Government Institutes Fall Publications Catalogue - 17

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Global Security/The Middle East New New New

The Iraq Effect

THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE IRAQ WAR
Frederic Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jessica Watkins, Jeffrey Martini, Robert A. Guffey

Seth G. Jones, C. Christine Fair

Counterinsurgency in Pakistan
“Counterinsurgency in Pakistan is by far the most comprehensive and detailed work I have read on counterinsurgency efforts in the tribal areas of Pakistan. It is both strategic and tactical, raises all the right issues, describes in great detail the operations about which little is known, and has a good mix of military strategy with the politics involved. It should be given the widest readership, including in Pakistan.” —Ahmed Rashid, Author of Taliban and Descent in Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia “Counterinsurgency in Pakistan is an extremely useful book that addresses the U.S. government’s most pressing policy issue today: the situation in Pakistan. It is especially helpful because such a composite and detailed assessment has not appeared elsewhere.” —John H. Gill, Professor at the Near East South Asia Center at the National Defense University The Militant Challenge • Pakistani Operations Against Militants • Counterinsurgency and Persuasion • A Population-Centric Strategy • About the Authors/Bibliography 978-0-8330-4976-6 • 2010 • 208 pages $23.00 • paper
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Pakistan

CAN THE UNITED STATES SECURE AN INSECURE STATE?

“A rigorous, challenging assessment of regional trends which refreshingly draws primarily on regional sources instead of recycled American conventional wisdom.” —Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war’s long-term consequences, the authors analyzed its effects on the regional balance of power, local perceptions of U.S. credibility, the domestic stability of neighboring states, and trends in terrorism after conducting extensive interviews in the region and drawing from an array of local media sources. An Altered Strategic Landscape: The Shifting Regional Balance of Power • New Challenges to American Influence: Chinese and Russian Roles in the Middle East • Domestic Reverberations of the War: Internal Challenges to Regime Stability • The Iraq War and the Future of Terrorism: Lessons Learned and New Strategic Trends • Conclusion: Managing the Aftershocks of Iraq and Seizing Opportunities • Bibliography 978-0-8330-4788-5 • 2010 • 238 pages $40.00 • paper
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C. Christine Fair, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Samir Puri, Michael Spirtas
Describing Pakistan’s likely future course, this book seeks to inform U.S. efforts to achieve an effective foreign policy strategy toward the country. The book forms an empirical analysis of developments in Pakistan and an assessment of the effectiveness of U.S. policy as of August 2009. Drawing on interviews of elites, polling data, and statistical data on Pakistan’s armed forces, the book presents a political and political-military analysis. The book assesses Pakistan’s own policies, based on similar sources, on government documents, and on the authors’ close reading of the assessments of several outside observers. The authors discuss U.S. policy regarding Pakistan, based on interviews with U.S. policymakers and on U.S. policy documents, and make policy recommendations from their assessment of the findings in all these areas. The book concludes with a number of recommendations on how the United States could forge a broad yet effective relationship with this complicated state. Summary/Introduction/Pakistan’s Future: Is Past Prologue? • Pakistan’s Ability to Mitigate Sources of Insecurity • How Effective Have U.S. Policies Toward Pakistan Been? • U.S. Policy Options for Pakistan • Bibliography 978-0-8330-4807-3 • 2010 • 260 pages $35.00 • paper
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