... elections Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani Abdullah Abdullah Barack Obama Pakistan George Bush Taliban Mullah Omar al-Qaeda Islamic State China 136 What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Afghanistan...

... USAID corruption ghani ashraf Abdullah marshall Kabul corridor NATO Najibullah 137 If the international community wants to secure the real gains it has made in Afghanistan, it needs to stop obsessing about the troop drawdown and begin fig- uring out how to avert the funding drawdown...

...Ashraf El Sherif It makes no sense today to divide Arab politics into neatly crafted opposites, the ‘Islamist’ versus the ‘civil democratic’ blocs. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Ashraf El Sherif Islamism Arab Spring...

...Augustus Richard Norton; Ashraf el-Sherif Uprisings in North Africa have electrified the world and inaugurated a new era in the region, but their outcomes are uncertain. The old order could yet prove resilient. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University...