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Hemmeter History Lecture: "No Exit from Pakistan"

Montclair Kimberley Academy presents a Hemmeter History Lecture: “No

Exit from Pakistan” with Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and

South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.



A prolific author, Dr. Markey’s most recent

book is No Exit from Pakistan: America's Tortured

Relationship with Islamabad which examines the future of the

U.S.-Pakistan relationship and which will be the focus of his lecture. 

His numerous other publications include the February 2013

CFR Policy Innovation Memorandum, Support

Process Over Policy in Pakistan; the September 2011 CFR Asia

Security Memorandum, Pakistan Contingencies and a chapter of the Random House e-book, Beyond bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror and He

served as project director of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S.

strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was co-chaired by former Deputy

Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage and former National Security Advisor

Samuel R. Berger. Dr. Markey's commentary has been featured widely, including

in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street

Journal, and Los Angeles Times. He

has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, NPR, CBS, ABC, and C-SPAN.

From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Markey held the South Asia portfolio on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to government service, he taught in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he served as executive director of Princeton's Research Program in International Security. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.


Dr. Markey earned a bachelor's degree in international studies from The Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in politics from Princeton University. He has been awarded grants from the Smith Richardson and MacArthur foundations to support his research.


This presentation, which is open to the
public and free of charge, will take place in the Montclair Kimberley Academy Upper School Library, 6 Lloyd Road, Montclair.  For more information, contact dhessler@mka.org.












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