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'''Deepak Tripathi''', PhD, FRHistS, FRAS (born 1951) is a British historian with particular reference to [[South Asia]], the [[Middle East]], the [[Cold War]] and the United States in the post-Soviet world.<ref>[http://technologysource.org/author/deepak_tripathi/ The Technology Source Archives – Deepak Tripathi]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-t.pdf |title=Royal Historical Society – Royal Historical Society Fellows |access-date=17 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614105213/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-t.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Life and career==

Tripathi was born into a political family in [[Unnao]], Uttar Pradesh, India. His grandfather, [[Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi]], was a prominent leader in [[India]]'s independence movement, Member of the Constituent Assembly, and later of the [[Indian Parliament]].<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/members.htm#UNITED%20%20PROVINCES Members of the Constituent Assembly]</ref> His father, [[Krishna Dev Tripathi]], was also a parliamentarian and an academic.<ref>[http://164.100.24.209/newls/lokprev.aspx Lok Sabha] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210185843/http://164.100.24.209/newls/lokprev.aspx |date=10 February 2008 }}</ref>

After a year at Aligarh Muslim University,<ref name="Aligarh">{{cite web |url=http://www.amualumni.8m.com/Legends.htm#Journalism |title=Journalism Legends |publisher=Alumni of Aligarh Muslim University |work=AMU Alumni – Legends of History |accessdate=24 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016100159/http://www.amualumni.8m.com/Legends.htm#Journalism |archivedate=16 October 2011}}</ref> Tripathi graduated from Christian College, [[Indore]] in 1973 with a BA in [[Political science|Politics]], Economics, [[Sociology]] and [[English studies|English]]. He then did a year of graduate study at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in New Delhi.

From 1974, Tripathi worked for the [[Voice of America]] in Washington, D.C. for 3 years.

In 1977, Tripathi worked with the [[BBC]] as a South Asia [[correspondent]], [[BBC News]] producer, and editor for the World Service Radio News. He was [[Afghanistan]] correspondent in the early 1990s in [[Kabul]]. He has reported from [[Sri Lanka]], India, [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Syria]].

In 2002, Tripathi completed a [[Postgraduate diploma|Post-Graduate Diploma]] in [[Administration of business|Business Administration]] from [[Edinburgh Business School]] of [[Heriot-Watt University]], Scotland.

From 2002, at the University of Sussex, Tripathi researched the [[Cold War]] Afghan conflict. This led to his well-received book on Afghanistan.<ref>Hillstrom, David (2011) Review of 'Breeding Ground' by Deepak Tripathi, '' Foreign Policy Journal'', 4 March</ref><ref>[http://www.palestinechronicle.com/old/view_article_details.php?id=16542 Moore, Chris(2011) Review of 'Breeding Ground' by Deepak Tripathi, ''Palestine Chronicle'', 01/11/2011 (Accessed Nov 2011)]</ref>

In 2012, Tripathi received his [[Doctorate]] in social science from the University of Roehampton, where he was an Honorary Fellow at the Crucible Centre for Human Rights Research from 2012 to 2015, and later an associate.<ref>[https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/research-centres/crucible-centre-for-human-rights-research/ Crucible Centre for Human Rights Research]</ref> He wrote his dissertation "A Critical Study of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars" under the supervision of Professor [[Martin Shaw (sociologist)]], known for his work on war, genocide and global politics.

In 2013, Tripathi was elected a [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Historical Society]], and a [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland]].

Tripathi writes on the effects of superpower rivalries in South Asia and the Middle East, and on U.S. policy in the region, for publications including [[Al Jazeera]], [[Al-Ahram]], [[History News Network]], [[CounterPunch]], [[AlterNet]], and [[ZNet]].<ref>[http://deepaktripathi.wordpress.com/ Reflections]</ref>

==Reception of his work==

Tripathi has received praise from various reviewers<ref name=Cohn /><ref name="FPJ" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16542 | title=Palestine Chronicle | publisher=palestinechronicle.com | work=Breeding Ground – Book Review | accessdate=25 November 2011 | author=Moore, Chris}}</ref><ref name=Schoppa>[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/03/tomorrows_titles_2.html Schoppa, Christopher (2010) Review of Tripathi, D. (2010). Overcoming the Bush legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, ''The Washington Post'', 17 March (Accessed Nov 2011)]</ref><ref name=Cude>[https://antigonishreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=311:issue-165&catid=11&Itemid=285 Cude, Wilf (2011) Insider and Outsider: Converging Views on Iraq and Afghanistan, ''The Antigonish Review'',#165 Wednesday, 25 May 2011 (Accessed Sep 2019)]</ref><ref name=Morris>[http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2013/0912/bk/book10_morris_imperial.html Morris, Greta (2013) Imperial Designs, ''American Diplomacy'', October 2013 (Accessed Dec 2013)]</ref> for his writings on world conflicts, such as in Afghanistan, notably for his trilogy of books ''Breeding Ground'', ''Overcoming The Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan'' and ''Imperial Designs''.

===''Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan''===

Christopher Schoppa, in his review for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' of 'Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan', writes that "Tripathi has a sound grounding in the politics and myriad cultures that make up the Middle East." But this book is "not for the conservative, Bush-ie camp." It takes a "thoughtful look at the legacy of two increasingly unpopular wars, focusing especially on the human toll." The reviewer concludes: "Whatever your leanings on this subject, one of Tripathi's statements that seems irrefutable is that these wars will forever be linked with the name of our 43rd President, George W. Bush. For better or worse."<ref>Christopher Schoppa: Review of Deepak Tripathi, "Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2010) [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/03/tomorrows_titles_2.html Washington Post].</ref>

===''Breeding Ground''===

Marjorie Cohn, in the [[History News Network]], writes of ''Breeding Ground'': "Tripathi's excellent work ends with a call to replace the military strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan with development, reconciliation, and reconstruction." and "Breeding Ground makes a significant contribution toward understanding the origins and triggers of terrorism. Tripathi traces the development of a 'culture of violence' in Afghanistan—largely due to resistance against foreign invasion—from the "U.S.-led proxy war" against the USSR to the current U.S. war."<ref name=Cohn>Marjorie Cohn: Review of Deepak Tripathi, "Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2011) [http://hnn.us/node/141328 George Mason University's History News Network]. Retrieved 15 November 2011</ref>

David Hillstrom, in the Foreign Policy Journal, describes ''Breeding Ground'' as a "concise yet powerful book" which details the dangerously interlocking decisions and ill-thought-through strategies that inflamed the Afghan conflict.<ref name="FPJ">{{cite web | url=http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/03/04/review-of-breeding-ground-by-deepak-tripathi/ | title=Foreign Policy Journal | publisher=Foreign Policy Journal | work=Review of 'Breeding Ground' by Deepak Tripathi | date=4 March 2011 | accessdate=24 November 2011 | author=Hillstrom, David}}</ref> According to Hillstrom, Tripathi used a broad array of sources that only recently became available from both US and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] archives. He writes that the tragedy is that Afghanistan, which has now been at war for 40 years, has suffered the same before, from the '[[Great Game]]' that the [[Russian Empire]] played with the [[British Empire]] in the 19th century; the players then as now had "simplistic strategic goals" but only "a shallow understanding" of Afghanistan itself. Hillstrom finds that Tripathi sums up the tragedy beautifully by closing his book with a quote from [[Tolstoy]]:<ref name="FPJ" />

: "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious, even when successful."<ref name="FPJ" />

===''Imperial Designs''===

Greta Morris, a retired US diplomat, writes in her review of ''Imperial Designs'' in American Diplomacy: "As policymakers, scholars and citizens seek to understand the increasingly bitter and violent conflicts in the Middle East and the escalating anger and terrorist acts against the West (particularly the U.S.), Deepak Tripathi's ''Imperial Designs'' offers important perspectives and insights. Tripathi's book is subtitled ''War, Humiliation and the Making of History'', and his theme is the role of humiliation in international politics. Specifically, he argues that the humiliation of a state or people by a more powerful state (or states) through political manipulation and military defeat profoundly influences the subsequent actions of the humiliated people, including their desire for revenge." Morris concludes the review with her comment: "Tripathi's excellent summation of past events in the Middle East and his cogent analysis of their continuing implications should be required reading for all who are dealing directly with this troubled region, as well as those seeking to understand it and its relations with the United States."<ref>Morris. [http://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2013/10/imperial-designs/ American Diplomacy (Accessed Dec 2013)]</ref>

==Books==
* Tripathi, D., & [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]]. (1989). ''Sri Lanka's Foreign Policy Dilemmas''. London: [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]].
* Tripathi, D., & [[Observer Research Foundation]]. (2008). ''Dialectics of the Afghanistan Conflict''. New Delhi: [[Observer Research Foundation]].
* Tripathi, D. (2010). ''Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan''. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.
* {{cite book |author1= Tripathi, Deepak |others= Foreword by [[Richard Falk]] | title = Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDf8p060_JgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781597975308#v=onepage | publisher = [[Potomac Books]], Inc | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-1-59797-530-8 | ref = CITEREFTripathiFalk2010 }}
* Tripathi, D. (2013). ''Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History''. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.
* Tripathi, D. (2013). ''A Journey Through Turbulence: Writings of Deepak Tripathi''. Lake Oswego, OR: [[Dignity Press]].

==Interviews==

* [[Frontline Club]], Public Debate: "Inside Al-Qaeda", 5 January 2011.
* [[This Is Hell (radio program)]], Interview: "About History's Revenge: War, Humiliation and the Making of History", [[WNUR-FM]] in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston, Chicago]], 23 June 2012.
* [[This Is Hell (radio program)]], Interview: "About American exceptionalism", [[WNUR-FM]] in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston, Chicago]], 28 September 2013.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614105213/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-t.pdf Royal Historical Society]
* [https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/research-centres/crucible-centre-for-human-rights-research/ Crucible Centre for Human Rights Research]
* [http://thisishell.net/tag/deepak-tripathi/#.TsKtlFYg5VI ThisIsHell.net Podcast]
* [http://deepaktripathi.wordpress.com/ Deepak Tripathi's Diary 'Reflections']
* [https://zcomm.org/?s=Deepak+Tripathi&post_type%5B%5D=znetarticle&post_type%5B%5D=zmagarticle&post_type%5B%5D=zcommentary&post_type%5B%5D=blogpost&post_type%5B%5D=video&post_type%5B%5D=audio&post_type%5B%5D=book&post_type%5B%5D=bookreview&post_type%5B%5D=graphic&post_type%5B%5D=lyric&post_type%5B%5D=poem ZNet: Deepak Tripathi's Commentaries]

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