October 20, 2006

Newsweek columnist cites CISAC's Fearon on likely failure of Iraqi power-sharing

After six months in power, the Iraq government has failed to gain control and secure the country, writes Newsweek International columnist Fareed Zakaria. It is time, he says, to acknowledge the new government's failure as well as the U.S. military's inability to stem an ongoing civil war. Citing CISAC faculty member James Fearon's research on civil wars, the columnist warns against placing hope in power-sharing among Iraq's Sunnis, Shia and Kurds. "Power-sharing agreements rarely work," Zakaria writes, echoing Fearon's research and his recent testimony before Congress on the situation in Iraq.

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