Rashid, a leading authority on the Taliban, will present “Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia” at 8 p.m. next Thursday in the University Center Ballroom.
His newest book of the same title is a critique of both America’s and Europe’s failure to invest in rebuilding Afghanistan and Pakistan’s role in allowing Taliban and al Qaeda elements to regroup. He will explain why he thinks the American-dominated status quo in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia has been helpless to stem the resurgence of the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Both event are free and open to the public.
Rashid’s campus events are presented in conjunction with UM’s First-Year Reading Experience program.
The author’s book “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia” is the program’s fall semester reading selection.
On the Net: First Year Reading Experience program, http://www.lib.umt.edu/firstyear/readingexperience.htm; President’s Lecture Series, http://www.umt.edu/president/pls.
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