... Pakistan Taliban Haqqani Network al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden NATO United States Tribal Areas Balochistan Jamiat-e Islami-yi Afghanistan General Zia ul Haq George Bush Barack Obama 136 Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing...

... 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...

... of the University of California Humeira Iqtidar Pakistan internal divides demands army military chasm America cleavages covert operations Khyber pakhtunkhwa balochistan Sindh tribal areas iran bush Nawaz sharif bizar chaudhry shehbaz Islamabad PTI tehreek-e-insaf dharna sit...

... Vietnam asia-pacific Moscow Beijing shinzo bush CCP party-state revisionism voldemort senso-ron Yoshinori Bengal fringe war record bellwether east 218 China . . . is determined that it will have greater influence than it enjoys at pres- ent, and it will use historical justifications...

... to the Pakistanis, that you re either with us or against us. Despite the heavy-handed approach and language, the administration of President George W. Bush managed to get its way with the international community, the American people, and even Pakistan, an unlikely partner consider- ing its alliance...

... History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Aryeh Neier human rights movement George Bush war terror responsibility protect sovereignty 325 Books Let s be clear about what this book is and is not. Those expecting a volume...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book details how US policies under George W. Bush helped sour Vladimir Putin on the West, leaving him in the paranoid funk that still colors his outlook today. The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia , by Angus Roxburgh . Macmillan , 2012...

... Arab Spring democracy Hillary Clinton George Bush Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Tunisia Egypt Muslim Brotherhood 14 This is a period laden with potential for the growth of freedom, but also heavy with risks and challenges for the United States. Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions aUgUstUs...

... Bush security Afghanistan strategy George Kennan democracy 19 The United States will have to get used to others saying no when Americans attempt to lead them. America s Outmoded Security Strategy DaviD B. Kanin anD steven e. meyer More than two decades have passed since the end...

... and their relationship to American foreign policy have been framed in recent years by sev- eral factors. Some of these factors, such as the legacy of the George W. Bush era and the contem- porary US political environment, are reflections of American policies and politics. Others, such as events this year in the Arab...

... Barack Obama George Bush US Central Command Al Qaeda Victor Renuart Tommy Franks Hamid Karzai 150 In an apparent effort to box President Obama into a long-term commitment to the war, the generals oversold the troop surge s potential. . . . Will America Lose Afghanistan Again? gary m...

... Development Report United States George Bush Barack Obama Israel Egypt Iraq 376 The lesson taught by Egypt and Iraq . . . is that real political reform only occurs when a new balance of power emerges in a country. The Rise and Fall of Political Reform in the Arab World marina OTTaway For a few...

... War normalization Nguyen Tan Dung George Bush Vietnamese Communist Party ASEAN Cambodia 162 The connection with the United States [is] a geopolitical asset in the competition that the Vietnamese have long carried out with China. Vietnam and America: Parameters of the Possible FrederiCk...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book assesses the challenges facing America and its allies in Afghanistan. Many of the challenges are compounded by strategic errors committed by the Bush administration. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan , by Seth G. Jones . Norton...

.... All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California East Germany Mary Elise Sarotte George Bush Mikhail Gorbachev Helmut Kohl 126 BOOKS According to the narrative of the cold war that has become conventional wisdom, the end went like this: We (the United States...

... Books , 2009 . © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Hugo Chávez Venezuela Brian Nelson caracazo George Bush 84 BOOKS In 2002, political events took place in Venezuela that have in many respects remained mysteri-ous ever since...

... rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California David Finkel surge Iraq George Bush ethnic cleansing 432 BOOKS The surge. Like so much associated with Iraq and the Bush years, the event itself as Nietzsche said of the French Revolution has disappeared beneath...

... East South America China George Bush Iraq dictatorship authoritarianism Europe 412 Democracy still occupies the high ground in the world. . . . Yet, just a few years into the new century, the grand hope that it will prove the age of democracy s global triumph appears far more tenuous than...

... United States Iraq Afghanistan Osama bin Laden George Bush 9-11 Ayman Zawahiri Muslim We know that we re killing a lot, captur-ing a lot, collecting arms, Secretary ofDefense Donald Rumsfeld reportedly told a meeting of defense analysts and retired offi- cers at the Pentagon last year. We...

... Europe United States George Bush United Nations Iraq NATO Germany Vietnam EU New Transatlantic Agenda Views on the postwar evolution of transat-lantic relations can be divided into twobroad camps. A realist view holds that, even before the Iraq War, relations between Europe and America...