The Architecture of Allegiance

How American Scholarship Networks, Pentagon Funding, and Elite Pipelines Absorbed Pakistan’s Ruling Class and Ended Its Foreign Policy

Pakistan has no foreign policy. It has a class.

That class sends its children to Georgetown, to the LSE, to Sciences Po and Columbia and the Kennedy School. It summers in Dubai and winters in London. It reads the Financial Times and watches CNN. It staffs the finance ministry and the foreign office, the editorial boards and the central bank, the federal …