{"product_id":"deadly-embrace-pakistan-america-and-the-future-of-the-global-jihad-9780815722748","title":"Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad","description":"\u003cp\u003ePakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing the population, setting the stage for the global jihad we face today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Riedel, one of America's foremost authorities on U.S. security and South Asia, sketches the history of U.S.-Pakistani relations from partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 up through the present day. It is muddled story, meandering through periods of friendship and enmity. Riedel deftly interprets the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations that remain, in many ways, stuck with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Preface to the paperback provides an inside account of the discovery of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout that led to the al Qaeda leader's demise. Accusations of Pakistani complicity in harboring bin Laden once again dramatized the ambivalence and distrust existing between two nations that purport to be allies. Riedel discusses what it all means for the war on terror and the future of U.S.- Pakistani relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the hardcover edition of \u003ci\u003eDeadly Embrace \u003c\/i\u003e \"Mr. Riedel, who has advised no fewer than four American presidents, knows power from the inside--something he is keen to share with the reader.... His book provides a useful account of the dysfunctional relationship between Pakistan and America.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003e \"Bruce Riedel has produced an excellent volume that is both analytically sharp and cogently written. It will engage both specialists and the interested public. Essential reading.\"--Peter Bergen, author of \u003ci\u003eHoly War, Inc. \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Osama bin Laden I Know \u003c\/i\u003e \"Riedel lucidly provides an overview of the last thirty years of Pakistan's internal politics, its relationship with the United States, as well as the various i\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Riedel\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future\u003c\/i\u003e (Brookings).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492150448402,"sku":"9780815722748","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f410957-df8a-46f3-a39a-008ed4bebafe.jpg?v=1730573424","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deadly-embrace-pakistan-america-and-the-future-of-the-global-jihad-9780815722748","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}