Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State

Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State

Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State

Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State

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Overview

Seen through the lens of the outsider, Pakistan has often been reduced to a caricature. Its diversity and resilience have rarely figured in the single-issue focus of recent literature on the country, be it journalistic or scholarly. This book seeks to present an alternate paradigm and to contribute a deeper understanding of the country's dynamics that may help explain why Pakistan has confounded all the doomsday scenarios. It brings together an extra-ordinary array of leading experts, including Ahmed Rashid, Ayesha Jalal and Zahid Hussain, and practitioners, such as the book's editor, Maleeha Lodhi, Akbar Ahmed and Munir Akram. Together they debate their country's strengths and weaknesses and offer ways out of its current predicament.

This book provides a picture of how Pakistanis see themselves and their country's faultlines and spells out ways to overcome these. Pakistan's political, economic, social, foreign policy and governance challenges are assessed in detail. So too is the complex interplay between domestic developments and external factors including great power interests that are so central to the Pakistan story and explain the vicissitudes in its fortunes. Lodhi and her contributors contend that Pakistan and its people have the capacity to transform their country into a stable, modern Muslim state, but bold reforms will be needed to bring about this outcome.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199327430
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/09/2012
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Maleeha Lodhi has twice served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States as well as to the United Kingdom. She has been editor of two of Pakistan's leading daily newspapers, The News and The Muslim. She served on the UN Secretary General's advisory board on disarmament, taught at the London School of Economics and has been a fellow at Harvard University and at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center. In 1994, Time magazine named her as one of 100 people who will help define the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Maleeha Lodhi


The Past as Present
Ayesha Jalal


Why Jinnah Matters
Akbar Ahmed


Why Pakistan Will Survive
Mohsin Hamid


Beyond the Crisis State
Maleeha Lodhi


Army and Politics
Shuja Nawaz


Praetorians and the People
Saeed Shafqat


Ideologically Adrift
Ziad Haider


Battling Militancy
Zahid Hussain


Retooling Institutions
Ishrat Husain


An economic crisis state?
Meekal Ahmed


Boosting Competitiveness
Muddassar Mazhar Malik


Turning Energy Around
Ziad Alahdad


Education as a Strategic Imperative
Shanza Khan and Moeed Yusuf


Pakistan as a Nuclear State
Feroz Hassan Khan


Reversing Strategic "Shrinkage"
Munir Akram


The Afghan Conundrum
Ahmed Rashid


The India Factor
Syed Rifaat Hussain


Concluding Note
Maleeha Lodhi
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