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- Author: Wawan Kurniawan
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Islamic social justice, Iranian style - 3
SOCIAL-JUSTICE SHARES: AHMADINEJAD’S INITIATIVE The Ahmadinejad government that came to power in summer 2005, calling itself the “justice-driven administration” under the banner of mehrvarzi (compassion) represents in fact populism ...
How the US Funds the Taliban - 2
Mike Hanna is the project manager for a trucking company called Afghan American Army Services. The company, which still operates in Afghanistan, had been trucking for the United States for years but lost out in the Host Nation Trucking contract that ...
How the US Funds the Taliban - 1
On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime’s ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass. On the Taliban diplomat&rsquo...
Defending the Arsenal
In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should ha...
Islamic social justice, Iranian style - 2
PRIVATIZATION’S EARLY SETBACKS A number of factors are frequently cited for the slow pace and insignificant scale of privatization. Some of these factors were similar to the experiences of other countries; others are more country specific. In g...
Islam, Iran and the Prospects for Stability in the Caspian Region - 2
Iran and the Caucasus Iran’s policy in the region is largely guided by geo-political state interests and less by ideological goals, such as promotion of Islam. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran grasped that a potentially conflict-laden zo...
