CIAO DATE: 09/03

Foreign Policy

July/August 2003

From Victory to Success: Afterwar Policy in Iraq

 

In this special report, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working with FOREIGN POLICY, seeks to address some of the afterwar's most pressing issues and to offer a framework for turning victory into success. Click here to download report (PDF). A conference based on the report featured Senator Richard Lugar, FP editor Moises Naim, Carnegie president Jessica Mathews and other report authors.

 

Contents

• Now for the Hard Part
  “ . . . the easier phase is over. The part that the United States is less good at, less practiced in, and less politically ready for is still to come.”
  By Jessica Tuchman Mathews

• Lessons of the Past
  “The ideal political transition in nation building appears to be the quick transfer of power to legitimately elected local leaders."
  By Minxin Pei

• Don't Forget Afghanistan
  “ . . . if the alternative is to wait until Afghanistan possesses a real nationwide administration, then reconstructioon will be delayed indefinitely—and only the Taliban and al Qaeda will benefit.”
  By Anatol Lieven

• One Country, Two Plans
  “At a sweep of the U.S. pen, Iraq would turn from a centralized, hierarchical country into a model of participatory democracy.”
  By Marina S. Ottaway

• Why Oil Won't Be a Quick Fix
  "Better to let the Iraqi political process mature and market forces work than to rush to create an inviting but unstable investment climate for oil in Iraq.”
  By Edward C. Chow

• Why Dictators Aren't Dominoes
  "External military threats often strengthen dictators' hold. They inflate autocrats with renewed purpose and determination.”
  By Thomas Carothers

• Islam's Weakened Moderates
  “More secular recruits would enable radical Islamist networks to infiltrate western societies more easily.”
  By Husain Haqqani

• The Middle East's Muffled Signals
  “If Shiite radicals prevail in Iraq, it is difficult to imagine any meaningful political reform in Saudi Arabia.”
  By Daniel Brumberg

• Can Iran and the United States Bridge the Gulf?
  “For their part, Iranian leaders have made, at best, only thickly veiled diplomatic overtures to the United States.”
  By George Perkovich

• Can Preventive War Cure Proliferation?
  “To be effective against proliferation, preventive war must remove the direct threat and dissuade would-be proliferators.”
  By Joseph Cirincione

• Terror's Undiminished Threat
  “U.S. military presence on Muslim soil . . . may substantially increase grass-roots hostility and, potentially, terrorist recruitment against the U.S. government and Israel.”
  By Vincent Cannistraro

• Looking for Legitimacy in All the Wrong Places
  “Americans will not always be able to say to the world, 'trust us, we know what we're doing.'”
  By Robert Kagan