Contents * The Burden of History and Geography * The Starting Point: Pakistan's Place in the World * Between Pakistani and Cosmopolitan Cultures * Navigating the Pakistan Government: Military and Intelligence * Diplomat's, Civil Servants, and the Problem of Authority * Pakistan's Politicians * Negotiations at the Top * India-Pakistan Negotiations * Negotiating with Pakistan: Lessons for Americans
Teresita C. Schaffer, Senior Advisor at McLarty Associates, advises
clients on matters in India and South Asia. In a 30-year career in
the US Foreign Service, Ambassador Schaffer was recognized as one
of the State Department's leading experts on South Asia, where she
spent a total of 11 years. Her other career focus was on
international economic issues. She served in US embassies in
Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and from 1992-95 as US Ambassador
in Sri Lanka. During her assignments in the State Department in
Washington, she was Director of the Office of International Trade
and later Deputy Assistant Secretary of state for the Near East and
South Asia, at that time the Senior South Asia Policy position in
the State Department.
Ambassador Schaffer was previously a Nonresident Senior Fellow at
the Brookings Institution. She also created the South Asia program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and directed
it from 1998-2010. That program produced path-breaking research on
economic, political, security and risk management trends on India
and Pakistan, but also more broadly on the region that extends from
Afghanistan through Bangladesh.
Ambassador Schaffer is the author of India at the Global High
Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy,
published in 2016 (co-authored with her husband, Howard Schaffer);
as well as India and the US in the 21st Century: Reinventing
Partnership, published in 2009 and widely recognized as the leading
work on the post-2000 US-India relationship and its future
prospects. Ambassador Schaffer and her husband also wrote How
Pakistan Negotiates with the United States, published in 2011.
Earlier writings included Pakistan's Future and US Policy Options
(2004); India at the Crossroads: Confronting the Challenge of
HIV/AIDS (2004) and a series of other studies on HIV and public
health issues in India; and two studies on women in development in
Bangladesh (1985).
Ambassador Schaffer received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and
studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She did
graduate work in economics at Georgetown University. She speaks
Hindi, Urdu, French, Swedish, German and Italian, and has studied
Bangla and Sinhala.
Howard B. Schaffer was a retired American Foreign Service officer
who spent much of his 36-year career dealing with U.S. relations
with South Asia. He served as ambassador to Bangladesh (1984-87),
political counselor at American embassies in India (1977-79) and
Pakistan (1974-77), and was twice deputy assistant secretary of
state responsible for South Asian affairs. His earlier assignments
included stints as director of the Office of Indian, Nepalese, and
Sri Lankan Affairs and postings to New Delhi, Seoul, and Kuala
Lumpur. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1991 and returned in
1995 to Washington from Sri Lanka, where his wife, Teresita C.
Schaffer, was American ambassador. He joined ISD soon afterwards as
Deputy Director and Director of Studies. In 2009 he was given the
position of Senior Counselor of the Institute.
Ambassador Schaffer's most recent book, How Pakistan Negotiates
with the United States: Riding the Roller Coaster, co-authored with
his wife, Teresita Schaffer, was published by the United States
Institute of Peace in 2011. He is also the author of two
biographies of American diplomats: Chester Bowles: New Dealer in
the Cold War, published by the Harvard University Press in 1993,
and Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk,
published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2003. His
most recent book, The Limits of Influence: America's Role in
Kashmir, published in 2009 by the Brookings Institution Press, won
the American Academy of Diplomacy's prestigious Douglas Dillon
Prize for the best volume on the practice of diplomacy written that
year by an American author. A South Asian edition of the book has
been published by Penguin India. Schaffer has written many articles
and book chapters about South Asian issues.
Schaffer had a BA from Harvard College and had done graduate work
at Columbia and Princeton. He was an Associate and
Diplomat-in-Residence at the Institute in 1987-88 and taught
Georgetown undergraduate courses in U.S. South Asian policy and in
the practice of diplomacy abroad. He also lead ISD's weekly key
global issues seminar.
"How Pakistan Negotiates" with the United States is an impressive,
insightful and truly important book, especially for Americans who
cannot decide whether Pakistan is America s friend or foe. They
will learn that the issue is more complex and respective grievances
are more reciprocal.--Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee,
Center for Strategic and International Studies"
A fascinating account of how Pakistanis have historically used a
mix of charm, military polish, occasional deception, guilt trips,
pleas of national weakness, knowledge of Afghanistan, and
strategically advantageous geography right next to Afghanistan to
induce the United States to do more for them.Read the full review
here.
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