Zalmay Khalilzad is president of Khalilzad Associates and counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. In addition to other diplomatic and government appointments, he served as special presidential envoy (2002–2005) and U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan (2003–2005), and as U.S. ambassador to Iraq (2005–2007), after which he became U.S permanent representative to the United Nations, serving until 2009.
July 2010, Volume 21, Issue 3
After almost ten years of complex and costly efforts to build democracy in these two countries, where do things stand? What lay behind the critical choices that shaped events in these places, and what are their current prospects for success?
