South and Southeast Asia
March 2005
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March Article Abstracts
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Title: Australia's Emerging Global Role
Author: Allan Gyngell
"Where once Australians felt remote from global power, they now find themselves closer to it."
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Title: Indonesia after the Tsunami
Author: Edward Aspinall
"The post-tsunami relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts . . . pose enormous challenges for a new government that inherits, and is partly a product of, a ramshackle and ineffective state apparatus."
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Title: Thailand's Thaksin to the Rescue
Author: Amy Kazmin
"Before the killer wave, the campaign had been heating up with increasing public debate about Thaksin's . . . authoritarian style and apparent contempt for democratic principles. After the tsunami, Thais rallied behind their leader."
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Title: Laos: Still Communist after All These Years
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"Throughout the repression and the economic backsliding, most countries in the West have said little about Laos, even as they decry similar problems in Burma and Tibet and other regions of the world."
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Title: America and India at a Turning Point
Author: Sumit Ganguly
"Can the Bush administration successfully set aside its differences with India and build on the emerging commonalities of interest?"
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Title: First Steps: The Afghan Elections
Author: Thomas J. Barfield
"For [Hamid] Karzai, winning a nationwide plebiscite made him the first elected leader in Afghan history and legitimized his government. . . . But his electoral victory will prove hollow unless he succeeds in using this window of opportunity to permanently change the dynamic of Afghan politics."
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Title: America and Pakistan: Is the Worst Case Avoidable?
Author: Stephen Philip Cohen
"America should be concerned about the deeper causes of Pakistan's malaise, lest the country become the kind of nuclear-armed monster state that its critics already think it is."
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Title: Less-Than-Great Expectations: The Pakistani-Russian Rapprochement
Author: Mark N. Katz
"The expansion of Pakistani-Russian ties to include a significant arms relationship appears to depend on a deterioration in the Russian-Indian relationship that Moscow will not initiate and desperately wants to avoid."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in January 2004, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Asia
A map of the Asia.
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