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Metro Boston's Jason Notte interviews Xenia Dormandy, Director of the Project on India and the Subcontinent:

"Nawaz and Musharraf hate one another — loathe one another. I don’t think there is any credible way the two of them could make a deal with one another. Sharif was ousted by Musharraf. When Musharraf was in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago, many thought it was to talk to Sharif. More likely, it was to convince the Saudis to hold on to him."

Carter, Deutch, and Zelikow addresses the threat of Catastrophic Terrorism in Foreign Affairs.

Nation-states fail because they can no longer deliver positive political goods to their people.

The demonstrated link among poor governance, poverty, and nation-state failure makes strengthening the quality of governance in the developing world an urgent task.

The debate over national security and arms control has focused primarily on weapons: more or fewer weapons, different kinds of weapons. During the 1984 presidential campaign, for example, President Ronald Reagan defended his administration's military buildup, the biggest in peacetime. Former Vice President Walter Mondale advocated a freeze on deploying new weapons. Numbers and types of arms have preoccupied governments and specialists on both the right and the left.

"Poor leadership has been the depressing norm in Africa for decades. But as a bold new initiative by a group of past and present African leaders takes off, good governance may finally come to the continent."