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Military Inc. : inside Pakistan's military economy / Ayesha Siddiqa.
Van Pelt Library JQ629.A38 C588 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siddiqa-Agha, Ayesha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military government--Pakistan.
- Military government.
- Civil-military relations--Pakistan.
- Civil-military relations.
- Pakistan--Politics and government.
- Pakistan.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The US made efforts to encourage democracy in Pakistan, its strategically in the war on terror and the third largest recipient of American aid in the world. Yet the situation never changed. Despite holding regular elections it is the army and its intelligence service that run Pakistan. Ayesha Siddiqa shows how the power of the military has transformed Pakistani society, where the armed forces have become an independent class. The military is entrenched in the corporate sector. Some of the largest business conglomerates in Pakistan are in the hands of a minority of senior army officers. Does democracy have a future? Military Inc. analyses the internal and external dynamics of this gradual power-building and its impact on Pakistan's political and economic development. This second edition is fully updated, with a new emphasis on the military's role in the media and its capture of the national narrative. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Defining Milbus 5
- Literature survey 9
- What drives Milbus? 11
- Consequences of Milbus 16
- Milbus and Pakistan 20
- Outline of the book 28
- Chapter 1 Milbus: A Theoretical Concept 35
- Civil-military relations framework 35
- A typology of civil-military relations 39
- The civil-military partnership type 41
- The authoritarian-political-military partnership type 46
- The ruler military type 49
- The arbitrator military type 54
- The parent-guardian military type 58
- The warlord type 62
- Chapter 2 The Pakistan Military: The Development of Praetorianism, 1947-77 67
- The military institution 68
- The military's primary role 72
- The military's secondary role 74
- The military in politics and governance 76
- Initiation to power, 1947-58 80
- The rise to power, 1958-71 83
- Returning to democracy, 1971-7 89
- Chapter 3 Evolution of the Military Class, 1977-2005 97
- The coercive military, 1977-88 98
- A thorny partnership, 1988-99 107
- Consolidation of power, 1999-2005 112
- Evolving into a military class 124
- Chapter 4 The Structure of Milbus 131
- The economic empire 131
- Level 1 The organization 134
- Level 2 The subsidiaries 137
- Level 3 The members 147
- Chapter 5 Milbus: The Formative Years, 1954-77 150
- Setting up the economic empire, 1954-69 150
- The era of restraint, 1969-77 157
- Chapter 6 Expansion of Milbus, 1977-2005 161
- Re-establishing financial autonomy, 1977-88 161
- Civilian-military politico-economic integration, 1988-99 176
- Consolidating the economic interests, 1999-2005 193
- Chapter 7 The New Land Barons 203
- The military and land 204; Urban land acquisition 216
- The sociology of military land 233
- Chapter 8 Providing for the Men: Military Welfare 241
- Military welfare 241
- The Fauji Foundation model 244
- The AWT model 246
- Welfare for individuals 248
- The political geography of military welfare 249
- Chapter 9 The Cost of Milbus 256
- The cost of economic inefficiency 256
- Army Welfare Trust: a financial assessment 257
- Fauji Foundation 266
- Shaheen Foundation 271
- Resource pilferage 272
- Frontier Works Organization 273
- Economic opportunity cost 274
- Chapter 10 Milbus and the Future of Pakistan 283
- Recapping Milbus 283
- Milbus in Pakistan 284
- Milbus and military professionalism 285
- The politics of Pakistan 289
- The impact of Milbus in the future 293
- Postscript to the Second Edition
- Chapter 11 From Military Government to Military Governance, 2007-16 297
- From military dominance to military hegemony 298
- Expansion of Milbus 310
- Chapter 12 From Military Inc. to Media Inc. 319
- From control to hegemonic power 319
- The image management infrastructure 328.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745399010
- 9780745399010
- OCLC:
- 942838514
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