Articles tagged with: Afghanistan
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
Last weekend’s general elections in Pakistan are significant for a variety of reasons. For the first time in the country’s history—and, unless the unexpected happens—there were will be a democratic transition of power from one civilian government to another one.
The vote was the clearest demonstration of the country’s young, vibrant civil society and private media, which can trump political corruption and the ever-looming specter of militant violence. Despite Taliban threats to ...
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Saturday, 16 Feb, 2013
Happy 33rd Birthday, The Majalla! On February 16, 1980, the magazine’s first edition went to print. The cover story was penned by British historian Desmond Stewart, who travelled to Washington to investigate America’s next move in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Less than two months earlier, Soviet troops had invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of a grueling nine-year war. Some lessons are not easily learned.
The American response was the Carter Doctrine, which US President ...
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As the Obama administration prepares its Afghan exit strategy scheduled for 2014, Iran too is weighing its options in Afghanistan. Tehran’s basic objective is to retain a dominan...
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Monday, 24 Dec, 2012
Rock the Kasbah is a series of street-scene photographs by Tunisian Jellel Gasteli, taken during the first protest of the Arab Awakening in Tunisia. He says, “The sit-in at t...
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Thursday, 22 Nov, 2012
It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones film: a team of archaeologists battling against time and terrorist attacks to save an ancient site from imminent destruction. Yet unfo...
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The final debate between America’s two presidential rivals made one thing painfully clear: US foreign policy under President Barak Obama’s second term would deviate only margin...
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Monday, 29 Oct, 2012
At the end of his first term, President Obama’s public foreign policy in the Middle East has reflected his presidency as a whole: cautious, measured, haunted by its own high-blow...
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Wednesday, 10 Oct, 2012
Opening his speech on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute, Mitt Romney hailed George Marshall, the sage VMI alumnus who went on to become America’s chief military p...
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Friday, 14 Sep, 2012
The Icarus Syndrome by Peter Beinart
Few books capture the transformation of America’s foreign policy and the nation’s psyche in the hours and months after t...
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Friday, 13 Jul, 2012
David Constantine’s photography expresses a dignified humanism. His images are often striking, but they are also infused with humility. Rather than seeking out photos that ar...
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