Pakistan in Peril

Benazir Bhutto is dead. Her assassination and the Musharraf government’s reaction to it is transforming the political landscape of a nuclear-armed nation in a volatile region.The New America Foundation/American Strategy Program invites you to attend a discussion with leading experts who will examine the implications of recent events and U.S. policy towards the region. New America President and New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll and Schwartz Senior Fellow Peter Bergen, both recently back from Pakistan in the past week, will open the discussion followed by comments from Senior Fellow Flynt Leverett, former senior director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. The event and Q&A will be moderated by Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at New America.

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Participants

• Nicholas Schmidle
  Fellow, Institute of Current World Affairs
  Author, “Next Gen-Taliban,” New York Times Magazine, Jan. 6, 2008

• Steve Coll
  President, New America Foundation
  Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Ghost Wars
  New Yorker Staff Writer
  Co-Director, Terrorism and Counterinsurgency Initiative, New America Foundation

• Peter Bergen
  Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
  CNN Terrorism Analyst
  Co-Director, Terrorism and Counterinsurgency Initiative, New America Foundation

• Flynt Leverett
  Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
  Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative, New America Foundation
  Former Senior Director, Middle East Affairs, National Security Council

• Steven Clemons
  Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
  Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com