Sunil Dasgupta, director of UMBC’s political science program at the Universities of Shady Grove, recently published an article in International Relations and Security Network (ISN) Digital Library News about the impact of foreign aid on curtailing extremist violence in Pakistan. In his article, Dasgupta outlined how Pakistan has been at the center of several international security concerns for years, is a source of Islamist extremism and violence, and possesses nuclear weapons. “Those invested in transforming Pakistan—the United States and the Western world in general, overseas and liberal Pakistanis—have concluded from these facts that the solution in Pakistan lies in strengthening the state …