Peter Bergen
CNN National Security Analyst and Best-Selling Author
9/11 Plus Ten
A decade after 9/11, Peter Bergen considers exactly how the attacks on New York and
Washington changed America and the world -- what the continuing legacy of 9/11 will
be in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia -- and the likely evolution of
terrorism in the next decade.
Manhunt: Inside the Relentless Search for Osama bin Laden
National security expert and speaker Peter Bergen details the manhunt for Osama bin Laden,
drawing on access to senior U.S. government and military officials as well as key political and
intelligence figures in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He covers the hunt for bin Laden over the past
decade, as well as the recent campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him and
culminated in his being killed by United States special forces in Pakistan.
The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama and
Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East
Will the values that America represents---pluralism, tolerance and democratic values--triumph in
the Muslim world, or will Osama bin Laden’s dark vision of Taliban-like regimes from Indonesia
to Morocco ultimately prevail in some Islamic countries? Will the Muslim world forge some new
accommodation between Islam and modernity represented, perhaps, by younger members of
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or the Islamists in Turkey? Will parts of the Islamic world
move to some even more secular model? Will the intervention in Libya fail? Speaker Peter
Bergen explains how all of this plays out at home in a highly polarized environment where the
issue of Islam is becoming a fault line between Democrats and Republicans.
Obama's War
Throughout his campaign President Barack Obama said repeatedly that the real central front of
the war against terrorists was on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. And now he is living up to his
campaign promise to roll back the Taliban and al-Qaeda with significant resources. The growing
skepticism about Obama’s chances for success in Afghanistan is largely based on deep
misreadings of both the country’s history and the views of its people, which are often
compounded by facile comparisons to the United States' misadventures of past decades in
Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Afghanistan will not be Obama’s Vietnam, nor will it be his
Iraq. Rather, Bergen demonstrates, how the renewed and better resourced American effort in
Afghanistan will, in time, produce a relatively stable and prosperous Central Asian state.