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But while it would be useful to know North Korea’s true objective – regime survival, global prestige, self-defense, and regional hegemony are the most frequent explanations – it ultimately doesn’t really matter.
For starters, the US must maintain strong ties with its two regional allies – Japan and South Korea.
It should start by streamlining and expanding bilateral and regional relations, not least among and between the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, as well as between Belgium and the Netherlands, and Germany and France.
But one wonders how they might respond to spectacular results for Marine Le Pen’s National Front in next year’s French regional elections or in the presidential election in 2017.
Consider the regional and even global turmoil over Kosovo, South Sudan, Kurdistan, and Crimea.
Most key issues that are vital for national wellbeing – trade, finance, the rule of law, security, and the physical environment – depend at least as much on the presence of effective regional and global institutions.
This is why services exports tend to grow with regional economic and legal integration.
This helps to widen regional disparities, especially between eastern and western China, with the wealthiest regions being those that have benefited from high concentrations of FDI.
The Initiative also envisages the promotion of regional defense reforms and the improvement of interoperability among military forces in the region.
Nevertheless, both the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Initiative suffer from the lack of a real multilateral culture of cooperation in security matters among the main regional players.
Morocco, Algeria, and Libya are hardly partners for such regional cooperation, which is also the case for most Arab countries in the Middle East.
Now, digging into corruption by local police is equivalent to inciting hatred against that “social group,” and “expert” linguists have also found journalists to be “inciting hatred” against employees of regional administrations, judges, and other authorities.
Journalists face threats, attacks, damage to equipment, unfair fines, firing, bans, and other forms of censorship, often soon after publishing some kind of criticism of regional authorities, law enforcement, or wealthy businesspeople.
Nor have the closures spared leading regional outlets like Siberian broadcasterTV-2 or Kaliningrad’s top independent weekly newspaper, Novye Kolesa.
Lacking unified leadership, Libyans reverted to tribal and regional allegiances, at the expense of a shared national identity.
Correspondingly, the international community should back mechanisms that will address the grievances of all Afghans, not just the political elite, and that will seek to address regional strategic concerns and agendas, especially those of Pakistan and Iran.
Given domestic political instability, the government’s opaque nature, and an ever-changing regional context, it is impossible to predict their decision.
Egypt's status as a regional power under Mubarak has similarly weakened steadily.
In addition, at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing and regional tensions are rising because of China’s muscle flexing in the South and East China Seas, Xi seems eager to radiate peace-loving ambitions.
Half-funded, half-coordinated, and half-committed international responses not only threaten regional stability, but also endanger millions of lives.
More interestingly, the report then asks how the Fund should coordinate its operations with regional bodies like the European Commission and the ECB, the other members of the so-called Troika of Greece’s official creditors.
One objection to imposing conditions on the ECB is that the eurozone, as a regional entity, is not an IMF member.
But nothing prevents the IMF from demanding policy commitments from regional bodies when lending to their member governments.
The IEO’s report suggests involving the Board more meaningfully, in order to provide a counterweight to political pressure from regional stakeholders.
But this presupposes freeing the IMF from dependence on financial contributions from its regional stakeholders.
In a scene reminiscent of the intergalactic assembly in Star Wars, participants sat at a large table encircling a map of Eurasia to discuss the emerging world order, great power rivalries, sanction wars, nuclear proliferation, and regional integration projects.
For more than a decade, my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, has studied and compared development options for governments and donor organizations operating at a global, regional, and national level.
While the view that the world is more closely connected than ever before is not seriously contested, its implications are – especially in the debate about the future of regional groupings like the EU.
In fact, in a context of weak global governance, regional associations – including security cooperation, shared rules, and collective endeavors – become even more important.
Iran’s leaders, alarmed that they were being encircled, lost no time in offering the West a grand bargain covering all contentious issues, from nuclear-weapons development – they halted their military nuclear program – to regional security, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and their backing of Hezbollah and Hamas.
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