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U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Pakistan
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Date: Thursday, 10 January 2008
Time: 3:00 p.m. EST (2000 GMT)
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The current political crisis in Pakistan is the topic of a USINFO Webchat with international affairs specialist Walter Russell Mead. Fallout from the Bhutto assassination and the delay of national elections will be among the topics Mr. Mead will cover during this discussion of U.S. foreign policy towards Pakistan in a rapidly changing environment. In addition Mead will touch upon the U.S. stance towards the democratic process in Pakistan, the fight against extremists and the safe management of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
Guest Biography: Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country’s leading students of American foreign policy. His book, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), was widely hailed as an important study that will change the way Americans and others think about American foreign policy.
His most recent book, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), is a major study of 400 years of conflict between Anglophone powers and rivals ranging from absolute monarchies like Spain and France through Communist and Fascist enemies in the twentieth century to al-Qaeda today. Mr. Mead’s chief intellectual interests involve the rise and development of a liberal, capitalist world order based on the economic, social, and military power of the United States and its closest allies. He is interested in the implications of this evolving world order for American foreign policy and for American and international society.
He is an honors graduate of Groton and Yale. He has traveled widely in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is a founding board member of the New America Foundation.
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