The Rumi Forum presented “Danger Zone: Pakistan and the United States on a Collision Course” with Shuja Nawaz, political and strategic analyst.
An examination of the deteriorating US-Pakistan relationship in the context of Afghanistan and the rising militancy inside Afghanistan and Pakistan. What are the key factors at work? What role will the Pakistan Army play in this situation? Can the civilian government form a national consensus? What Americans need to know about future prospects in a dangerous neighborhood of the world.
Shuja Nawaz is the author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (2008) for Oxford University Press. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the Henry Taylor Award. He was a television newscaster and producer with Pakistan Television from 1967 to 1972 and covered the 1971 war with India on the Western front. He has worked for The New York Times, the World Health Organization, as a Division Chief for the International Monetary Fund, and a Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has widely written and spoken on military and politico-economic issues on radio, television, and at Think Tanks. He was Editor of Finance & Development, the multilingual quarterly of the IMF and the World Bank.
Moderator:
Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as an analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2003. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.