Foreign Affairs articles from November 2007

Foreign Affairs archives from November 2007

Security and opportunity for the twenty-first century.(Campaign 2008)
November 1, 2007... TO LEAD, a great nation must command the respect of others. America has been respected in the past as a powerful nation, a purposeful nation, and a generous and warm-hearted nation. In my travels around the world as senator and as first lady, I...

An enduring peace built on freedom: securing America's future.(Campaign 2008)
November 1, 2007... SINCE THE dawn of our republic, Americans have believed that our nation was created for a purpose. We are, as Alexander Hamilton said, "a people of great destinies." From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Americans have understood their...

Losing Russia: the costs of renewed confrontation.(relationship between the United States and Russia)(Essay)
November 1, 2007... FACED WITH threats from al Qaeda and Iran and increasing instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States does not need new enemies. Yet its relationship with Russia is worsening by the day. The rhetoric on both sides is heating up,...

Power is shifting to Asia. Are you?
November 1, 2007... The rise of Asia is changing the world. In 2005, Asia's share of world GDP (measured in purchasing power parity terms) exceeded that of the United States and the European Union. Asia is also the world's fastest growing region, accounting for...

Can the war on terror be won? How to fight the right war.(Essays)(Essay)
November 1, 2007... LESS THAN 12 hours after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush proclaimed the start of a global war on terror. Ever since, there has been a vigorous debate about how to win it. Bush and his supporters stress the need to go on the offensive against...

A disciplined defense: how to regain strategic solvency.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... IF RIP VAN WINKLE had fallen asleep in the Pentagon's budgeting office 20 years ago and awoke today, his first reaction would be that nothing had changed. President George W. Bush has asked for $505 billion for the peacetime U.S. military...

Washington's eastern sunset: the decline of U.S. power in Northeast Asia.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... NORTH EAST ASIA is in transition. After 60 years of U.S. domination, the balance of power in the region is shifting. The United States is in relative decline, China is on the ascent, and Japan and South Korea are in flux. The implications for...

Winning Asia: Washington's untold success story.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... INSIDE THE Beltway and on op-ed pages across the United States, it has become increasingly popular to lament the demise of U.S. influence in Asia. Power transitions, resurgent Asian nationalism, and poor policy choices in Washington have...

The old Turks' revolt: when radical secularism endangers democracy.(military coup in Turkey)(Essay)
November 1, 2007... COUNTRIES EYEING membership in the European Union do not usually come to the brink of a military coup. Yet that is precisely where Turkey found itself on April 27 of this year, after weeks of a pitched battle between the country's generals and...

America's strategic opportunity with India: the new U.S.-India partnership.
November 1, 2007... AS WE AMERICANS consider our future role in the world, the rise of a democratic and increasingly powerful India represents a singularly positive opportunity to advance our global interests. There is a tremendous strategic upside to our growing...

Asia's forgotten crisis: a new approach to Burma.
November 1, 2007... U.S. POLICY toward Burma is stuck. Since September 1988, the country has been run by a corrupt and repressive military junta (which renamed the country Myanmar). Soon after taking power, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), as...

Jerusalem syndrome: decoding The Israel Lobby.(The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER AND STEPHEN M. WALT. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 484 pp. $26.00. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt claim that they want The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy "to foster...

COIN of the realm: is there a future for counterinsurgency?(The US. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual; Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, From the American Revolution to Iraq)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The US. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. BY THE U.S. ARMY AND THE MARINE CORPS. University of Chicago Press, 2007, 472 pp- $15.00. Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, From the American...

A quiet revolution: Latin America's unheralded progress.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul. BY MICHAEL REID. Yale University Press, 2007, 352 pp. $30.00. Latin America, it is safe to say, gets no respect in Washington. Mention the region at a meeting of foreign policy...

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. BY MELVYN V. LEFFLER. Hill and Wang, 2007, 608 pp. $35.00. This is a masterful account of the Cold War by a distinguished historian in full stride. Leffler...

Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. BY CHARLES L. PRITCHARD. Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 228 pp. $26.95. In this valuable insider account of the Bush administration's tumultuous dealings with the...

After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council. BY IAN HURD. Princeton University Press, 2007, 234 pp. $35.00. One of the old axioms of international relations is that might makes right. But in fact, even...

The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding. BY DOMINIK ZAUM. Oxford University Press, 2007, 296 pp. $85.00. Since the end of the Cold War, the international community has been seized with the problem of...

The Construction of Democracy: Lessons From Practice and Research.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Construction of Democracy: Lessons From Practice and Research. EDITED BY JORGE I. DOMINGUEZ AND ANTHONY JONES. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 272 pp. $50.00. In this useful collection of essays on the "design" of constitutional...

Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. BY PETER M. LEWIS. University of Michigan Press, 2007, 360 pp. $70.00 (paper, $24.95). Indonesia and Nigeria have a remarkable number of similarities. They are...

China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads. EDITED BY CHARLES CALOMIRIS. Columbia University Press, 2007, 432 pp. $39.95. It is widely acknowledged that Chinas financial system is one of the weakest and most vulnerable parts of the...

China and India Learning From Each Other: Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth.(Dancing With Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... China and India Learning From Each Other: Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth. BY JAHANGIR AZIZ, STEVEN VINCENT DUNAWAY, AND ESWAR PRASAD. International Monetary Fund, 2006, 282 pp. $35.00. Dancing With Giants: China, India, and the...

Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty. BY LOUIS T. WELLS AND RAFIQ AHMED. Oxford University Press, 2007, 392 pp. $49.95. This book offers a detailed account of the strained relationship between the...

Medicine and the Market: Equity versus Choice.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Medicine and the Market: Equity Versus Choice. BY DANIEL CALLAHAN AND ANGELA A. WASUNNA. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 334 pp. $35.00. Health care is the top public concern in the United States and many other countries. Two of the...

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.(The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. BY MICHAEL D. GORDIN. Princeton University Press, 2007, 226 pp. $24.95. The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb. BY MICHAEL KORT. Columbia University Press, 2007, 464 pp....

Guernica and Total War.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Guernica and Total War. BY IAN PATTERSON. Harvard University Press, 2007, 208 pp. $22.95. The German bombing of the Basque city of Guernica in 1937 raised the same sort of fears of universal vulnerability to complete destruction that...

The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda. EDITED BY GERARD CHALIAND AND ARNAUD BLIN. University of California Press, 2007, 483 pp. $60.00 (paper, $24.95). Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens. EDITED BY...

George Kennan: a Study of Character.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... George Kennan: A Study of Character. BY JOHN LUKACS. Yale University Press, 2007, 224 pp. $26.00. George Kennan is one of the most significant and complex figures in the study of U.S. foreign policy, and Lukacs has written a moving and...

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800. BY JAY WINIK. HarperCollins, 2007, 688 pp. $30.00. Winik's last book, Apri1 1865, was a well-crafted and perceptive account of the end of the American Civil War. In...

Richard B. Russell: Southern Nationalism and American Foreign Policy.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Richard B. Russell: Southern Nationalism and American Foreign Policy. BY JEFF WOODS. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 158 pp. $66.00. Richard Russell served in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until his death, in 1971. As a longtime chair of the Senate...

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919. BY ANN HAGEDORN. Simon & Schuster, 2007, 560 pp. $30.00. Hagedorn's history of 1919 is not without virtues. The idea is a good one: 1919 was a vital year in U.S. history. The adoption of the...

Edith Wharton.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Edith Wharton. BY HERMIONE LEE. Knopf, 2007, 896 pp. $35.00. Lee's magisterial biography of the novelist Edith Wharton is not only an important contribution to American literary studies; it also offers students of U.S. foreign policy useful...

The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries. BY ALASTAIR CAMPBELL. Knopf, 2007, 794 PP. $35.00. For nearly a decade as Prime Minister Tony Blair's top political adviser, Campbell took time almost every day to write in his dairy. These...

The Rise of European Security Cooperation.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Rise of European Security Cooperation. By SETH C. JONES. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 310 pp. $80.00 (paper, $34.99). A political scientist at the WAND Corporation, Jones takes issue with the widespread view (particularly prevalent...

Churchill and the Jews: a Lifelong Friendship.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship. BY MARTIN GILBERT. Henry Holt, 2007, 384 pp. $30.00. An old line of the publishing industry holds that if you want to sell books you should write about Churchill or the Jews. Gilbert, Winston...

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the Age of Social Catastrophe.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. BY ROBERT GELLATELY. Knopf, 2007, 720 pp. $35.00. On one level, Gellately's book is a well-told but familiar narrative of the horrors committed in Germany and Russia between the...

Americans and Europeans: Dancing in the Dark.(Repairing the Damage: Possibilities and Limits of Transatlantic Consensus)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Americans and Europeans: Dancing in the Dark. BY DENNIS L. BARK. Hoover Institution Press, 2007, 246 pp. $15.00. Repairing the Damage: Possibilities and Limits of Transatlantic Consensus. BY DANA H. ALLIN, GILLES ANDREANI, PHILIPPE ERRERA,...

Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U S. Must Do. BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER. Random House, 2007, 300 pp. $24.95. Published in Spanish under the title Cuentos chinos (Tall Tales), this dazzling, hard-hitting...

Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba's Transition.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba's Transition. EDITED BY MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, 360 pp. $27.00. Informed by the experiences of socialist transitions in eastern Europe and East Asia,...

Reporte del sector seguridad en America Latina y el Caribe.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Reporte del sector seguridad en America Latina y el Caribe. EDITED BY LUCIA DAMMERT. FLACSO-Chile, 2007, 204 pp. $11.20. Opinion polls in Latin America repeatedly place personal insecurity at the top of citizens' anxieties. In some...

The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights. BY MARIA LORENA COOK. Penn State University Press, 2006, 216 pp. $45.00. Readers with an economic bent will be frustrated with a dissection of national labor...

Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization: Fighting Fire With Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization: Fighting Fire With Fire. EDITED BY J. MICHAEL FINGER AND JULIO J. NOGUES. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 256 pp. $54.50 (paper, $30.00). Sometimes one step backward is two steps...

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. BY ORLANDO FIGES. Metropolitan Books, 2007, 784 pp. $35.00. Massive in sweep, cast, and length, this latest of Figes' books sets out to capture how life in Stalin's Soviet Union was lived,...

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea. BY STEVE LEVINE. Random House, 2007, 496 pp. $27.95. Hardly any topic has been more chewed over in recent years than the politics of Caspian Sea oil and gas. But...

Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria After 1989. BY VENELIN I. GANEV. Cornell University Press, 2007, 240 pp. $39-95. The Stalinist state and its satellites came as close as any other to the Leviathan, and, therefore, the...

"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia; The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. BY HENRY L. FEINGOLD. Syracuse University Press, 2006, 368 pp. $45.00. Although Feingold is mindful of the lot of Russian Jews before, during, and after...

The Unknown Gulag: the Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. BY LYNNE VIOLA. Oxford University Press, 2007, 320 pp. $30.00. Russian agriculture will long be scarred by the ravages of collectivization--not merely because of its...

Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective. BY ARCHIE BROWN. Oxford University Press, 2007, 350 pp. $45.00. Mikhail Gorbachev's most important biographer here passes judgment on the man and the process he unleashed....

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. BY TRITA PARSI. Yale University Press, 2007, 384 pp. $28.00. This is much more than a now-it-can-be-told story of treachery and alliances, as the title would...

A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. BY JOOST R. HILTERMANN. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 346 pp. $29.00. Here is a model of investigative reporting. Hiltermann has tracked down seemingly every available...

(Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... (Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World. BY MAMOUN FAN DY. Praeger Security International, 2007, 176 pp. $49.95. To those who believe that the Arab media, spearheaded by al Jazeera, have achieved enhanced...

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. BY BARBARA SLAVIN. St. Martin's Press, 2007, 272 pp. $24.95. This book, by the USA Today diplomatic correspondent Slavin, ties together two closely...

The Pasha: How Mehemet Ali Defied the West, 1839-1841.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Pasha: How Mehemet Ali Defied the West, 1839-1841. BY LETITIA W. UFFORD. McFarland, 2007, 271 pp. $45.00. Mehemet Ali, who lived from 1767 to 1849, looms large in nineteenth-century Middle Eastern diplomatic history. Although at first...

China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise. BY SUSAN L. SHIRK. Oxford University Press, 2007, 336 pp. $27.00. Shirk combines the highest standards of academic scholarship with government...

The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857.(Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE. Knopf, 2007, 560 pp. $30.00. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire. BY ALEX VON TUNZELMANN. Henry Holt, 2007, 416 pp. $30.00. The last...

Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. BY JONATHAN D. SPENCE. Viking, 2007, 352 pp. $24.95. Spence has done it again: taken what might seem a limited topic and, after analyzing it from multiple perspectives, arrived at...

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent. BY LARRY BERMAN. HarperCollins, 2007, 328 pp. $25.95. Berman sets out in this book to report on his interviews with just about...

China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power. BY ROB GIFFORD. Random House, 2007, 352 pp. $26.95. Gifford first went to China in 1987 as a language student, and he then stayed on to become a journalist, eventually for National...

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight against AIDS.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS. BY HELEN EPSTEIN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 352 pp- $26.00. During several years of reporting in eastern and southern Africa, Epstein interviewed a lot of people who...

Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed EDITED BY WILLIAM F. S. MILES. Lynne Rienner, 2007, 221 pp. $49.95. Anecdotal evidence of links between local political groups and al Qaeda has recently focused attention...

Votes, Money, and Violence: Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Votes, Money, and Violence: Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa. EDITED BY MATTHIAS BASEDAU, GERO ERDMANN, AND ANDREAS MEHLER. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007, 301 pp. $37.50. Given that experts generally concur...

The African City: A History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The African City: A History. BY BILL FREUND. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 224 pp. $75.00 (paper, $19.99). Africa may be the least urbanized continent, but, as Freund's short book makes clear, cities of tens of thousands of people have...

Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. BY JEREMY M. WEINSTEIN. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 428 pp. $70.00 (paper, $26.99). Most of the increasingly voluminous literature on civil wars in Africa has ignored the...

Losing Iraq.(Letters to the Editor)
November 1, 2007... To the Editor: In "Who Lost Iraq?" (September/ October 2007), James Dobbins surveys the accountability of U.S. leaders, Congress, intelligence networks, the military, the press, and political parties, as well as the Iraqis themselves. He...

Democracy, Inc.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... To the Editor: It is ironic that two leading foreign affairs journals would carry articles in the same month by two progressive thinkers expressing diametrically opposed views on the linkages between economic and political development....

Better lives?(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... To the Editor: I am pleased that in his review of my book The Improving State of the World." Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet ("Better and Better," July/August 2007), James Surowiecki agrees...

Men of honor.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... To the Editor: I enjoyed the exchange "Salute and Disobey?" opposing, among others, Michael Desch to Richard Meyers and Richard Kohn (September/October 2007). I find Desch's points more telling, but some important issues have been...

Paths to modernity.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... To the Editor: Azar Gat ("The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers" July/August 2007) is right to warn against the prevailing teleological view of democracy. However, he overlooks two essential factors suggesting that authoritarian...

Editor's notes.(Correction notice)
November 1, 2007... Elizabeth Economy's essay "The Great Leap Backward?" (September/October 2007) stated, "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that on some days, 25 percent of the particulates in the atmosphere in Los Angeles originated in China."...

Introduction by President Masoud Barzani.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)
November 1, 2007... The Region of Iraq has made significant Progress since the liberation of 2003. Through determination and hard work our Region really has become "the other Iraq." Our future has not always looked so bright. During the previous regimes our people...

Interview with Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q: What political, economic and security changes have occurred since 2003? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following the 2003 liberation, we in the Kurdistan Region chose to remain part of Iraq. We played a leading...

Omer Fatah: development with determination and vigor.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(role of the people of Kurdistan in its economic development)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... While oil and gas, agriculture, and tourism will all play an important part in the development of the Region, Omer Fatah, the KRG Deputy Prime Minister, believes that, "The key underlying factor in our development, are the people of the...

The boom: investment in the Kurdistan region.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Herrish Muharam, Head of the KRG's Board of Investment characterizes the July 2006 Kurdistan Region Investment Law as, "One of the world's most comprehensive and investor friendly investment laws because it offers...

Natural resources--a rich bounty.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Beneath the gently undulating lowland areas of the Kurdistan Region lies the rich bounty of largely unexplored and unexploited oil and gas reserves. Ashti Hawrami, Minister of Natural Resources, points out that "There are 70 prospects in the...

Foreign relations: reaching out to the world.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... In the past, it may have been true that the mountains were the Kurd's only friends. But today, the KRG is promoting ties with countries all over the world. Leading this effort is Falah Mustafa Bakir, Head of the Department of Foreign Relations...

Reform: women expand their horizons.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)
November 1, 2007... As a young entity, the KRG benefits from a clean start and the ability to learn from the experiences of other developing areas. The KRG is determined to promote a wide ranging and clear-sighted modern social development program. Furthermore,...

Korek Telecom acquires national coverage.(Sponsored Section: The Kurdistan Region: A Bright Future in the Other Iraq)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Signals of great potential are being transmitted from the KRG. A testament to private sector possibilities is the grand feat achieved by Korek Telecom. Having started its GSM services in the Kurdistan Region in 2001, the mobile telephony...

Introduction by President Abdallahi: hailing in a new era for democracy and growth.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... After the democratic, transparent, and pluralist elections of March 2007, Mauritania has inaugurated a new period for its international relationships. This new stage is based on the principles of neighborliness, mutual respect, and cooperation...

New government, democracy, and monetary policy.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... The election of Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi last March in Mauritania's first democratic presidential elections since the country's independence 47 years ago marked a turning point for this northwest African Islamic state. Not only did it...

Private sector: building up economic character.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... The key to boosting Mauritania's private sector is foreign investment. The government created the Delegation for the Promotion of Private Investment whose task is the creation of an attractive business environment for national and international...

Raising Mauritania's oil and mining code.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... When an African country strikes oil, how does it most efficiently turn its newfound resource into a significant contributor to GDP, industry, and social development? This is the question Mauritania faced upon the discovery of the offshore...

Energy, the source of development.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... Energy is at the root of all development, and providing a vast country like Mauritania with electricity is at the root of enhancing economic expansion and the quality of life. But for Mauritania the energy sector poses a great challenge. From...

Transforming fisheries.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... The fishing industry would be well served by an enhanced energy infrastructure. Blessed with rich seas along its 430-mile coast, Mauritania's fisheries constitute 25-30 percent of the country's budget. It could be looking at an even larger...

Mauritania connected: the making of an inter-modal transport hub.(Sponsored Section: Mauritania: A Time to Prosper)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mauritania's transition from a land of nomadic caravans trailing across the desert to a nation joining the motorized mass transportation age is marked by an interesting phenomenon. For great parts of the country's...