Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Today's elections in Pakistan, perhaps the most important in the nation's history, provide an excellent opportunity for the United States to change its long-standing, long-failing policies there. If the election is a sham that favors Musharraf's party, or if the army takes power once again and the United States says nothing, average Pakistanis will become even more alienated, and will continue believing that, when push comes to shove, Washington will always stand behind the generals. If the party of the deceased Benazir Bhutto, or that of Nawaz Sharif, another former prime minister, triumphs, and Washington simply switches its Yber-close relationship from Musharraf to the new Pakistani leader, it will lose a rare and important chance to help build Pakistan's democratic institutions, like the media and independent judiciary.
Carnegie Endowment visiting scholar Josh Kurlantzick published an article in Time Magazine, where he discussed new sanction measures against Burma.
When new estimates of purchasing power parity were released last December, economic understanding of the world suddenly shifted: incomes in many emerging economies are significantly lower than previously thought. Branko Milanovic explains how this revelation will greatly affect our comprehension of poverty, global inequality, and the speed of economic growth.
Bernard Gwertzman from the Council on Foreign Relations interviews Carnegie Endowment's senior associate, Ashley J. Tellis.
In the autumn 2007 issue of Survival, Ashley J. Tellis argues that China’s recent anti-satellite weapons test was part of a considered strategy designed to counter the overall military capability of the United States, and that "the United States has no choice but to run an offense–defense arms race, and win."
Carnegie’s Ashley J. Tellis appeared on BBC World to discuss Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London.
Carnegie's Karim Sadjadpour compares the turmoil in Pakistan to conditions that led to the 1979 fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, in a Project Syndicate article. "Once again, a 'pro-American' autocrat seems to be rapidly losing his grip on power, with his U.S. ally only half-heartedly standing by him."
The United States must shift its counterterrorism policy towards Pakistan away from a reciprocal approach—requiring Islamabad to perform desirable actions to receive support—towards one encouraging Pakistan to enact effective counterterrorism policies, not for an immediate payoff, but to strengthen institutionalized trust with the U.S. over time,
In testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, Ashley J. Tellis emphasized that the United States should focus its efforts in Pakistan on ensuring a credible and legitimate electoral process whose outcome is acceptable to the Pakistani people, and not on securing political outcomes that favor Musharraf.