The US government, however, endorsed the justice's illegal removal, seeing the court's insistence on constitutional accountability for Musharraf as complicating its regional objectives.
But there are no regional objectives that could possibly justify incurring the hatred of millions of Muslims and the disgust of millions of Europeans and others around the world.
They have seen Washington turn a blind eye to human-rights abuses and antidemocratic practices because of a desire to pursue regional objectives — Israeli security in the case of Egypt, and fighting Al Qaeda in the case of Pakistan.
An indifference to high returns, and a susceptibility to meddling by politicians, have tended to skew lending to fit regional objectives, seeing off private competition.Under existing Basel rules, as Tobias Grün of HSBC points out, the Landesbanken may include a higher proportion of dated hybrid instruments in their tier-one capital than other banks.
While this is Assad's only sensible option, it could prove to be a short-term fix, since concessions to U.S. regional objectives carry longer-term domestic risks for him.
The approach to elicit and rank goals and objectives developed in this study can be used to effectively support coastal resource management by providing opportunities for local communities to participate in the setting of regional objectives.
Due to their general high agricultural production potential, based on relatively high and secure water availability and high soil fertility levels compared to the surrounding uplands, these landscapes could play a pivotal role in attaining the regional objectives of food security and poverty alleviation.
The Syrian crisis, which symbolizes the polarization of Saudi and Russian regional objectives, has come to define how the Saudis and Russians view each other.
Furthermore, although Saudi Arabia shares many of Turkey's regional objectives, both the Saudis and Russians feel threatened by Ankara's pro-Muslim Brotherhood foreign policy.
