Issues and Realities of Pakistani Politics
Author : Anwar Hussain Syed
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Pakistan
ISBN :
The Idea of Pakistan
Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2004-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815797616
Book Description
In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player on the world stage—both as a potential rogue state armed with nuclear weapons and as an American ally in the war against terrorism. But our understanding of this country is superficial. To probe beyond the headlines, Stephen Cohen, author of the prize-winning India: Emerging Power, offers a panoramic portrait of this complex country—from its origins as a homeland for Indian Muslims to a militarydominated state that has experienced uneven economic growth, political chaos, sectarian violence, and several nuclear crises with its much larger neighbor, India. Pakistan's future is uncertain. Can it fulfill its promise of joining the community of nations as a moderate Islamic state, at peace with its neighbors, or could it dissolve completely into a failed state, spewing out terrorists and nuclear weapons in several directions? The Idea of Pakistan will be an essential tool for understanding this critically important country.
The Army and Democracy
Author : Aqil Shah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0674728939
Book Description
In sharp contrast to neighboring India, the Muslim nation of Pakistan has been ruled by its military for over three decades. The Army and Democracy identifies steps for reforming Pakistan’s armed forces and reducing its interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian control.
New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy
Author : Matthew McCartney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110876309X
Book Description
This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian–military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.
The Struggle for Pakistan
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0674744993
Book Description
Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Issues in Pakistan
Author : Benazir Bhutto
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Pakistan
ISBN :
Book Description
Selected speeches delivered in the National Assembly as leader of the opposition, 1990-1993.
Between Dreams and Realities
Author : Sartaj Aziz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190702588
Book Description
This book attempts to demonstrate that only a genuine democratic dispensation can ensure its survival as a viable federation. Sartaj Aziz argues that the vitality of a nation comes primarily from the value system, cultural heritage, and social energy of its people.
Rethinking Political Islam
Author : Shadi Hamid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190649208
Book Description
Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.
Pakistan's Drift into Extremism
Author : Hassan Abbas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317463285
Book Description
This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with an historical overview of the introduction of Islam to the Indian sub-continent in 712 AD, and brings the story up to the present by describing President Musharraf's handling of the war on terror. He provides a detailed account of the political developments in Pakistan since 1947 with a focus on the influence of religious and military forces. He also discusses regional politics, Pakistan's attempt to gain nuclear power status, and U.S.-Pakistan relations, and offers predictions for Pakistan's domestic and regional prospects.
International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Author : Sikander Ahmed Shah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1134074271
Book Description
While conventional warfare has an established body of legal precedence, the legality of drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan and elsewhere remains ambiguous. This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. Drawing from international treaty law, customary international law, and statistical data on the impact of the strikes, Sikander Ahmed Shah asks whether drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan are in compliance with international humanitarian law. The book questions how international law views the giving of consent between States for military action, and explores what this means for the interaction between sovereignty and consent. The book goes on to look at the socio-political realities of drone strikes in Pakistan, scrutinizing the impact of drone strikes on both Pakistani politics and US-Pakistan relationships. Topics include the Pakistan army-government relationship, the evolution of international institutions as a result of drone strikes, and the geopolitical dynamics affecting the region. As a detailed and critical examination of the legal and political challenges presented by drone strikes, this book will be essential to scholars and students of the law of armed conflict, security studies, political science and international relations.
