Word: regionality
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...officials believe the encounter is an opportunity to "put the Iranians on the record, at the ministerial level, that they are making commitments to the Iraqis to help solve their problems." Washington hopes that if Iran makes security commitments to Iraq's government and the governments of the region, the onus will be on Tehran to curb its covert meddling and make a positive contribution. Such engagement is premised less on the idea that more radical elements in Iran's leadership will change their ways than on the prospects for a more pragmatic outlook in Tehran...
...TENET: I wasn't in the same geopolitical strategic loop. It brought the town a certain fixation about regime change in Iraq as the means and mechanism by which we will change the face of the Middle East and democratize the region. This was a compelling, unstated, overwhelming, you know, thought process on the part of these folks. This was the way to transform a region that needed transformation. And they thought about this in macro, big terms, sometimes without much understanding of the cultural context that this was all going to occur in. There was a quality of that...
...November 29, 2006, Radio Universidad, the radio station of the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca was officially forced off the air by police. The police, incensed by the leftist politics and popularity of the station among Oaxaca residents, shut its operations down after conflict in the Oaxaca region...
Using examples from around the region, Mallat outlined reasons for the lack of stable democracy there. In each case, he said the ruling parties and factions exclude minorities, and posited that majoritarianism is incompatible with true democracy...
Rebuilding a city isn't just about clearing away the wreckage and starting over from scratch - at least not when there are pieces worth saving. That's especially true in New Orleans, where many Creole townhouses and shotgun homes were built from centuries-old cypress native to the region and dense oak boards pulled from the sides of barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques...