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  title info:
    title: Pakistan on the brink
    sub title: the future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  name:
    name part: Rashid, Ahmed.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 234 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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, Pakistan's preeminent journalist, 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.
  table of contents: 1. Osama and Obama, legacy and inheritance -- 2. Pakistan in crisis -- 3. Pakistan: who betrayed whom? -- 4. Afghanistan: the first surge and the failure of elections -- 5. Afghanistan: political and military fault lines -- 6. Afghanistan: talking to the Taliban -- 7. A sliver of hope: counterinsurgency in Swat -- 8. Broken relations, crimes and misdemeanours -- 9. Changing the narrative, or preparing for the worst.
  note: Ahmed Rashid.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-pk---
    geographic code: a-af---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Pakistan
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    geographic: Pakistan
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    topic: Afghan War, 2001-
  classification: DS383.5.A2 R36 2012
  classification: 327.5491
  identifier: 9780670023462
  identifier: 0670023469
  identifier: 2011045496
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 111104
    record change date: 20151202152426.0
    record identifier: in00002740995