John
Echeverri-Gent, associate chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government
and Foreign Affairs at the University
of Virginia, talks about Pakistan, the country’s role in the
war against terrorism and its critical relationship with Afghanistan and
India.
Echeverri-Gent, a Fulbright Scholar, received the 1993 Theodore J. Lowi
Award from the Policy Studies Organization for the best article in the
Policy Studies Journal in 1992. He served as the associate director
for the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia from
1990-1991, and was a visiting fellow with the Overseas Development Council
in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The State and the Poor: Public
Policy and Political Development in India and the United States.