Obama's Afghan arm-twisting : weakening Karzai to give him strength?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lorimore, Clint, Clarke, Ryan
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2009
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101735; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6083
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The Obama administration's public criticism of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in recent weeks has spareked a great deal of speculation that it is looking to back an alternative candidate in Afghanistan's upcoming elections. However this move may be part of a diplomatic strategy to both spu...