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Pakistan's quagmire : security, strategy, and the future of the Islamic-nuclear nation / edited by Usama Butt and by N. Elahi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Pakistan.
- National security.
- Nuclear weapons--Pakistan.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Islam and politics--Pakistan.
- Islam and politics.
- Pakistan--Politics and government--1999-.
- Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, c2010.
- Summary:
- In this title, international experts analyze Pakistan's security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation. The only country in Islamic world to be formed in the name of Islam and a nuclear power, Pakistan today is struggling for its very existence and is at war with itself. ""Pakistan's Quagmire"" focuses on the insurgency in Pakistan, a security problem not only for the country, but also for the region and the rest of the world. To foster a thorough understanding of the many aspects of the issue, the book looks at both theoretical and pra
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Secular-liberal Inspired Democracy; Chapter Two: Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Response; Chapter Three: The Economic Cost of Extremism; Chapter Four: Insurrection, Terrorism and the Pakistan Army; Chapter Five: The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaeda in Pakistan?; Chapter Six: Al-Qaeda: The Threat from Tribal Pakistan; Chapter Seven: Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Assets
- Chapter Eight: The Politics of IDPs: A Fallout of Politics of Domestic and Foreign ActorsChapter Nine: The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of Pakistan; Chapter Ten: "We are the soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Ideology of Terror; Chapter Eleven: Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in Pakistan; Epilogue; Glossary
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613272294
- 9781283272292
- 1283272296
- 9781441191748
- 1441191747
- OCLC:
- 741691242
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