Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan - Couverture rigide

Rashid, Ahmed

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670023469 ISBN 13 : 9780670023462

Editeur : Viking Adult, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Rashid Ahmed

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.

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 in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices as President Obama considers our complicated history and faces reelection?

These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid- Pakistan's preeminent journalist-takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos. 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. Now, as Washington and the rest of the West wrestle with negotiating with unreliable and unstable "allies" in Pakistan, there is no better guide to the dark future than Ahmed Rashid.

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. And as he has done so well in the past, Rashid offers sensible solutions and provides a way forward for all three countries.

Revue de presse :

The foremost chronicler of modern Afghan and Pakistani history (The Times )

Pakistan's best and bravest reporter (Christopher Hitchens )

A journalist of the highest narrative and analytic gifts (Max Hastings )

His knowledge of events and people there is second to none (Kim Sengupta )

A superb work on the future of Pakistan, a country many people deem the world's most dangerous (Bruce Riedel Washington Post )

Ahmed Rashid has established a well-earned reputation as a meticulous, reliable and authoritative chronicler of events in south-west and central Asia ... Unlike many journalists ... Rashid does have the courage to outline how he believes the catastrophic situation in both his homeland (Pakistan) and its neighbour, Afghanistan, can be improved (Jason Burke Guardian )

Rashid assembles a broad network of sources on all sides of the debate and is probing in his treatment of all the main actors ... a powerful and pacey primer (Shiraz Maher Spectator )

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Adult
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0670023469
• ISBN 13: 9780670023462
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256