Today, I was thrilled to attend President Perez Musharraf's lecture "The State of the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship" at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Mr.
An intriguing regional phenomenon has been and is still developing in the Middle East. The dichotomy between China, the Middle East, and the US holds wide security and economic implications for the West.
As bastions of communism for much of the 20th century, both Russia and China have taken on select democratic ideals and experimented with varying forms of economic liberalization. Despite these changes, there persists a repressive government that is shielded by a façade of economic growth and sustained by an active campaign to squelch civil society.
Central Asia is usually forgotten by many U.S. policymakers because of its landlocked location and its presumed insignificance on the world political stage.
