Signature Lecture: "Pakistan- A Hard Challenge for International Governance"

Anatol Lieven discusses Pakistan's surprising degree of stability; International governance challenges; the role of the army and ISI; the drug trade; and Pakistan's relationship with the U.S., Afghanistan, and other countries, including India, China, and Russia.

Anatol Lieven is chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His next book, "Pakistan: A Hard Country," will appear in April 2011.

Anatol Lieven has a BA in history and a PhD in political science from the University of Cambridge. From 1986 to 1998 he worked as a British journalist, mainly in the former Soviet Union and South Asia. During this period he covered the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Chechen war of 1994-96 and other conflicts.

In recent years Anatol Lieven has worked chiefly on aspects of the "war on terror", including contemporary US global strategy and its background in US history and political culture. He writes a monthly column for the Financial Times, and is published frequently in other newspapers and journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the National Interest.
Professor Lieven has travelled extensively for research in Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world.

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[MadeinTaiwan100]

Great stuff. I wish we had scholars like these in our own country.

How oblivious we are to the looming water crisis. This man should be applauded for just highlighting that fact and many other things.

[gonedoolali]

@manhornz You are looking at Official figures for Pakistan! Are you otherwise touched -Yes 2,8% correct -and 70% for the generals family friends and private bank account -But me thinks you will not find the ledger for that - Lets be real please -and look at facts -Not the sort of erased history taught in these countries -The you might actually do well -Maybe!

[manhornz]

@gonedoolali

Actually I completely disagree with this author in a number of issues (though there one or two points on the political dynamic that I believe are right)

For starters Pakistan's military does not get an abnormal amount of state funding. In fact they get about 2.8% of the GDP in funding (like India) - milexdata.sipri. org/

All of the issues center around lack of tax collection b/c of incompetent and/or corrupt leaders (particularly in government) as I'll explain...

[gonedoolali]

@56fayaz He is doing a good job selling that book -I bought it -It is brilliant and very true -It will take an outsider to raise the smell in the house -The natives have got used to it!

[56fayaz]

The person giving lecture has painted a very negative picture of Pakistan to sell his book to those innocent AH who don't have an idea about this part of the world because they only watch CNN a Canadian news channels! and they don't tell the truth, they should watch RT& Press TV to know what is US and NATO forces doing doing in this part of the WORLD.

US has no business here,they are the one who are turning normal people into terrorist, they are here to Rob countries of their natural resources

[maj786able]

bullshit the western world is more corrupt