Pakistan's Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation

ISBN-13: 9781441144317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

Usama Butt

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The only country in Islamic world to be formed in the name of Islam and a nuclear power, Pakistan is struggling for its very existence and is at war with itself. This book analyzes Pakistan's security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation.

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Contributors
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1. Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Inspired Secular-Liberal Democracy?
Usama Butt

Chapter 2. Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Response
Ishtiaq Ahmed

Chapter 3. The Economic Cost of Extremism
Sartaj Aziz

Chapter 4. Insurrection, Terrorism, and the Pakistan Army
Brian Cloughley

Chapter 5. The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al Qaeda in Pakistan?
N Elahi

Chapter 6. Al Qaeda: The Threat from Tribal Pakistan
Rohan Gunaratna

Chapter 7. Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Assets
Rabia Akhtar and Nazir Hussain

Chapter 8. Politics of IDPs: A fall out of Politics of Domestic and Foreign Actors
Sajjad Naseer

Chapter 9. The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of Pakistan
Julian Schofield

Chapter 10.  "We are the Soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban and the Ideology of Terror
Simon R Valentine

Chapter 11. Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in Pakistan
Samina Yasmeen

Epilogue
Usama Butt

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