Word: regionalization
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Villepin emphasized that taking responsibility in the region is necessary to restore global equilibrium...
...There is a lot of reason to feel pessimistic about the Middle East. But we have also today some possibility there that should help us to see the future of the region,” he said, citing Syria as an example of a nation that could profit economically from stability...
Western diplomats hope those pragmatists will ultimately gain the upper hand, but their ascendancy would likely be halted if Tehran and Washington went to war. And so the question is whether, having got so much wrong about the region over the past four years, the U.S. and its allies can get this one right...
...anger-management session. Five years ago, Bush turned his back on Latin America - petulantly disengaging from issues that mattered most to Latin capitals like immigration reform and U.S. agriculture subsidies - because most of its nations refused to back his Iraq invasion. Since then, much of the region has turned leftward and anti-U.S. Bush was reminded about this at each stop of his five-nation tour - and each time his initial reaction was to hunch his shoulders, flash that exasperated look and angrily deny...
...Mexico relations. Calderon defeated his own left-wing opponent last summer by only half a percentage point, and few countries feel more resentful about Bush's recent snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers the free market-minded Calderon his "anti-Chavez" in the region, Calderon knew he could score points with Mexicans who voted against him by publicly chastising Bush this week on matters like Washington's nagging failure to adopt immigration reform...