Pakistan's Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation

by Usama Butt (Editor), N. Elahi (Editor)

Overview

International experts analyze Pakistan’s security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441144317
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/16/2010
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Usama Butt is a political and security researcher/analyst based in the UK. An op-ed columnist at Khaleej times, he has written for many other newspapers &blogs in the UK, Middle East and Pakistan. His specialties lie in global Islamist movements and Middle Eastern/South Asian region. N. Elahi is a doctoral candidate at the War Studies Department of King's College London. He also holds a Masters Degree in Intelligence and International Security from King's College London.

Table of Contents

ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Inspired Secular-Liberal Democracy? Usama ButtChapter 2. Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism ResponseIshtiaq AhmedChapter 3. The Economic Cost of ExtremismSartaj AzizChapter 4. Insurrection, Terrorism, and the Pakistan ArmyBrian CloughleyChapter 5. The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al Qaeda in Pakistan? N ElahiChapter 6. Al Qaeda: The Threat from Tribal PakistanRohan GunaratnaChapter 7. Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear AssetsRabia Akhtar and Nazir Hussain Chapter 8. Politics of IDPs: A fall out of Politics of Domestic and Foreign ActorsSajjad Naseer Chapter 9. The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of PakistanJulian SchofieldChapter 10. "We are the Soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban and the Ideology of TerrorSimon R ValentineChapter 11. Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in PakistanSamina YasmeenEpilogueUsama ButtGlossary

Editorial Reviews

"Pakistan's Quagmire encapsulates Pakistan's current problems and their genesis. It offers a detailed read on issues that occupy considerable space even outside Pakistan such as the army's omni-present role, the Islamists, the existential threat at the hands of al Qaeda and Tehrike Taliban Pakistan, and also puts fears of an Islamist or military re-takeover in a realistic perspective. It is a useful guide and analysis on the present day Pakistan for those interested in this turbulent region." --Imtiaz Gul, author of The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier

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