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The InternationaList: June 8, 2008 issue
5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
To understand how Dear Leader managed the turnaround, it's important to debunk a few myths. First, the North Koreans haven't been living in caves for the past two decades. Instead, with help from Beijing, Pyongyang has revamped its outdated infrastructure, including important mining facilities. Second, the North doesn't have to rely on the black market to support itself. True, Pyongyang has sold missiles to Iran, Syria and Pakistan, but annual revenue from such exports is only about $100 million, and other illicit activities like drug trafficking and counterfeiting add very little to that sum.
Between Delhi and D.C.
Sumit Ganguly 5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
Since the Congress Party's huge win in India's elections was announced on May 16, pundits across the country and in the United States have predicted that the warming relations between Delhi and D.C. are now sure to grow even closer. After all, Congress has finally rid itself of the troublesome coalition partners that were holding it back; surely now it will press forward on the issues that matter most to Washington, such as strengthening the two countries' budding security partnership.
Pakistan’s Anger
Eleanor Clift 5/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
I was told that the five female members from the Pakistani Parliament visiting Washington this week were interested in women and politics in America, and so I was unprepared for their real agenda, which was to tell the media how disappointed they are that President Obama has adopted his predecessor's policies when it comes to Pakistan. They shouldn't have been surprised. Obama said during the campaign that he would fight the Afghanistan war harder. The escalation impacts the Pakistani side of the border, which serves as a sanctuary for Al Qaeda, and is likely where Osama bin may someday be found.
VIEWPOINT
E Pluribis Islam?
Irshad Manji 4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
At a recent event in India, I asked Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, whether he would support his country's tireless human-rights activists. He invited me to pose a different question. I didn't.
INTERVIEW
Worst Job in the World
Lally Weymouth 2/7/2009 12:00:00 AM
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, leads a fractious Parliament that is facing at once a major economic crisis, a spreading border insurgency and still-tense relations with his country's powerful military. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Excerpts:
INTERNATIONAL
A Turnaround Strategy
Fareed Zakaria 1/31/2009 12:00:00 AM
In May 2006 a unit of American soldiers in Afghanistan's Uruzgan valley were engulfed in a ferocious fire fight with the Taliban. Only after six hours, and supporting airstrikes, could they extricate themselves from the valley. But what was most revealing about the battle was the fact that many local farmers spontaneously joined in, rushing home to get their weapons. Asked later why they'd done so, the villagers claimed they didn't support the Taliban's ideological agenda, nor were they particularly hostile toward the Americans. But this battle was the most momentous thing that had happened in their valley for years. If as virile young men they had stood by and just watched, they would have been dishonored in their communities. And, of course, if they were going to fight, they could not fight alongside the foreigners.