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

ISBN-13: 9780415728256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Ashutosh Kumar Misra; Michael E. Clarke

Opis

Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of the United States in the global 'war on terror' but is also regarded as a major bastion of some of the most active jihadist organisations. This book highlights and explores the paradoxes that characterise contemporary Pakistan from the simultaneous democratization and Islamization of civil society to the schizophrenic US-Pakistan relationship. The central theme of the book looks at Pakistan's stability paradox. Commentators and analysts have over recent years often suggested that Pakistan was on the verge of state 'failure' or collapse resulting from a myriad of dilemmas. Yet, remarkably the Pakistani state has proven to be more resilient. This book identifies not only the factors that are contributing to Pakistan's perceived instability but also those factors that have contributed to the state's resilience. Chapters explore this central paradox through three core dimensions of Pakistan's contemporary dilemmas - the domestic, regional and international dimensions.

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).