Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Good Governance as a Counter-Terrorism Tactic?

June 30th, 2008 by Sarah

Xenia Dormandy in The Christian Science Monitor recommends that the best way for the U.S. to quell terrorist groups along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is to ease our military pressure and promote good governance in Pakistan.  By improving democracy, “jobs, infrastructure, education, and healthcare (all types of things that imply good governance and which the Pakistani government has been inadequate in providing),” terrorist groups will be weakened.


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