Tuesday evening, journalist and author of the new book To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle joined the Council and Marines’ Memorial Association to discuss his experience in Pakistan. During a period when President Pervez Musharraf’s power was waning, and the Taliban’s was growing, Schmidle lived and reported in the [...]
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An Award-Winning Journalist’s Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Posted in Asia, tagged Nicholas Schmidle, Pakistan, Politics, Taliban, To Live Or To Perish Forever on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Challenges Facing Pakistan
Posted in Asia, Policy, Politics, tagged Asia Foundation, Civil Society, Counterinsurgency, Economy, Education, Governance, Jon Summers, Pakistan, World Affairs Council on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having returned from Islamabad only a month ago, Asia Foundation expert Jon Summers shared some of his knowledge and insights into the current situation in Pakistan with Council members last night. He laid out myriad challenges facing Pakistan, from governance and counterinsurgency to the economy and education, and he suggested potential strategies to deal with [...]
Obama’s Inheritance: The Opportunity Costs of the Iraq War
Posted in Middle East, Policy, Politics, tagged Afghanistan, David Sanger, Iran, Iraq War, Journalism, New York Times, North Korea, Obama, Pakistan, The Inheritance, World Affairs Council on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times, drew a large and attentive audience to our auditorium last night for his lecture, “The World Obama Confronts.” Although accounts of the Iraq War often focus on its direct costs, Sanger, in his lecture and recently published first book, The Inheritance, explores the depth of [...]
The Taliban, Foreign Policy and the War on Terror
Posted in Asia, Policy, Politics, tagged Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, How to win a Cosmic War, ideological war, Islam, Islamic militant groups, Muslim, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Policy, Politics, religious war, Reza Aslan, Taliban, The Daily Beast, War on Terror on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As violence and tension rises among Islamic militant groups and the Taliban, award-winning author, scholar of religions, and columnist for The Daily Beast, Reza Aslan, joined the World Affairs Council for a discussion on his new book How to Win a Cosmic War. Examining the worldview of Muslim militant groups and the previous administration’s approach [...]
Pakistan’s Dr. A.Q. Khan released
Posted in Asia, Politics, tagged Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz, Dr. A Q Khan, International Security, Nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, The Nuclear Jihadist, World Affairs Council on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pakistan released nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan on Friday – the former head of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, and a man who has admitted to transferring nuclear secrets to other countries. According to a BBC article, the US continues to regard Dr. Khan as a “serious proliferation risk.”
Here at the Council, we [...]
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