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Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan and best-selling author Vali Nasr provides a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines a new relationship with the Muslim world and with new players in the changing Middle East. In this particular essential new reserve, Vali Nasr argues that the National government had an opportunity to improve its relations with the Middle East, but instead chose to go after its predecessor's doubtful strategies there. Nasr can take listeners behind the scenes at the State Department and reveals the way the new government's concern with political backlash and the specter of terrorism crippled the efforts of diplomatic giants, like Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton, to improve America's foundering credibility with world leaders. In the mean time, the true economic dangers, China and Russia, were silently expanding their effect in the region. And a second Arab Spring is making - not a hopeful clamor for democracy but trend at america for its international policy of drones and assassinations. Pulling on his in-depth understanding of the Middle East and firsthand experience in diplomacy, Nasr offers a powerful reassessment of American international policy that directs the united states from its failing connections in the centre East (such as with Saudi Arabia) toward more effective, and less costly, partnerships with other international allies (such as Turkey). Forcefully persuasive, Vali Nasr's reserve is a casino game changer for America as it graphs a course in the Muslim world, Asia, and beyond.
