Fair Argues Pakistan is “an Army with a Country”

In a public lecture at the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) on March 27, C. Christine Fair discussed key findings from her recent book, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War. Fair argued that Pakistan is an ideological state rather than one which is motivated primarily by security concerns. She argued that this distinction has several policy implications for Pakistan's preferred policies and approaches to prosecute them and for major foreign actors like the United States, which seeks to influence Pakistan's behaviors.

Read the full article on the CCNR website here.

Watch a short interview with Fair below.

Watch the full lecture below.