Hassan Abbas
Auteur de Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America's War Terror
A propos de l'auteur
Hassan Abbas is Chair of the Department of Regional and Analytical Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, Washington DC. A distinguished Pakistani-American academic and advisor, he discussed The Taliban Revival on the Daily Show and blogs at afficher plus watandostblogspot.com. afficher moins
Œuvres de Hassan Abbas
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1969
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Pakistan
- Lieux de résidence
- USA
- Études
- Tufts University (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - PhD)
University of Nottingham (LLM - International Law) - Organisations
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), Michigan
Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), University of Bradford
Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 105
- Popularité
- #183,191
- Évaluation
- 2.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
Given the limitations of the project, Hassan Abbas does a creditable job. Some of his interpretations of pre-partition and the 50s and 60s seem overly simplistic and convey received wisdom rather than genuine insight, but when he moves into the times he is best acquainted with [from Bhutto to Musharraf], and most concerned with, the book is highly informative. Abbas is highly critical of the myopic policies of followed by the ruling elite, and also shows how the military has remained power-brokers even during the so called democratic era of the 90s.
The books is a valuable guide to the governments policies but it fails to examine other important and pertinent aspects of Pakistan's 'Drift into Extremism'. As such it is only part of the whole story.… (plus d'informations)