... sovereign LiLia ShevtSova is a senior associate at the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her lat- est book is Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West Is Weary of Russia (Carnegie Endow- ment, 2010). Medvedev s Potemkin Modernization LiLia ShevtSova...

... Kurmanbek Bakiyev Russia Manas Transit Center Uzbekistan Askar Akayev Tulip Revolution Dmitri Medvedev Karshi-Khanabad 301 Intensified geopolitical competition . . . could further destabilize the country and change it from a collapsing state into a bona fide failed state. Kyrgyzstan...

... political debate or economic competition. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Al Qaeda Bush Europe Osama bin Laden September Taliban terrorism United States World Trade Center Proportionality is a recurring theme...

.... 2002 The Regents of the University of California fundamentalist Islamic Marxist Lenin Osama bin Laden revolution Saudi Arabia Taliban terrorist World Trade Center 81 Labeling Osama bin Laden as a terrorist isentirely appropriate; he is, after all, the manbehind the September 11...

...Mark Juergensmeyer What is striking about the World Trade Center assault and many other recent acts of religious terrorism is that they have no obvious military goal. … They are a kind of perverse performance of power meant to ennoble the perpetrators' views of the world and to draw us...