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  • India-Pakistan: Peace After the Earthquake?
    By Esther Pan
    Backgrounder
    Updated on November 1, 2005

  • Our Man in Pakistan
    By Mahnaz Ispahani, Former Council Adjunct Senior Fellow for South and West Asia
    Op-Ed
    March 3, 2006

  • Religious Sword Over Pakistan
    By Mahnaz Ispahani, Former Council Adjunct Senior Fellow for South and West Asia
    Op-Ed
    May 21, 2004

  • Council Expert Ispahani: U.S.-Pakistan ’Marriage’ Needs Serious Counseling
    Interview
    December 30, 2003

  • Council Expert Says Pakistan May Help U.S. in War on Terrorism and in Afghanistan, but Nuclear Problems Remain
    Interview
    June 26, 2003

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  Pakistan, Humanitarian Intervention

  Getting Things Done: Pakistan’s self-help society mobilizes; President Musharraf faces his own crisis

  Author:	Mahnaz Ispahani, Former Council Adjunct Senior Fellow for South and West Asia

  October 14, 2005
  Slate

  Governments invariably respond tardily to natural disasters, as the reactions to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina have amply demonstrated, and so it’s no surprise that President Pervez Musharraf has faced criticism for his team’s inadequate response. Addressing the nation on television on Wednesday—unusually, in Urdu and out of uniform—Musharraf tried to explain the delay: “Roads were blocked, there was no army, and the administration itself was among the victims.” He blamed a lack of communications and helicopters and suggested that no government could cope readily with such a huge tragedy. Still, the lagging response has left Musharraf open to attacks, such as that mounted by an opponent who noted that the government spends millions on missiles and weapons but has no equipment to cope with a natural calamity.

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  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

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  Confronting Climate Change

  This report argues that the United States must lead with domestic action on climate change and proposes a U.S. negotiating strategy for a global UN climate agreement that includes commitments from all major economies, while also promoting a less formal Partnership for Climate Cooperation that would focus the world's largest emitters on implementing aggressive emissions reductions.

  U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality

  This Task Force report examines changes in Latin America and in U.S. influence there, while taking account of the region's enduring importance to the United States. The Task Force offers an agenda for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four critical areas that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.

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