Husain Haqqani

September 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Unfriending Pakistan

A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue

May 22, 2017 |

Gates to be Keynote Speaker at FDD, Hudson, Center for Cyber & Homeland Security Event

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will be the keynote speaker at an event jointly hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hudson Institute and the George Washington University...

October 21, 2014 | Clifford D. May

“Homeland” Under Attack

Are the cast, crew and fans of “Homeland” -- Showtime’s television series about a brilliant but neurotic CIA agent – Islamophobes? That’s the implication of...

September 20, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Misunderstanding 9/11

Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

January 25, 2012 | Clifford D. May

The Haqqani Test

If Pakistan fails it, there must be consequences.

June 13, 2011 | Middle East Times

Will Yousaf Raza Gilani change Pakistan?

Perhaps the most notable aspect of Yousaf Raza Gilani's conduct upon his ascension as Pakistan's new prime minister has been his lack of apparent vitriol toward President Pervez Musharr...

April 25, 2009 |

Fixing Our Pakistan Problem

This article was published in The Journal of International Security Affairs (No. 16, Spring 2009)....

April 15, 2008 |

Will Yousaf Raza Gilani change Pakistan?


Perhaps the most notable aspect of Yousaf Raza Gilani's conduct upon his ascension as Pakistan's new prime minister has been his lack of apparent vitriol toward President Pervez Musharraf.

February 22, 2006 | Clifford D. May

Don’t Blame Democracy

Democracy is getting a bum rap. President Bush's insistence on promoting democracy abroad, critics chide, has now brought Hamas, a Militant Islamist terrorist organization, to power in the W...