Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

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Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive U.S. presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan, and many of these policies were counterproductive in the longer term, contributing to political instability and radicalization of the population. This has set the stage for the development of the global jihad we face today. In Deadly Embrace, Bruce Riedel explains how this happened, why it happened, how America can avoid making similar mistakes in the future, and what steps are necessary to begin repairing the damage.

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"Mr. Riedel, who has advised no fewer than four American presidents, knows powerfrom the inside something he is keen to share with the readers.... His book providesa useful account of the dysfunctional relationship between Pakistan and America." The Economist

"Bruce Riedel has written a brilliantly insightful and powerfully compelling book thatis a must-read for understanding the perilous situation in South Asia and how Americacan correct its failed policies." Tina Brown, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, editor-in-chief at Newsweek

"Riedel lucidly provides an overview of the last thirty years of Pakistan's internalpolitics, its relationship with the United States, as well as the various insurgent andterrorist groups with which it has had close association. The book is informed by hisown experiences over most of this period as an intelligence analyst for the U.S.government.... It is brilliant, and quite sobering yet hardly without hope." Foreign Policy

"For a country that hosts al-Qaeda and the Taliban, has nuclear weapons, and willsoon be the fifth most populous country in the world, there are surprisingly few goodbooks about Pakistan. Bruce Riedel has now produced an excellent volume on thecountry that is both analytically sharp and cogently written." Peter Bergen, authorof Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know

Author Bio

Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. A longtime CIA officer, he was a senior adviser to four U.S. presidents, and in 2009 he chaired an interagency review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Obama administration. He is also the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future (Brookings).