter regional adventurism by some Arab states.
To the US, China is a big-data dictatorship that has detained one million Uighurs in concentration camps, cracked down on Christians, curtailed civil rights, and destroyed the environment – all while building up its military and threatening America’s regional allies.
And by establishing its first overseas military base in Djibouti, it has signaled that it has global – not merely regional – ambitions.
The radical polarization of the Andean region between those two countries will create difficulties in building regional consensus and security problems in the Amazon, as well as weakening the Brazilian project for South American political and economic integration.
Finally, another major consequence of the US-Colombia deal are the doubts that it has created in Latin America about President Barack Obama’s administration, and about the future of relations between the US and South America, especially Brazil, the main regional power.
Creating an international force for southern Lebanon makes sense only as an investment in regional peace, not as an appendix to Israel’s current strategy.
In my book The Growth Map, I describe my unforgettable first visit to Gurgaon, a municipality near Delhi that serves as a regional financial and industrial hub.
The Fund is also hoping to establish a new “Global Stabilization Mechanism” to provide credit lines to regional groupings (like the EU).
Monetary policy is, in principle, decided by the Federal Open Market Committee, which includes 12 voting members: the seven Fed governors, the president of the New York Fed, and four presidents of the other 11 regional Federal Reserve Banks (who serve on a one-year rotating basis).
Instead, that process should begin with a structured conversation on topics of concern for regional actors.
Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration.
Today’s haphazard, overlapping regional integration is proving largely ineffective, and this severely hampers African countries’ ability to compete in international markets.
After all, Pakistan is a nuclear-armed, terrorist-spawning regional power.
Given weak national and regional capacities in the continent’s tax and revenue agencies, there is a need to create a regional transfer pricing advisory body that will bring together tax administrators, accounting and tax advisors, and multinationals, to serve as a platform for experience-sharing and consultation.
For the most part, however, disparities in rules governing transfer pricing within the regional common markets offer loopholes that can be exploited by foreign companies.
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