Reconstruction
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Japan, not wishing to be left out of the great infrastructure game in Myanmar, is investing billions in port
reconstruction.
Previous efforts to enhance coastal protection can provide a roadmap to
reconstruction
that will help to avert future damage.
But for Japan, the question of whether to continue to aid in Iraq's
reconstruction
extends beyond the merits of this particular policy and goes to the heart of Japanese notions of security and what constitutes the national interest.
What was needed was cancelation of reparations and inter-Allied war debts as a whole, together with a big
reconstruction
loan to put the shattered European economies back on their feet.
And it is not too soon to start planning for
reconstruction
and repatriation of refugees after Venezuela’s brand of socialism – or, more accurately, oil and cocaine clientelism – finally comes to an end.
Israel will not allow the
reconstruction
of terrorist structures on its doorstep: no country would.
For, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most Europeans viewed the United States as both its defender against the Soviet Union’s expansionist aims and the key external actor for their deeply wounded continent’s moral and economic
reconstruction.
The Rules of ReconstructionLebanon’s reconstruction, so painstakingly carried out in the 1990’s, is now at risk of being undone.
Likewise, there is unfinished business in many other countries undergoing
reconstruction.
The stability of the Great Lakes region of Africa, perhaps that continent’s most violent area, will depend on the success of its transition and
reconstruction.
These multiple tasks make economic
reconstruction
fundamentally different from “development as usual.”
To succeed, the transition to peace requires demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of former combatants, as well as
reconstruction
and rehabilitation of services and infrastructure.
On the surface, the UN seems ideally placed to lead
reconstruction
efforts because, unlike development institutions like the World Bank, it can integrate the political and economic objectives that are equal parts of a transition to peace.
The commercial exploitation of rich oil and gas reserves in the Timor Gap could have facilitated
reconstruction
and created jobs for the 30% of the labor force that is unemployed.
Donor Funds are Needed for Poverty, Not IraqAmerica wants the world to pledge billions of dollars to Iraq's
reconstruction
at a donor's meeting to be held in October in Madrid.
The world's answer should be an unequivocal "No!"Iraq's long-term
reconstruction
does not need foreign financial assistance.
This implies that if Iraq increased its oil exports by one million barrels a day--which it could quickly achieve with a cessation of attacks on its infrastructure--it would have around $10 billion per year in additional revenues to begin
reconstruction.
The biggest costs in Iraq are not for
reconstruction
but for US troops.
But the Bush administration's exclusion of creditor countries like France, Germany, and Russia from Iraqi
reconstruction
contracts undermines this hope.
Having implicitly accepted responsibility for starting the war, Nasrallah has directed Hezbollah to focus on rapid
reconstruction
in villages and towns, right up to the Israeli border.
In many Asian democracies, only institutional
reconstruction
will prevent a collapse.
Afghanistan’s Drug-Friendly EnvironmentAfghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has stepped up international fundraising efforts in recent weeks, seeking a fresh package of military and
reconstruction
aid from the United States, together with stronger strategic guarantees.
Even if Iraq is to bear more of the cost of its own reconstruction, there will have to be debt forgiveness, and this too requires international cooperation.
The economy will have a simple structure in the coming years, with most economic activities focused in five sectors: smallholder, or peasant, agriculture; reconstruction; port services and light manufacturing; local small-scale trade; and public services, including health care and education.
The key challenge is to support these five sectors in order to combine short-term relief with long-term
reconstruction
and development.
The second key to successful
reconstruction
is to harmonize the international response.
After all, North Korea’s sudden collapse or a military conflict on the peninsula would undermine regional security, while burdening neighboring countries with millions of refugees and hundreds of billions of dollars in
reconstruction
costs.
It organized the postwar international order: the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the Marshall Plan, the
reconstruction
of Japan, and more.
An unusually favorable combination of skillful statesmanship (and plain good luck) will be required if this
reconstruction
of NATO is to succeed in strengthening, rather than diminishing, security.
After all, without the US, the other main foreign powers in the Syrian conflict – Turkey, Russia, and Iran – will be able to consolidate their spheres of influence and divide the spoils of the post-war
reconstruction
among themselves.
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