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Designing Fair Shares Prosperity in Asia

Chandran Nair May 31, 2012
Societies aiming for social progress have a few mechanisms: Governments can tax wealth and fund programs or NGOs; mandate a level of investment in beneficial programs, while giving companies and investors the benefit of choice; or impose few restrictions, hoping that companies and investors choose to strengthen communities on their own. Social investments can be piecemeal or far-reaching. With...

Can Afghanistan and Pakistan Prop Each Other Up?

Paula Newberg March 30, 2012
NATO is winding down its military operations in Afghanistan, leaving the nation only slightly more stable than when troops arrived in 2001. Security priorities drove aid, and Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are now left in desperate need of good governance and nation-building. “Billions have been spent, but only a trickle was invested in Afghanistan's economic future,” explains Paula...

Globalization From the Heart of Eurasia

Richard Weitz February 29, 2012
Organizing Central Asian states – once members of the Soviet Union – might seem an easy task. Regional and global integration for economic and security purposes has been the goal of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev since the country gained independence in 1991, explains Richard Weitz, senior fellow and director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute. So far...

US-Pakistani Relations in Crisis – Part II

Robert M. Hathaway January 5, 2012
Hours after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Pakistan pledged to assist the US in fighting terrorism in neighboring Afghanistan. But a series of events, including the May discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad and the November US strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border, contribute to mounting mistrust in both nations. This YaleGlobal series examines the deteriorating...

US-Pakistani Relations in Crisis – Part I

Richard Weitz January 3, 2012
For a decade, NATO forces have struggled to stabilize Afghanistan and defeat terrorist groups that were the source of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington. The killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and growing tension between Washington and Islamabad further complicate the situation in Afghanistan. This YaleGlobal series analyzes the impact of the Afghan-Pakistani developments. Russian...

Mongolia Opens Doors for Foreign Investment

Steven Borowiec October 21, 2011
Foreign investment in Mongolia’s mining sector – coal, copper, gold and more – is fueling rapid growth. Like other developing nations, Mongolia wrestles with how to control the development and spread wealth throughout a dispersed population of 2.7 million in sustainable ways rather than passing it on to a handful of elites or creating a welfare state, explains journalist Steven Borowiec. He...

Pakistan Seeks Control of Its Afghanistan Endgame

Bruce Riedel September 30, 2011
Encouraging Taliban attacks on NATO, leaders of the Pakistan military and its intelligence service are impatient for the US to abandon the war in Afghanistan. The Pakistani goal is to prevent a pro-India government in Afghanistan and install instead a puppet Islamic regime. In testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, the outgoing chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral...