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

by Usama Butt, N. Elahi

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:	9780826433008
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/16/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(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

Figures and Tables vii

Contributors ix

Preface xi

Introduction Usama Butt 1

Chapter 1 Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Inspired Secular-liberal Democracy? Usama Butt 9

Chapter 2 Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Response Ishtiaq Ahmad 39

Chapter 3 The Economic Cost of Extremism Sartaj Aziz 75

Chapter 4 Insurrection, Terrorism and the Pakistan Army Brian Cloughley 93

Chapter 5 The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaeda in Pakistan? N Ilahi 123

Chapter 6 Al-Qaeda: The Threat from Tribal Pakistan Rohan Gunaratna 157

Chapter 7 Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Assets Rabia Akhtar Nazir Hussain 175

Chapter 8 The Politics of IDPs: A Fallout of Politics of Domestic and Foreign Actors Sajjad Naseer 197

Chapter 9 The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of Pakistan Julian Schofield 215

Chapter 10 "We are the soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Ideology of Terror Simon R. Valentine 233

Chapter 11 Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in Pakistan Samina Yasmeen 261

Epilogue Usama Butt 275

Glossary 281

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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