Post-Conflict Reconstruction
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Author Interview,
March 4, 2010
This week, Reidar Visser answers reader questions about the upcoming Iraqi elections and the political future of the country.
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Snapshot,
January 27, 2010
The recent ban of more than 500 candidates from Iraq's upcoming elections is designed to cement the power of the country's Shiite Islamists aligned with Iran. Will this latest sectarian rupture sink any hopes for a stable Iraq?
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Letter From,
December 24, 2009
In recent years, international attention on Sudan has focused on Darfur. But the regime in Khartoum has been concerned with its own political survival, and with elections looming in the spring, the country's ruling party is prepared to use repression and intimidation to ensure its victory.
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Snapshot,
December 10, 2009
The Soviet Union came closer than many think to achieving its objectives in Afghanistan. How it almost managed to win -- and why it ultimately did not -- should serve as a lesson for U.S. policymakers today.
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Snapshot,
November 22, 2009
By lowering its sights and concentrating on order, the international community has helped to stabilize Tajikistan. The same cheap, simple approach could work in Afghanistan, too.
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Snapshot,
September 11, 2009
Hezbollah may have lost Lebanon’s election, but it remains the country’s dominant political force.
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Essay,
Sep/Oct
2009
Bosnia was once a poster child for successful postwar reconstruction; today, it is on the verge of collapse. The 1995 Dayton accord ended a war, but it also created a fractured polity ripe for exploitation by ethnic chauvinists.
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Letter From,
August 11, 2009
One year after its war with Russia, Georgia is dispirited and unsure of its future. Has the United States staked too much on this small, fractured country in the Caucasus?
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Snapshot,
August 4, 2009
Sri Lanka has defeated the Tamil Tigers. But more than two months later, the country’s refugee camps are still full and political reconciliation has not begun. Is a lasting peace possible?
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Two new books offer insightful analyses of how to succeed in Afghanistan. But the sheer difficulty of the task points to the need for an alternative strategy -- one that defends U.S. interests without trying to rebuild a shattered country.
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