US, Pakistan, and the End-Game in Afghanistan: Making a Broken Partnership Work

In this talk, Moeed Yusuf defines the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, focusing specifically on the 2014 security transition in Afghanistan. Yusuf examines the importance of Pakistan in the Afghan context, and why the U.S. and Pakistan must work together to achieve their goals. Yusuf explains that there is much more convergence in Pakistani and American interests in the reconciliation phase in Afghanistan than is reported in the media.

Moeed Yusuf is the South Asia adviser at the United States Institute of Peace and is responsible for managing the Institute’s Pakistan program. Before joining USIP, Yusuf was a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2007, he co-founded Strategic and Economic Policy Research, a private sector consultancy firm in Pakistan. He has also consulted for a number of Pakistani and international organizations.

Yusuf taught at Boston University’s Political Science and International Relations Departments as a senior teaching fellow. He has published widely in national and international journals, professional publications and magazines. He writes a column for Dawn, Pakistan and regularly appears as an expert on U.S. and Pakistani media. He recently testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S.-Pakistan relations.

Click here to read a policy brief by Yusuf on the same topic of this lecture.

Date: Wednesday October 12, 2011

Time: 5:30-7:15 PM (first half hour is a reception)

Venue: Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Place, Denver 80204

Price: $25 Members, $35 Non-members & Guests