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<P>Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis explains why the diplomatic interactions between the United States and India are simply too complicated to be transformed simply by successes in military-to-military relations. </P>
What was an emerging opposition in Iraq is now a full-fledged insurgency. The United States is still without a political strategy that recognizes this reality. As a result, the military is forced into a stop-go-stop hesitancy in which soldiers' lives are being wasted and security continues to worsen.
<P><EM>Garton Ash's account of Britain's position, and the responses adopted to their national dilemma by British citizens, is the strongest part of his book. He is particularly good at demolishing myths, such as the re-creation of Churchill by the British and American Right as an anti-European Atlanticist.</EM> </P>
<B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2> <P>Now that the rest of Latin America is moving in the direction of democracy, Venezuela seems to be slipping down the opposite path</P></B></FONT>
<P>The current US domestic policy has lead to a divergence between the forms of capitalism of western Europe and the United States, with the latter more reminiscent of the past rightwing nationalist movements in Europe.</P>
<IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: left; PADDING-TOP: 4px" src="http://carnegieendowment.org/images/article_images/20080703-Worker60.jpg">In an article in the<EM> Journal of International Law and Policy</EM>, Sandra Polaski analyzes labor clauses in trade agreements to identify approaches that are most likely to achieve the goals of improved working conditions and greater rights for workers. She finds that one key to success involves aligning the incentives facing private firms with those facing governments.
There are two contradictions between China's internal dynamics and the requirements of an internationalist foreign policy. First, because nationalism legitimizes the Communist party, Beijing's leaders will be tempted to sacrifice long-term diplomatic objectives for short-term political gains. Second, a liberal internationalist foreign policy is incompatible with China's illiberal governance.