Foreign Affairs has already put on its website an article from the November/December issue: Asia’s forgotten crisis: a new approach to Burma by Michael Green and Derek Mitchell. They say, in an article written before the monks began their stir, neither sanctions nor constructive engagement has worked: “Given the differing perspective (of interested countries), a new mulitaleral initiative cannot be based on a single, uniform approach. Sanctions policies will need to coexist with various forms of engagement, and it will be necessary to coordinate all of these measures toward the common end of encouraging reform, reconciliation, and ultimately the return of democracy. To succeed the region’s major players will need to work together. Bringing them together will require the United States’ leadership. One way to proceed would be for Washington to lead the five key parties —Asean, China, India, Japan and the US—in developing a coordinated international initiative.”

Meanwhile: Newsweek profiles Lt Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, till recently ISI chief and likely to succeed Gen Musharraf as chief of Pakistan’s army.