Word: regionalization
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...willing to put its weight behind the peace process. But in looking to score points in the Middle East, Bush is likely to be as disappointed as his predecessors. That's because the core of his strategy to bolster moderate Arab states and moderate Palestinians while shunning the region's radicals is a case of too little too late. The sad reality is that the moderates of the Arab world have little to offer Israel and less and less power to promote peace in the Middle East...
...forces in border areas now that it is free of the CFE treaty. Last month, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who increasingly positions himself as Putin's hawkish potential successor, said that Russia would deploy its newly tested Iskander-M cruise missiles in is westernmost Kaliningradsky region, wedged among Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, unless the U.S. scraps its defense shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Ivanov's threats only infuriated Poland and made Lithuania consider asking the U.S. for deploying its ABM on its soil as well. However, cruise and new MIRVED ICBM missiles, promised...
...local varieties. Recognizing the value of a voluntary program - something that many other states failed to do - PlantRight doesn't call for outright statewide bans of any invasive species. Instead it makes recommendations based on climatic zones and acknowledges that plants that are harmful to California's coastal region may be perfectly suitable, say, to its deserts...
...Asia has fixed many of its own problems. But by being voracious buyers of U.S. government debt, the region is allowing America to live beyond its means. At some point the U.S. consumer is going to run out of steam and Asia is going to be hurt. China is especially vulnerable to being whipsawed. If the U.S. economy slows modestly, China and the region can handle the adjustment without too much pain, especially if they take the stiff medicine of currency appreciation and shift to a policy of increased domestic demand. The danger will occur if the U.S. slumps badly...
...security official, compared the current situation to that which prevailed during the summer of 2001. "We are in a similar situation at the moment," Hanning told the German parliament. "We see there are active structures at work again. We received evidence that actions are planned in the region, but also in Europe and the U.S." A German official, asking not to be named , explained this week that the new assessment was based on the fact that "al-Qaeda has recovered the operational quality that it had in the past." Recent intelligence, he said, had tracked Islamists who had been based...