All the legs of our strategy — security, counternarcotics efforts, reconstruction and governance — have gone wobbly.
Today, the military is our dominant policy instrument, with missions ranging from combat to occupation, humanitarian relief, reconstruction and governance.
In remarks in Paris today, Mr. Chirac said the United Nations, "and it alone," should be responsible for administering Iraq's reconstruction and governance.
General Richards sums up the need as reconstruction, development, governance and relations with Pakistan, all wrapped up in a cloak of growing security.
Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew served in Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander.
Experts suggest that peace agreements, post-conflict reconstruction and governance have a better chance of success when women are involved, in part because women adopt a more inclusive approach towards security and address key social and economic issues that might otherwise be ignored.
Tenuous German support for deployment here is tied to maintaining the caveats with which the mission began: the army is here to help with security, reconstruction and good governance from a northern base.
The threat to Kandahar was lifted and Nato was able to start focusing properly on facilitating the speedy implementation of improvements in governance, reconstruction, development and relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"If I were Merkel, I would come to town, say, 'I'm doing governance, reconstruction and development, and I'm doing it in a big way.' It not only contributes to the reality of the conflict, but also will buy a lot of credit".
They could ensure successful intervention, stabilization, restoration of governance, reconstruction, transition back to local authority, and swift return home of deployed teams.
