Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame
5/9/2024 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Location: DACOR Bacon House, 1801 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
Event Description
Join us for an ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book Launch with Ted Craig on his book, Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame.
In Pakistan and American Diplomacy, volume #75 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, former senior U.S. embassy and State Department official Ted Craig offers the detailed insights of an American diplomat who participated in key episodes in U.S.-Pakistan relations since 2010. His astute, fast-moving diplomatic tour de force includes unsparing assessments of U.S. and Pakistani policy mistakes that fueled the long Afghan war and its disappointing end.
“Ted Craig’s book is packed with the wisdom of a professional diplomat, its pages peppered with insights won through tours of high-pressure diplomacy in Islamabad. A keen observer of the sport of politics and the politics of sport, Craig is above all a judicious analyst who accepts that in South Asian geopolitics, unlike cricket, lose-lose outcomes are always possible, even likely.”
–– Daniel Markey, South Asia senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace
In the 2019 Cricket World Cup, as Pakistan squared off against key neighbors (Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh) and its former colonial ruler (Britain), Craig used each chapter to foreground a major issue in U.S.-Pakistan diplomacy. He also examined the excitement and ultimate disappointment accompanying the rise to power of former cricket star Imran Khan.
“Ted Craig weaves a short history of Pakistani cricket and the 2019 Cricket World Cup through his political analysis, describing the events and contests with the enthusiasm of a new fan. . . .The cricket enlivens his broader discussion as he finds illuminating connections between the sport and the geopolitics of South Asia.”
–– Ali Gauhar, Pakistani cricket host and analyst
Ted Craig’s twenty-nine-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service included two tours in Islamabad, Pakistan, the second as Political Counselor. He holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and taught as a Fellow at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His service also included three tours in Latin America, a tour on the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff, and policy jobs on peace and security, the global environment, and human rights. He is currently a senior program advisor for the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism, serving in South and Central Asia.
