March 8, 2006
Indian Spring
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President George W. Bush's announcement last week that Washington will tolerate India's nuclear status has drawn fire from analysts who fear the move could undermine nonproliferation efforts everywhere. But such concerns might be overblown or misplaced, according to Indiana University's Sumit Ganguly, who defended an earlier version of the U.S.-Indian nuclear deal on www.foreignaffairs.org last summer. On the other hand, a 2004 article by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, which offered a broad critique of U.S. nonproliferation policy, suggests there still is much to be concerned about.
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International Women's Day: Special Feature
Women, Islam, and the New Iraq
by Isobel Coleman
Although questions of implementation remain, the new Iraqi constitution makes Islam the law of the land. This need not mean trouble for Iraq's women, however. Sharia is open to a wide range of interpretations, some quite egalitarian. If Washington still hopes for a liberal order in Iraq, it should start working with progressive Muslim scholars to advance women's rights through religious channels.
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In the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs
The complete text of selected essays and of all the book reviews from the March/April issue can be found on the Foreign Affairs Web site. Currently the following essays are available in their full text:
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Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
by Paul R. Pillar
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.
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Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon
Stephen Biddle
Most discussions of U.S. policy in Iraq assume that it should be informed by the lessons of Vietnam. But the conflict in Iraq today is a communal civil war, not a Maoist "people's war," and so those lessons are not valid. "Iraqization," in particular, is likely to make matters worse, not better.
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The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press
For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia's decays and China's stays small, the era of MAD is ending — and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.
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The Man Without a Plan
Amartya Sen
In The White Man's Burden, William Easterly offers important insights about the pitfalls of foreign aid. Unfortunately, his overblown attack on global "do-gooders" obscures the real point: that aid can work, but only if done right.
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Previously in Background on the News
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To Be or Not To Be
February 22, 2006
Seven years after the end of the war in Kosovo, the terrority's final status is still up in the air. Formal negotiations about independence for the semi-autonomous province of the federation known as Serbia and Montenegro resume this week, but it is unclear where the talks (among representatives of Serbia, Kosovo, the United States, NATO, and the UN) will lead. . . . Read more
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Beware of What You Wish For
February 8, 2006
Although in his State of the Union address President Bush reiterated his commitment to spreading democracy in the Middle East, recent elections in the region have benefited Islamist radicals most of all. . . . Read more
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Saudi Arabia Forever?
January 25, 2006
Since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita disrupted the world oil market a few months ago, the industry has continued to experience hiccups. Fears over security at oil facilities in Nigeria linger; President Hugo Chávez is still threatening to halt the flow of Venezuelan oil to the United States; and recently both Ukraine and Georgia have experienced disruptions of gas supplies from Russia. . . . Read more
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