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The best hope for long-term peace and prosperity in the region is for the international community to press the Karimov regime to change.
<P align=left><FONT size=1>Visiting Scholar Husain Haqqani reviews Senior Associate Ashley Tellis' policy brief on US Strategic re-making of South Asia. Haqqani notes that this may be the first time the U.S. is basing its South Asia strategy on positive engagement with Pakistan coupled with a clear acknowledgement of India’s ascendance. However, according to Haqqani, the major problem with the American grand strategy for the region is that it is based on assumptions about the intentions of regional players that have been proven incorrect over time.</FONT> </P>
The situation in this strategically located Central Asian state can no longer be answered with platitudes about Islamic threats or empty exhortations to democratic reform. If the Uzbek regime can't or won't fix its problems, then the world community will soon face the choice between intervention and chaos.
In the protests about the now discredited report about the alleged desecration of the Koran, repressive regimes used the bogey of ‘Islamic extremists’ to stamp on public freedom
Iran is threatening to restart its suspended uranium enrichment program. If it does, negotiations with the European Union will collapse and the crisis will escalate. Does the United States -- or Israel -- have a military option?
North Korea has taken a series of actions in the past few months that in normal times would have provoked a major international crisis. Yet, the Bush administration is unconcerned about these moves that directly threaten American security and the security of key US allies South Korea and Japan. The U.S. now appears resigned to the fact that North Korea has the ability to make nuclear weapons and is not prepared to take coercive steps or otherwise to prevent it from consolidating its status as a nuclear weapon state.
McFaul writes that Bush must praise the region's emerging democracies but spank Putin (in private)
Russian liberals and Western observers have criticized Putin’s comment in his April 25, 2005, address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation "that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." If one accepts the premise that he made this statement from the standpoint of a Russian citizen for a Russian audience, it is hard to disagree with.
Behind the ornate institutional façade of Argentina's government lies a weak state that cannot adequately perform tasks that are indispensable to ensuring economic stability, let alone success. Its economic institutions were woefully inadequate. Ignoring this reality proved to be one of the many fatal mistakes that led to the crisis.