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Pakistan and the United States have pursued an important partnership for many years, but their goals diverge.
Read Teresita Schaffer’s contribution to the U.S. News and World Report Debate Club, published on the U.S. News web site October 27, 2011.
Pakistan and the United States have pursued an important partnership for many years, but their goals diverge.
Read Teresita Schaffer’s contribution to the U.S. News and World Report Debate Club, published on the U.S. News web site October 27, 2011.
With U.S. relations in Pakistan at a low point and the two countries’ strategic disagreement over priorities in Afghanistan on full display, it is time to review U.S. strategic options. One that deserves a close look is a grand bargain: give Pakistan what it wants in Afghanistan – but on two conditions: Pakistan assumes responsibility for preventing terrorism out of Afghanistan, and Pakistan agrees to settle Kashmir along the present geographic lines. This is not a panacea, nor would it be easy to execute. But it addresses the principal stumbling block to the current U.S. strategy, and provides an incentive to settle the region’s longest-running dispute.
Read our article published on foreignpolicy.com October 20, 2011.
During India’s first nine months on the Security Council, it has worked with the United States on broad themes but often differed on country-specific issues. Council membership has a price: many votes inevitably disappoint some of India’s constituencies and international friends.
Read our op-ed in The Hindu, October 8, 2011.