Over the last twenty years foreign and security policies have been subject to rapid change. This development is due to the end of the cold war and has been further accelerated after September 11. Traditional security policies such as deterrence and containment have been replaced by risk prevention, crisis intervention, and pre-emptive policy measures. This holds true especially in this part of the world where Pakistan and Afghanistan are meanwhile in the focus of international foreign relations and external security initiatives. Increasingly questions of foreign, security, and developmental policy have thus become intertwined. more