Pakistan Enigma Pol Dev/H: The Enigma of Political Development

ISBN-13: 9780367282165 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Lawrence Ziring

Opis

This volume was conceived to serve a variety of reader categories. It should meet the needs of teachers and students engaged in the study of Pakistan; it is hoped that it will offer area specialists an enlarged perspective from which to examine their own findings; and it ought to prove useful to the general reader who wishes to keep abreast of the forces and events shaping our time. Every effort has been made to define the essential themes, to provide the pertinent data, to analyze the significant events thoroughly, and to present the material in a lucid, fast-moving manner. Overall the book should be both informative and provocative. Given my long association with Pakistan,the many years spent investigating and experiencing its development, the unique opportunities I have enjoyed for personal contact with the country's passing leadership as well as its diverse population, I have taken liberties which less-involved scholars would no doubt avoid. I make no apologies for this somewhat personalized approach, or for the pointed comments that will be found throughout the volume. The Pakistan story does not lend itself to sterile description. It is an exciting and important chronicle and it ought to be presented in a fashion that stimulates debate in addition to making available the necessary facts. I trust I have succeeded in fulfilling both objectives.

Spis treści

Preface -- Foreword by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson -- 1. The Muslim Legacy in South Asia -- 2. Nationalism, Ideology, and the Islamic State -- 3. The Creators and Early Managers of Pakistan -- 4. The Civil and Armed Bureaucrats -- 5. Political Movements and Political Parties -- 6. The Submerged Nations: the Politics of Ethnicity and Tribalism -- 7. Incipient Constitutionalism -- 8. The Myth of Nation-Building -- 9. The Foreign Policy Dimension -- 10. The Future of Pakistan -- Notes to the Text -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

O autorze

Lawrence Ziring is Arnold E. Schneider Professor of Political Science at West Michigan University, USA. He is the author of Pakistan in the Twentieth Century: A Political History (OUP, 2000), along with numerous other titles, and nearly one hundred articles or papers. He has lectured around the world and advised on strategic and defence issues for a wide range of institutions in the US and elsewhere.