Political settlement
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Pakistan recommends U.S. negotiate with TalibanInstead of escalating the war in Afghanistan, however, top Pakistani officials are pressing the administration to try to negotiate a political settlement with top Taliban commanders that would allow the U.S. to exit Afghanistan. In this article: Taliban, U.S., Pakistan, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Political settlement, Mohammed Omar, and Osama bin Laden |
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Deseret News | 14 hours ago
NPR's Tippett: Religious conversations can be powerful, world-changing
...information. Johnston is also the author of "Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft." "Whatever political settlement emerges, if you want it to be lasting in nature, religious leaders must feel some ownership in that," said Johnston,...
In this article: Douglas Johnston, NPR, E mail, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Middle East, and Pakistan
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Guardian | 3 days ago
Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Another way out of the mire
...of the continuing links between the Quetta Shura and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence security agency. If these links are real, a political settlement guaranteed by the Pakistani state, which also means its army, would use those...
In this article: Taliban, Afghanistan, Al-qaida, Hamid Karzai, US, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Kabul, and British troops
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Independent.co.uk - World | 3 days ago
Miliband: Taliban must join Afghan parliament
...end." He said Britain was ready to commit more soldiers to Afghanistan, but stressed military action had to be backed by a lasting political settlement. He argued that most Taliban supporters were not ideologically committed to a...
In this article: David Miliband, Taliban, NATO, Afghanistan, Al-qa'ida, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, British troops, and Jihad
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 3 days ago
Nato chief: quick exit from Afghanistan will unleash 'global jihad'
...insurgents but to persuade them to lay down their arms and enter politics. Britain's goal in Afghanistan is "not a fight to the death" but a political settlement, he said. Mr Rasmussen's intervention came as it emerged that a British...
In this article: NATO, Afghanistan, Jihad, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Gordon Brown, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Britain, and Taliban insurgents
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The Australian | 5 days ago
Climate clock ticking, says Rudd
...the Opposition Leader said. "Most people have expected for a long time that Copenhagen would result in a political agreement or a political settlement and any treaty - binding international agreement - would take some time to...
In this article: Copenhagen, House of Representatives, Mitch Fifield, Coal, Climate change, Platinum, and Copper
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 6 days ago
War in Afghanistan: Not in our name
...stabilise Afghanistan. He added: "Progress on weakening the Taliban and strengthening the Afghan state will create the conditions for a new political settlement in the country. The President's options: Four scenarios rejected by Obama 1.
In this article: Afghanistan, Taliban, Oxfam, UK, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, London, Kabul, Douglas Alexander, and Hamid Karzai
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Guardian | 7 days ago
Electoral reform: Change or decay
...at what now seems to have been the nadir of the expenses crisis, 5,000 Guardian readers contributed their ideas on the shape of a new political settlement. More than four-fifths put voting reform at the top of their priorities. The...
In this article: Labour, Conservative Party, Democracy, Liberal Democrat, John Denham, YouGov, and Tessa Jowell
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New Kerala | November 13, 2009
Political settlement 'very important' in Sri Lanka: Minister
By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, Nov 13 : Now that the Tamil Tigers have been defeated, it is 'very important' to have a political settlement to end Tamil grievances, a senior Sri Lankan minister said here. Home Affairs and Public...
In this article: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, India, China, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Pakistan, Colombo, and Potato
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BBC News | November 13, 2009
UK 'backs Taliban reintegration'
...gave a speech at Nato in which he called the insurgency a "wide but shallow coalition of convenience" and called for a "long-term inclusive political settlement in Afghanistan" involving the drawing away of conservative Pashtun nationalists...
In this article: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, UK, Ideology, NATO, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, UN, and Jihad
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The Australian | November 12, 2009
Sri Lankan navy 'forcing refugees further afield'
...Chellaney said democracies such as Australia and India should be working together to exert pressure on Sri Lanka to reach a peaceful political settlement with its Tamil population because "only then will they be able to deal with their refugee...
In this article: Brahma Chellaney, India, Sri Lanka, Democracy, Australia, Unicef, and Centre for Policy Research
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Political settlement is a concept in political theory linked to elite theory, states, and state-building. Joel Migdal has suggested that the concept of political settlements has a pedigree going back to the work of Barrington Moore. Political settlements are the frameworks for governing a state established by elites, either through formal processes or informally over time. Attempts to clearly define the concept are relatively recent and the political scientist Alan Whaites has suggested that
Political settlements are the deeper, often unarticulated, understandings between elites that bring about the conditions to end conflict, but which also in most states prevent violent conflict from occurring. Political settlements happen because of self interest (hope of greater benefit from a common state-building project) or due to a strong sense of shared ethos (such as religious or ideological conviction).
He goes on to suggest that many political settlements contain the seed of their own eventual failure through inherent inflexibility.
Most political settlements now have an explicit articulation (enshrined in an evolving
document – usually a constitution). Ultimately, however, no political settlement can
afford to be static. For a political settlement to endure it must absorb social
change, for example settlements formed by elites that exclude a growing
middle class usually become subject to a step change; a `Great Reform Act,’
suffragettes struggle or people’s movement. It has been suggested that in most
states constitutional reform has become the metaphor for the renegotiation of
power.
Whaites offers categories for different types of political settlements, including `engineered' and imposed.
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