Pakistan's Stability Paradox : Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9780415619486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 217 str.

Michael Clarke; Ashutosh Kumar Misra

Opis

This volume highlights and explores the paradoxes that characterise contemporary Pakistan from the simultaneous democratisation and Islamisation of civil society to the schizophrenic US-Pakistan relationship. The central theme of the book looks at Pakistan's stability paradox.

Spis treści

Part 1: Domestic Dimensions  1. Understanding the Unstable Nature of Pakistan’s Triadic Politics  2. Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan: Constitutional and Political Challenges and the Role of the Judiciary  3. What are they teaching them at Schools Nowadays? Understanding Pakistan’s Social Revolution and Seminary Education  4. Women, Media, Equity and Equality: The Pakistani Context  5. The Militants’ Landscape: Pakistan’s Islamist Organizations and Their Impact on the Body Politic  Part 2: Regional Dimensions  6. The India-Pakistan Peace Process  7. The State of Jihadi Organisations in Pakistan and Their Regional and International Linkages  8. Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations  9. The Evolution of the Pakistani Taliban  Part 3: International Dimensions  10. Pakistan-US Relations: An Inconvenient Partnership of Convenience  11. Testing China’s Rise: China-Pakistan Relations  12. Pakistan and the ‘Four Faces’ of Nuclear Terrorism: A Preliminary Assessment

O autorze

Ashutosh Misra is Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at Griffith University. He is the author of India-Pakistan: Coming to Terms, and Pakistan: Engagement of the Extremes. Michael Clarke is an ARC Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. His most recent publication is Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia, 1949-2009: A History (Routledge 2011).