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We are pleased to invite each of you to attend the book launch for Ahmed Rashid’s Descent Into Chaos on June 30th, at 6.30pm. We are very fortunate to have the BBC’s Lyse Doucet chairing the evening, and this will also be a good opportunity to meet with Ahmed Rashid and discuss his work during a Question & Answer period as well as during the reception afterward. You will be able to purchase a copy of Descent Into Chaos that evening.

The book launch is being held in the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre at the Strand Campus of King’s College London. The event and the reception are free and open to the public.

The ASG is co-hosting this event with the LSE Crisis States Research Centre, the LSE Centre of Civil Society, the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group, the Afghanistan Study Group, King’s College London Department of Geography and Penguin Books Ltd. Please see below for further details and the event flyer. I hope to see many of you there. It should be an interesting evening with some dynamic discussions, we imagine!

 

BOOK LAUNCH:

DESCENT

into CHAOS

The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

by AHMED RASHID

DATE: June 30th, 2008, 6.30pm

LOCATION: Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

Ahmed Rashid will be speaking at 6.30pm and will engage in a question and answer session afterward.  The BBC’s Lyse Doucet will chair the evening.  Please come along to the reception following the talk to meet Ahmed and purchase your own copy of Descent Into Chaos.  

 This book launch is co-hosted by the LSE Crisis States Research Centre, the LSE Centre of Civil Society, the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group, the Afghanistan Study Group, King’s College London Department of Geography and Penguin Books Ltd. 

 About the Author:

Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist, based in Lahore, who writes for The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Review of Books, BBC Online and The Nation.  His previous books include Jihad, Taliban and The Resurgence of Central Asia.  He appears regularly on NPR, CNN, PBS and the BBC World Service.  With Descent Into Chaos Rashid returns to the region and to the corridors of power in Washington and Europe and shows us why it is so vital that we refocus our attentions on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

 

 

Summary of the Opening Seminar on Wednesday, 27 February 2008: Kate Clark (former BBC Correspondent in Afghanistan) and Jennifer McCarthy (PhD student at KCL) spoke on “The Commitment of the International Community to Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Lessons Learned?” Read the rest of this entry »