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L’Afghanistan sous les talibans 2.0: Implications géostratégiques et géoéconomiques

Lt General (R) Naeem Khalid Lodhi was commissioned in the Army on 27 October, 1974.

He is a graduate of Command and Staff College, Quetta and National Defence University, Islamabad. He also holds a Masters degree in International Relations.

He has served on various command, staff and instructional assignments in the course of his career including important roles of Directing Staff at National Defense University Islamabad, Commander Corps Engineers, Director General, Engineering Directorate and Director General, Staff Duties Directorate at GHQ Rawalpindi. He has also served as Corps Commander Bahawalpur.

On account of his distinguished military service, he has been conferred with the award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz Military. After retirement, he has served as Defense Secretary, and Minister of Defense in the last care-taker government of Pakistan.

Sumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington.

He is a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, a Guest Scholar at the Center for Cooperative Monitoring in Albuquerque and a Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for International and Area Studies in Hamburg.

He has also held the Asia Chair at Sciences Po in Paris, and the Ngee Ann Chair in International Politics at the Rajaratnam School for International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 20 books on the contemporary politics of South Asia.