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Pakistan’s Elections: A Victory for the Status Quo

The Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N), headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will regain control of the government. Mr. Sharif represents old-school Pakistani…

May 28, 2013

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After a Decade of Achievement, It Is Time to Move Beyond Fistula

Fistula is an assault on human dignity. It is difficult to write about, let alone treat. Let us therefore hail The Campaign to End Fistula, which was launched by the UN…

May 27, 2013

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Defending with Declining Means

Even as America continues its withdrawal from Afghanistan, a crucial problem is emerging for the U.S. defense establishment. It must meet an increasing variety of threats with…

May 16, 2013

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Flower of the Burma Spring

Among the crowd of National League for Democracy leaders gathered on that rainy June day, no one seemed to consider the possibility that the government might not keep its. …

May 16, 2013

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American Power at Home and Abroad: Success, Failures, and Challenges

GJIA: Looking back over your time as National Security Advisor, what do you consider to be the greatest triumph of the policy you helped craft? What is your biggest regret in…

May 16, 2013

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Nukes, Lies, and International Organization

Mohamed ElBaradei’s book, The Age of Deception, highlights three emerging, important, and interwoven issues related to the prevention of nuclear proliferation: the prevalence…

May 16, 2013

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Financial Reform, A View from the Trenches

John A. Allison. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013. 320 pp. .00. Relatively few successful executives go on to write about their…

May 16, 2013

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Russian Arctic Resource Development and Related Policy Considerations

The Arctic’s importance has grown by virtue of its enormous energy holdings and the prospect of increased year-round navigation due to regional climate change. The convergence…

May 16, 2013

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India-Pakistan Trade: Opportunities and Constraints

Pakistan’s decision to grant India most-favored-nation (MFN) status in November 2011, which came fifteen years after India granted MFN status to Pakistan, represents a…

May 16, 2013

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Vietnam at a Crossroad and in the Cross Hairs

For the past two decades, Vietnam has been a country on the move. GDP per capita in 1990 was , among the lowest in world.1 Today, with per capita income at roughly 00, Vietnam…

May 16, 2013