What are the possibilities--and hazards--facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid takes on
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What are the possibilities--and hazards--facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid takes on here. Rashid correctly predicted that the Iraq war would have to be refocused into Afghanistan and that Pakistan would emerge as the leading player through which American interests and actions would have to be directed. He focuses on the long-term problems--the changing casts of characters, the future of international terrorism, and the actual policies and strategies both within Pakistan and Afghanistan and among the Western allies--as the world tries to bring some stability to a fractured region saddled with a legacy of violence and corruption. The decisions made by America and the West will affect the security and safety of the world.
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Authors:
Rashid, Ahmed
Statement of Responsibility:
Ahmed Rashid
Title:
Pakistan on the brink
the future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Publisher:
New York :, Viking,, [2012], c2012
Characteristics:
xxi, 234 p. :,maps ;,22 cm
Content Type:
text
Media Type:
unmediated
Carrier Type:
volume
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Osama and Obama, legacy and inheritance
Pakistan in crisis
Pakistan: who betrayed whom?
Afghanistan: the first surge and the failure of elections
Afghanistan: political and military fault lines
Afghanistan: talking to the Taliban
A sliver of hope: counterinsurgency in Swat
Broken relations, crimes and misdemeanours
Changing the narrative, or preparing for the worst
Summary:
What are the possibilities--and hazards--facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid takes on here. Rashid correctly predicted that the Iraq war would have to be refocused into Afghanistan and that Pakistan would emerge as the leading player through which American interests and actions would have to be directed. He focuses on the long-term problems--the changing casts of characters, the future of international terrorism, and the actual policies and strategies both within Pakistan and Afghanistan and among the Western allies--as the world tries to bring some stability to a fractured region saddled with a legacy of violence and corruption. The decisions made by America and the West will affect the security and safety of the world.
Awards & Distinctions:
Government & politics
Subject Headings:
Afghan War, 2001-
Pakistan Foreign relations
Pakistan Politics and government
Afghanistan Foreign relations
Afghanistan Politics and government
United States Foreign relations
Topical Term:
Afghan War, 2001-
LCCN:
2011045496
ISBN:
9780670023462
0670023469
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