Pakistan's quagmire : security, strategy, and the future of the Islamic-nuclear nation

Pakistan's quagmire : security, strategy, and the future of the Islamic-nuclear nation / edited by Usama Butt and by N. Elahi.

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 ex...

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Other Authors: Butt, Usama, Elahi, N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Subjects:
Since 1988
National security > Pakistan.
Nuclear weapons > Pakistan.
Islam and politics > Pakistan.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Islam and politics
National security
Nuclear weapons
Politics and government
Pakistan > Politics and government > 1988-
Pakistan
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Table of 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.

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