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Ashley J. Tellis suggests that given the new American investments in South Asia, President Bush ought to save General Musharraf from his own worst instincts.
<P>An American-brokered accord between Pakistan and Afghanistan to end the latent dispute over the Durand Line, coupled with international guarantees to end Pakistan’s meddling in Afghanistan, might be the minimum requirements for durable peace in the region where the 9/11 plot to attack the U.S. was hatched.</P>
Many critics suggest that Judith Miller’s eagerness to publish articles that strongly suggested Saddam Hussein already had or was acquiring an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was the primary reason Americans went to war. However, the Times, along with The Post and other news organizations, ran many alarming stories about Iraq's weapons programs before the election of George W. Bush.
As voters in Azerbaijan go to the polls, they will participate in an election whose conduct will serve as a referendum on U.S. efforts to spread democracy. A free and fair election will signal that Islam, oil and democracy can coexist. A tainted vote will affirm that those elements don't mix well, and show that the West is indifferent to democracy when oil and military bases are at stake.
The spread of terrorism and subversive activity in the North Caucasus under Vladimir Putin indicate a need for fresh policy thinking; instead, Putin and the bureaucracy have clamped down, blaming the problem on international terrorists and ignoring rampant corruption and disaffection in Russia's border lands.
The Bush administration is finally taking the task of communicating with the Muslim world seriously. President Bush’s roving ambassador to the Islamic world, Karen Hughes, will need to talk to the people rather than listen to the elites, if she is to succeed in improving the country's abysmal record on public diplomacy.
Early in his tenure as general secretary of the Soviet Communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev took a radical first step toward reversing decades of Soviet isolation from the outside world with his quest for a "common European home."
For the past decade Central Asia has been cast as the site of a new "great game," with the United States vying for influence with Russia and China.
Mubarak's victory represented a step toward opening up a persistently autocratic regime. It revitalized the political scene and partially minimized citizens' apathy toward politics. However, to describe the election as a historic breakthrough or as a shift toward a new pattern of state-society relationship is misleading. The election was not competitive and its conduct clearly undemocratic.
