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[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]
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A character-driven history that describes the bizarrely ill-suited alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US.
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension, and always has been. Pakistan -- to American eyes -- has gone from being a stabilizing friend to an essential military ally to a seedbed of terror. America -- to Pakistani eyes -- has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military supplier and ally, and now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation. In their sixty-five year relationship, one country has become a global superpower, the other perilously close to a failed state -- perhaps one of the most dangerous places in the world.
Husain Haqqani has a unique insight into Pakistan, his homeland, and America, where he was the Pakistani ambassador and is now a professor at Boston University. His life has mapped the relationship of Pakistan and America, and he has found himself often close to the heart of it -- sometimes in very confrontational circumstances, even under house arrest -- which has allowed him to write the story of the two countries' turbulent affair, here memorably laid bare.
- Published on: 2013-11-05
- Formats: Audiobook, CD
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 12
- Dimensions: 6.70" h x 1.20" w x 6.10" l, .80 pounds
- Running time: 52200 seconds
- Binding: Audio CD
From Publishers Weekly
Mistrust and cross-purposes characterize relations between Pakistan and the U.S., writes Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S from 2008 to 2011 and now a Boston University professor, in this insightful if disturbing history. During the bloodshed of 1947, India's forces drove Pakistan from Kashmir, a Muslim majority region that, theoretically, belonged to Muslim Pakistan. Obsession over Kashmir's loss persists, creating a virtual permanent war with India; civil government remains subservient to the military, which absorbs most of Pakistan's revenue, leaving little for economic development. Pakistani leaders quickly requested U.S aid, trumpeting their anticommunism. America responded modestly but generously after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and massively after 9/11. Pakistan spends the bulk of its resources facing India—American leaders accept this as the price of cooperation but gnash their teeth over Pakistan's tepid enthusiasm for our war on terror. Pakistan's generals have no love for al-Qaeda but have long supported the Afghan Taliban and would prefer them to the present government. Making it clear why he is persona non grata in his homeland, Haqqani concludes that military aid has undermined Pakistan's democracy, converting it into a rentier state living off American money rather than its people's productivity. Agent: the Wylie Agency. (Nov.)
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''Mistrust and cross-purposes characterize relations between Pakistan and the US, writes Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US from 2008 to 2011 and now a Boston University professor, in this insightful if disturbing history . . . Haqqani concludes that military aid has undermined Pakistan's democracy, converting it into a rentier state living off American money rather than its people's productivity.'' --Publishers Weekly
''[An] insightful, painful history of Pakistani-American relations . . . Demonstrating no mercy to either party, Haqqani admits that Pakistan verges on failed-state status but shows little patience with America's persistently shortsighted, fruitless policies.'' --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Magnificent Delusions provides a fascinating insider's account of America's important but troubled relationship with Pakistan. Ambassador Haqqani's purpose is not to fix blame, but to explain how two countries that have for 60 years described themselves as allies can nevertheless misunderstand each other thoroughly and repeatedly. Richly-detailed, this skillfully written narrative will enlighten scholars, entrance average readers, and give future diplomats much to contemplate. It is a timely, valuable and objective book.'' --Madeleine Albright
''This is a must-read book for anyone who seeks to understand geopolitics in the 21st century. Husain Haqqani provides a riveting insider's account of the complex, and critically important relationship between America and Pakistan. He knows both countries well, and his personal insights and objective analysis can help dispel the misunderstandings that are so dangerous.'' Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute --Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute
About the Author
HUSAIN HAQQANI was Pakistan s ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. A trusted advisor of late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is a professor at Boston University and Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute. He also coedits the journal Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and others.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A sorry tale but true
By ewaffle
Haqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States and currently persona non grata (extremely non grata) from his homeland, denounced as a traitor and accused of betraying the Pakistani military in favor of the United States, has no illusions about who runs his native land and who benefits from it. While "Magnificent Delusions" may seem over the top in places the more one reads about and studies South Asia the more one realizes that his book is very much on the money.
Haqqani writes that Pakistan has had an inflated view of its importance on the world stage since 1947 and expects the United States to fund and arm it. At the same time U.S. intelligence and political leaders refused to see that the Pakistani military was created, trained and deployed for war with India particularly to force the return of Kashmir to Pakistan. They continued to tell themselves that Pakistan was part of a bulwark against the USSR. In reality the Pakistani enemies list started and stopped with India although there were always belligerent noises toward Israel. The pro forma pronouncements against the Soviets in Afghanistan were mainly to keep the flow of funds moving from Washington. In recent years, their erstwhile proxies (Pakistan Taliban, al Qaeda, etc.) have turned their guns on the Pakistani state itself.
While the sorry tale of the huge increase in U.S. military aid to Pakistan after soviet invasion of Afghanistan doesn't need retelling, one unintended consequence was increasing funds for the development of an "Islamic bomb" in Pakistan. The Saudis contributed billions to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda operations while the United States matched much of it. There was so much money sloshing around with essentially no oversight or control from the donors it was easy to surreptitiously transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to the nuclear program.
Well written and told by a real insider.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Dr. Haqqani's current effort.
By wsps
I usually do not write reviews of the books but I think this book made me concerned enough to write one. Dr. Haqqani has written a “well researched” book that actually is quite a venomous opinion piece about Pakistan. The research that he did for this book, was basically to build up a case, about, how successive governments in Pakistan lied and cheated the world specially United States for their own purposes. This is like a 7 years old brat who is asking for guns from his parents and grandparents and all of them are naive and nice enough to give in to his demands. According to Dr. Haqqani’s argument, the kid is on fault as he should have known better.
By writing this book, Dr. Haqqani is trying to make a moral argument about the immorality of Pakistan. It is a difficult mantle to carry on by someone who started his political career as the president of student wing of Jamait-e-Islami (Muslim hardliners with extremist wings in Afghanistan and Kashmir). Later he saw the “light” and became the supporter of Zia-ul-Haq (Army dictator) and later his prot�g� Nawaz Sharif. During Nawaz’s first term, Dr. Haqqani became the ambassador to Sri Lanka. When Nawaz’s government was toppled and Benazir Bhutto came into power, Dr. Haqqani again saw the “light” and efficiently switched boats to join her government. Later he was ambassador to US until Supreme Court of Pakistan charged him with treason, because of a memo that he wrote to Admiral Mike Mullan to intervene in Pakistan while offering him numerous rewards from Govt. of Pakistan. It is quite ironic that he did the same thing for which he is criticizing his country in the current book. After reading the book, I was just surprised that how someone with such a hatred towards their parent country can represent her in this difficult world. Pakistan Supreme Court answered that question slightly by saying in their judicial report that “Hussain Haqqani was not loyal to Pakistan”.
There may be other books that can give you a more neutral picture of Pakistan. On the other hand if you want to get a hateful opinion from one of the “insiders’ then this book is for you. Looking at Mr. Haqqani’s life as an opportunistic individual, my guess is that, as he cannot go back to Pakistan because of pending legal charges, Dr. Haqqani has seen the “light” again (probably 5th time in his life) and is trying to pant himself as an antiestablishment and anti-Pakistan person to get some invitations from news channels (FOX etc) as an “expert”.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Important case study in international relations
By Seth Oldmixon
A fundamental requirement of effective foreign policy is cultural competency: The ability to communicate in a way that meaning is not distorted when messages are translated across worldviews and political contexts. When communications are not assessed within the contexts from which they emerge, confusion can result. When one or both sides hears what they want to hear, however, it is not confusion, but delusion that results. As an advisor to two Prime Ministers and Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011, Husain Haqqani saw first hand the dysfunction that can seep into international relations when one or both sides bases their foreign policy in delusion.
Husain Haqqani's first-hand experience in US-Pakistan relations notwithstanding, "Magnificent Delusions" is not a memoir, but a case study. Haqqani begins his examination of US-Pakistan relations before Pakistan's independence in 1947, and details a history of both sides hearing what they wanted to hear while ignoring the global and domestic political contexts in which events were unfolding.
Neither is the book a polemic against the US or Pakistan. From Secretary of State Dulles overlooking the eerily prescient observations of Ambassador Langley in the late 1950s to Pakistan's misunderstanding of the limits of US obligations in bilateral security agreements, Haqqani details a history in which both countries have developed foreign policy around a set of wishful assumptions rather than contextual analysis.
"Magnificent Delusions" serves as a point of reorientation for US-Pakistan relations, but it also provides an important case study to guide the development of other relationships as well.
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