Description
The book stands out for being a very comprehensive, brilliantly insightful analysis of the terrorist challenge in Pakistan, its impact on global security, and the possible way forward. A must-read for anyone interested in having a holistic and objective view of terrorism in Pakistan. -- Tariq Parvez, former National Coordinator, National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), Pakistan, and former director general, Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan Moeed Yusuf has brought together top analysts to assess Pakistan's counterterrorism challenge, and they have provided a sobering analysis. Uniformly rigorous and extremely well-informed, they outline Pakistan's deep challenges: lack of policy clarity, lack of coordination, and unresolved civil-military relations. Yet in a brilliant finale, the book describes Pakistan's 'survival of internal paradoxes' that keeps it stable while satisfying no one. These essays are required reading for those grappling with Pakistan's post-2014 future. -- Cameron Munter, professor of International Relations, Pomona College. Served as US Ambassador to Pakistan 2010-12. It is hard to understate the significance of Pakistan's terrorism and militancy problem which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Pakistanis. Terrorists have also succeeded in killing so many of Pakistan's leading politicians, not least two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. At the same time, Pakistan has also incubated the groups that have perpetrated some of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the past decade, from the London Underground bombings of July 7, 2005, to the assaults in Mumbai in November 2008. Therefore it is especially fitting that Moeed Yusuf, one of the world's leading experts on Pakistan, has assembled an all star cast of Pakistan experts to consider how best to understand this scourge and what to do about it. Yusuf's skillfully edited volume is essential to understanding Pakistan's security challenges and possible ways to deal with them. -- Peter L. Bergen, author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
About the Author
Moeed Yusuf is the director of South Asia Programs at the US Institute of Peace. Prior to joining USIP, Yusuf was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is coeditor of South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures and Getting It Right in Afghanistan, and editor of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia: Through a Peacebuilding Lens.
Reviews
This edited volume is not only timely but addresses a pertinent, complex and under-researched issue using an unusually holistic lens of analysis... An important contribution to the literature and will be of interest to both laypersons as well as those who are already much more familiar with the complex landscape of Pakistani [counter-terrorism]. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781626160453
Author Moeed Yusuf
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Georgetown University Press
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Weight(grams) 408g