A D VA N C E P R A I S E F O R RIEDEL akistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive DEADLY EMBRACE American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the BRUCE RIEDEL is a South Asian nation, and many of the resulting senior fellow in Foreign “ Bruce Riedel has written a brilliantly insightful and powerfully compelling Ppolicies proved counterproductive in the long term, book that is a must-read for understanding the perilous situation in South contributing to political instability and a radicalized Policy and the Saban Asia—and how America can correct its failed policies.” public. This background has helped set the stage for Center for Middle East DEADLY EMBRACE —TINA BROWN, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, D E A D LY the global jihad confronting much of the world today. Policy at the Brookings editor-in-chief at Newsweek PAKISTAN, AMERICA, AND Institution. A former CIA In Deadly Embrace, Bruce Riedel explores the forces THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD behind these developments, explaining how and why officer, Riedel was a senior “ For a country that hosts al-Qaeda and the Taliban, has nuclear weapons, and the history of Pakistan-U.S. relations has unfolded as adviser to four U.S. presi- will soon be the fifth most populous country in the world, there are surpris- it has. He explains what the United States can do now dents on Middle East and ingly few good books about Pakistan. Bruce Riedel has now produced an to repair the damage and how it can avoid making excellent volume on the country that is both analytically sharp and cogently similar mistakes in dealing with extremist forces in South Asian issues. At the written. It will engage both specialists and the interested public. Essential Pakistan and beyond. request of President Obama he chaired reading.” Riedel is one of America’s foremost authorities on an interagency review of policy toward —PETER BERGEN, author of Holy War, Inc. and EMBRACE U.S. security, South Asia, and terrorism, and he Afghanistan and Pakistan for the White The Osama bin Laden I Know helped to craft President Obama’s 2009 speech refer- House, completed in March 2009. He is ring to the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands as the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its “ The U.S.-Pakistan misalliance remains on the front pages, even as the “most dangerous region of the world.” He follows up The Search for al Qaeda, his influential 2008 analysis Leadership, Ideology, and Future, is a Afghanistan war hopefully starts to wind down. But the war inside Pakistan is not over, nor will it be any time soon. This insider’s account of the rise of of the terror network’s ideology and leadership, with a frequent media commentator on security global ‘jihad’ and its effect on the U.S.-Pakistan relationship connects the sober, authoritative, and sometimes alarming look at and terrorism, and is a regular contribu- dots for U.S. policymakers and laypersons alike.” the history, importance, and current role of Pakistan, tor to The Daily Beast. epicenter of the global jihad movement, beginning —SHUJA NAWAZ, author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army with the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations since the and the Wars Within and director of the South Asia Center partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947. at the Atlantic Council The relationship between Pakistan and America is a “ On a scale of one to ten of the toughest and most complex policy challenges fascinating yet muddled story, meandering through facing the U.S. anywhere in the world, Pakistan is a fifteen. In Deadly periods of friendship and enmity, symbiosis and Embrace, Bruce Riedel offers us great insight, sound advice, and some hope distrust: it’s no wonder that people in both nations are that this challenge can be met. Our nation’s security depends on it.” confused. Deadly Embrace explains how the United States, on several occasions, actually helped the foes —KARL INDERFURTH, Elliott School of International Relations of democracy in Pakistan and aided in the develop- at George Washington University, and former U.S. assistant ment of the very enemies it is now fighting in the secretary of state for South Asian affairs region. The book seeks to unravel this paradox, revealing and interpreting the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations, which remain, in many ways, stuck with each other. A SABAN CENTER AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION BOOK BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS COVER PHOTOGRAPH: © REUTERS/KAMRAN WAZIR Washington, D.C. JACKET BY SESE-PAUL DESIGN www.brookings.edu A D VA N C E P R A I S E F O R RIEDEL akistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive DEADLY EMBRACE American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the BRUCE RIEDEL is a South Asian nation, and many of the resulting senior fellow in Foreign “ Bruce Riedel has written a brilliantly insightful and powerfully compelling Ppolicies proved counterproductive in the long term, book that is a must-read for understanding the perilous situation in South contributing to political instability and a radicalized Policy and the Saban Asia—and how America can correct its failed policies.” public. This background has helped set the stage for Center for Middle East DEADLY EMBRACE —TINA BROWN, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, D E A D LY the global jihad confronting much of the world today. Policy at the Brookings editor-in-chief at Newsweek PAKISTAN, AMERICA, AND Institution. A former CIA In Deadly Embrace, Bruce Riedel explores the forces THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD behind these developments, explaining how and why officer, Riedel was a senior “ For a country that hosts al-Qaeda and the Taliban, has nuclear weapons, and the history of Pakistan-U.S. relations has unfolded as adviser to four U.S. presi- will soon be the fifth most populous country in the world, there are surpris- it has. He explains what the United States can do now dents on Middle East and ingly few good books about Pakistan. Bruce Riedel has now produced an to repair the damage and how it can avoid making excellent volume on the country that is both analytically sharp and cogently similar mistakes in dealing with extremist forces in South Asian issues. At the written. It will engage both specialists and the interested public. Essential Pakistan and beyond. request of President Obama he chaired reading.” Riedel is one of America’s foremost authorities on an interagency review of policy toward —PETER BERGEN, author of Holy War, Inc. and EMBRACE U.S. security, South Asia, and terrorism, and he Afghanistan and Pakistan for the White The Osama bin Laden I Know helped to craft President Obama’s 2009 speech refer- House, completed in March 2009. He is ring to the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands as the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its “ The U.S.-Pakistan misalliance remains on the front pages, even as the “most dangerous region of the world.” He follows up The Search for al Qaeda, his influential 2008 analysis Leadership, Ideology, and Future, is a Afghanistan war hopefully starts to wind down. But the war inside Pakistan is not over, nor will it be any time soon. This insider’s account of the rise of of the terror network’s ideology and leadership, with a frequent media commentator on security global ‘jihad’ and its effect on the U.S.-Pakistan relationship connects the sober, authoritative, and sometimes alarming look at and terrorism, and is a regular contribu- dots for U.S. policymakers and laypersons alike.” the history, importance, and current role of Pakistan, tor to The Daily Beast. epicenter of the global jihad movement, beginning —SHUJA NAWAZ, author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army with the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations since the and the Wars Within and director of the South Asia Center partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947. at the Atlantic Council The relationship between Pakistan and America is a “ On a scale of one to ten of the toughest and most complex policy challenges fascinating yet muddled story, meandering through facing the U.S. anywhere in the world, Pakistan is a fifteen. In Deadly periods of friendship and enmity, symbiosis and Embrace, Bruce Riedel offers us great insight, sound advice, and some hope distrust: it’s no wonder that people in both nations are that this challenge can be met. Our nation’s security depends on it.” confused. Deadly Embrace explains how the United States, on several occasions, actually helped the foes —KARL INDERFURTH, Elliott School of International Relations of democracy in Pakistan and aided in the develop- at George Washington University, and former U.S. assistant ment of the very enemies it is now fighting in the secretary of state for South Asian affairs region. The book seeks to unravel this paradox, revealing and interpreting the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations, which remain, in many ways, stuck with each other. A SABAN CENTER AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION BOOK BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS COVER PHOTOGRAPH: © REUTERS/KAMRAN WAZIR Washington, D.C. 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