Foreign Affairs articles from May 2009

Foreign Affairs archives from May 2009

The mushroom cloud that wasn't: why inflating threats won't reduce them.(Comments)(nuclear disasters)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... At the height of the Cold War, almost no one was bold enough or foolish enough to predict the Soviet Union's collapse, let alone without the eruption of a nuclear exchange between the two superpowers. One of the few who prophesied its demise,...

Tomorrow's institution today: the promise of the proliferation security initiative.(Comments)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... By early December 2002, the U.S. government knew that an untagged merchant ship, the So San, was transporting ballistic missiles and missile components from North Korea to the Middle East. As the ship traversed the Arabian Sea, U.S. officials...

The G-2 mirage: why the United States and China are not ready to upgrade ties.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... IT TOOK just one month for U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy team to establish its line on China: more cooperation on more issues more often. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enthusiastically declared during her brief visit to...

Deng undone: the costs of halting market reform in China.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... THE YEAR 2008 marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of market reforms in China--and perhaps the third anniversary of their ending. Since the present Chinese leadership rook power, market-oriented liberalization has been minor. And as...

State capitalism comes of age: the end of the free market?(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... ACROSS THE United States, Europe, and much of the rest of the developed world, the recent wave of state interventionism is meant to lessen the pain of the current global recession and restore ailing economies to health. For the most part, the...

Necessity, choice, and common sense: a policy for a bewildering world.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... THE UNITED STATES is declining as a nation and a world power, with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event. Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious. A few say it is serious and...

Nigeria: the next 10 years: how can Africa's most promising nation deliver on its future? A seven-point plan should catalyze Nigeria's economic evolution.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When hopes are high, living up to expectations is not always easy, especially when a major financial crisis engulfs the world's markets: no nation is left unaffected. Adaptability and resilience are put to the test,...

Nigeria's economic frontrunner.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... The fact that Nigeria today is in a position where it can confidently set development targets ten years ahead has a lot do with its number one income earner: oil. Nigeria's oil sector provides 20 percent of the country's GDP, 95 percent of...

Sea Trucks Group: building the future of offshore exploration & production.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... As Nigeria explores and produces oil further from its shores, getting equipment down to almost two miles below sea level is a new challenge. Fortunately a company that has been servicing the industry for over thirty-five years is building brand...

Financing Nigeria's promise, transmitting confidence.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... One of Nigeria's greatest achievements in recent years was the overhaul of its banking system in early 2006. Reforms introduced by the Obasanjo administration reduced the number of banks from 89 to 24, increased a bank's minimum capital...

Benue State: benevolent to investors.(Sponsored section)(Interview)
May 1, 2009... Blessed with the country's largest river system, Benue State's fertile lands have become known as Nigeria's food basket. Governor Gabriel Suswam has made it his mandate to make the most out of Benue's capacity to provide, by bridging local...

A second lease of life for manufacturing.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... An industrial revolution may never have taken place in Nigeria, but the nation has not been left behind in terms of manufacturing. As long as a thousand years ago, the state now known as Kano was a bustling economic and commercial center based...

Private bricks build Nigeria's real estate sector.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... If there is one Nigerian sector that has witnessed tremendous changes in the past ten years, it is real estate. While at the turn of the century all planning and housing issues were prone to heavy government involvement, the emergence of land...

Grant Properties Limited: developing quality and value in Nigeria's real estate industry.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The U.S. housing market may be in a slump, but in Nigeria it's only just starting to boom. Between $500,000 and $1,250,000 will get you a 4- or 5-bedroom seaside habitat in a gated community on Lagos State's Lekki Peninsula. The Goshen Beach...

The making of a knowledge matrix.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... When Nigeria's former administration spoke about the great leap forward, it was not meant hypothetically. The new seven-point agenda makes education one of its main pillars, and Nigeria's young are now on the threshold of a major leap in...

Diplomacy, Inc.: the influence of lobbies on U.S. foreign policy.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... THE AREA around K Street in Washington, D.C., abounds with lobbyists, many of whom represent foreign governments or entities. Although some major foreign governments continue to work mainly through their embassies in Washington, nearly one...

Morocco rising: the will to succeed.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since the ascent of King Mohammed VI to the throne of Morocco ten years ago, the country has been resolutely forward-looking. Traveling a difficult path of modernization and macroeconomic reform, Morocco has...

Strategic positioning: a global advantage.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... Globalization, for Morocco, is as much an opportunity as it is a choice. Its strategic position at the Strait of Gibraltar and geographic proximity to the markets of Europe, the Maghreb, and sub-Saharan Africa make it a natural platform for...

Breaking the mould: financial sector on the move.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... Morocco's economic development goes in tandem with the development of its banking and finance sector. Each requires the other to drive expansion and modernization, both major trends among Morocco's financial institutions. The banking system is...

Tourism a world of opportunities: a bright vision for Morocco.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... Tourism has long since developed into a mainstay for Morocco's economy. More than 7 million tourists visited in 2008, attracted not only by its sunny shores but by its distinct culture, history, and unique architectural heritage. Most visitors...

New energy: towards a sustainable and renewable future.(Sponsored Section)
May 1, 2009... Energy is food for growth. But as the country positions itself for further economic development, Morocco is struggling to meet rising demand. Highly dependent on external supplies--energy imports represent 96 percent of the total...

Farm futures: bringing agriculture back to U.S. foreign policy.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... IT IS NOT easy for Americans to understand the starvation that affects much of the developing world. Families in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia spend up to 80 percent of their incomes on food; for the average U.S. household, that would...

The key to Kiev: Ukraine's security means Europe's stability.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... ON JANUARY 7, 2009, after an unexpectedly severe disagreement between Russia and Ukraine, ostensibly over natural gas prices, Moscow cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. Then, Ukraine did the same to Europe. European reserves soon dwindled, and...

The King and us: U.S.-Saudi relations in the wake of 9/11.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... AS WORLD WAR II was drawing to a close in February 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud met aboard a U.S. battleship in the Suez Canal for the first time. For nearly six decades afterward, the United States...

The perils of apology: what Japan shouldn't learn from Germany.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... MORE TITAN 60 years after the end of World War II, chilly relations in East Asia stand in stark contrast to the thaw in western Europe. Germans have spent decades confronting and atoning for the crimes of the Nazi era. Today, Germany is...

A tale of two wars: the right war in Iraq, and the wrong one.(War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars. BY RICHARD N. HAASS. Simon & Schuster, 2009, 336 pp. $27.00. War of Necessity, War of Choice--part recent history, part wide-ranging personal memoir, part case study in...

The ways of Syria: Stasis in Damascus.(The View From Damascus: State, Political Community, and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The View From Damascus: State, Political Community, and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria. By ITAMAR RA B I N OVICH. Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, 365 pp. $49.95. In one of his sweeping insights, Henry Kissinger once captured the...

Comparing crises: is the current economic collapse like Japan's in the 1990s?(Response)
May 1, 2009... Worse and Worser In "The Japan Fallacy" (March/April 2009), Richard Katz argues that it is wrong to see the economic stagnation Japan suffered in the 1990s as a precedent for what is now happening in the United States. The U.S. crisis, he...

Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests. By STEVEN R. DAVID. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 224 pp. $50.00. In the post-Cold War world, war between states has been extraordinarily rare, but civil war and armed...

Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace. EDITED BY JOHN MILTON COOPER, JR. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 376 pp. $60.00. For almost a hundred years, Woodrow Wilson's ideas have cast a shadow...

Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy From Its Worst Enemies.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy From Its Worst Enemies. BY MICHAEL STONER. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp. $26.95. Democratic states have periodically been threatened by demagogues--political figures who fashion themselves as...

Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-first Century.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-first Century. EDITED BY EDGAR GRANDE AND LOUIS W. PAULY. University of Toronto Press, 2007, 360 pp. $27.95. This book is part of an ambitious undertaking by a group of...

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. BY NICHOLAS STERN. Public Affairs, 2009, 256 pp. $26.95. The British economist Stern, noted for his leadership of a major report on climate change...

Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy. B Y ABRAHAM L. NEWMAN. Cornell University Press, 2008, 240 pp. $39.95. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom were early to adopt comprehensive national policies to protect...

The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy. BY DAVID M. SMACK. Portfolio, 2008, 320 pp. $26.95. This book is a rambling and anecdotal but enjoyable account by a participant-observer of the vital role the financial system has...

Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the State.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the State. BY JENNY REBECCA KEHL. Lynne Rienner, 2008, 163 pp. $49.95. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is now generally acknowledged to contribute to the growth and...

China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities. BY C. FRED BERGSTEN, CHARLES FREEMAN, NICHOLAS R. LARDY, AND DEREK J. MITCHELL. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008, 256 pp. $26.95. This book is the third report on China...

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century. By P. w. SINGER. Penguin Press, 2009, 502 pp. $29.95. In contrast to the recent past, when it was assumed that the future of warfare would be technologically...

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlsletter.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Problems, Prospects)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlsletter. EDITED BY ROBERT ZARATE AND HENRY SOKOLSKI. Strategic Studies Institute, 2009, 679 pp. $29.99. Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Problems, Prospects. BY...

World Politics Since 1945.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... World Politics Since 1945. 9th ed. BY PETER CALVOCORESSI. Longman, 2009, 856 pp. $60.00. There are some things worth celebrating: World Politics Since 1945 remains one of the best overviews of contemporary international history, full of...

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power. BY DAVID E. SANGER. Harmony Books, 2009, 528 pp. $26.95. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, has written a brilliantly reported and...

Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power. BY KURT M. CAMPBELL AND JAMES B. STEINBERG. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 225 pp. $26.95. The extended transition of power between presidential...

In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. Bush.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. Bush. By IVO H. DAALDER AND I. M. DESTLER. Simon and Schuster, 2009, 400 pp. $27.00. In the Shadow of the...

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. BY DREW GILPIN FAUST. Knopf, 2008, 368 pp. $27.95. The sheer scale of the slaughter in the American Civil War--more than the total military deaths in all the rest of the United...

American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. By THOMAS S. KIDD. Princeton University Press, 2008, 224 pp. $29.95. This concise and well-organized study offers readers an...

The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986. BY EDGAR J. DOSMAN. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, 624 pp. $49.95. A towering figure in twentieth-century international economics, Raul Prebisch was a powerful theorist, world-class...

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal. BY JULIE GREENE. Penguin Press, 2009, 448 pp. $30.00. The labor historian Greene focuses on the gritty working men and women who dug "the big ditch," the harsh conditions...

Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It. BY TERRY F. BUSS. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 272 pp. $28.95. Since 1990, the international community has allocated over $5 billion to this small country,...

The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America. BY DOUGLAS SCHOEN AND MICHAEL ROWAN. Free Press, 2009, 240 pp. $25.00. The recession must be taking its toll at the Free Press, for this limp stab at political...

Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran Since the Fall of the Shah.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran Since the Fall of the Shah. BY JOHN W. PARKER. Potomac Books, 2008, 438 pp. $27.95. Given the deep U.S. concern over the prospect of a nuclear Iran and the grief this generates in U.S.-Russian relations at...

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. BY GREGORY FEIFER. HarperCollins, 2009, 336 pp. $27.99. Because the Soviet war in Afghanistan played a pivotal role both in the Cold War's endgame and in the Soviet Union's last gasps of...

The Balkans in World History.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Balkans in World History. BY ANDREW BARUCH WACHTEL. Oxford University Press, 2008, 176 pp. $19.95. The natural reaction is, "Yet another short history of the Balkans?" This one, however, is different--first of all because it manages to...

The Rise and Fall of Privatization in the Russian Oil Industry.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Rise and Fall of Privatization in the Russian Oil Industry. BY LI-CHEN SIM. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 288 pp. $80.00. There cannot be a better measure of the hash and murky wheeling and dealing that characterized Russia's coarse path...

Terror by Quota: State Security From Lenin to Stalin.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Terror by Quota: State Security From Lenin to Stalin. BY PAUL R. GREGORY. Yale University Press, 2008, 360 pp. $35.00. To render rational something so seemingly irrational as the Stalinist terror goes against all natural instincts. Gregory,...

Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious, and Media Frontiers.(Middle East)(Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious, and Media Frontiers. EDITED BY MADAWI AL-RASHEED. Columbia University Press, 2009, 320pp. $40.00. Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State. EDITED BY...

Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. BY RASHID KHALIDI. Beacon Press, 2009, 320 pp. $25.95. Sowing Crisis offers a compelling revisionist interpretation of the Cold War in the Middle East. Instead of...

Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. BY SUZANNE MALONEY. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008, 156 pp. $14.95. The third in the U.S. Institute of Peace's series on "'pivotal' states in the Muslim world," this...

Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. BY CHARLES DUELFER. PublicAffairs, 2009, 480 pp. $27.95. Duelfer served as deputy chair of the UN weapons inspection mission in Iraq from 1993 to 2000. Then, after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq...

Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership. BY PHILIP H. GORDON AND OMER TASPINAR. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 125 pp. $18.95. This little book opens imagining a U.S. presidential debate in the...

Democracy Is a Good Thing: Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Democracy Is a Good Thing: Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China. BY YU KEYING. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 240 pp. $34-95. What do China's leaders mean when they say that the Chinese system is democratic and...

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics. BY WILLIAM H. OVERHOLT. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 366 pp. $85.00 (paper, $24.99). The longtime Asia hand Overholt discusses what he thinks is right (especially in China) and...

The Politics of Extremism in South Asia.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Politics of Extremism in South Asia. BY DEEPA M. OLLAPALLY. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 256 pp. $85.00 (paper, $35-99). Dissenting from the conventional view that extremism is caused by religious belief, poverty, or repression,...

Taiwan's Relations With Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Taiwan's Relations With Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs. BY CHI SU. Taylor & Francis, 2008, 368 pp. $150.00. Su was chair of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council in 1999 when Taiwan's president, Lee Teng-hui, shocked not only Beijing...

Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan. EDITED BY BRUCE GILLEY AND LARRY DIAMOND. Lynne Rienner, 2008, 309 pp. $65.00 (paper, $24.50). The contributors to this conference volume ask not whether China will democratize but how:...

Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand. BY DUNCAN McCARGO. Cornell University Press, 2008, 264 pp. $59.95 (paper, $21.00). McCargo's close study of the origins of militancy in three southern Thai provinces...

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. BY STEPHEN KINZER. Wiley, 2008, 400 pp. $25.95. Kinzer's account is part sympathetic portrait of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's current strongman president, and part journalistic account...

Becoming Somaliland.(Africa)(Understanding Somalia and Somaliland)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Becoming Somaliland. BY MARK BRADBURY. Indiana University Press, 2008, 200 pp. $60.00 (paper, $22.95). Understanding Somalia and Somaliland. BY IOAN LEWIS. Columbia University Press, 2008, 208 pp. $45.00. Somaliland provides a...

Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants. BY JOHN FREDERICK WALKER. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009, 320 pp. $25.00. Walker's well-written and informative book tells two somewhat distinct stories. The first...

Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa. BY FRANCIS M. DENG. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008, 308 pp. $50.00 (paper, $19.95). Given Africa's uneven governance record, the relative absence of constitutional debates was a...

For the record.(Recent Books)(Correction notice)
May 1, 2009... In "Cambodia's Curse" (March/April 2009), Ok Serei Sopheak is identified as "a prominent political consultant who became a senior adviser to the prime minister last fall." Ok Serei Sopheak is a political consultant but not an adviser to the...