The Pakistan-US conundrum : jihadists, the military and the people : the struggle for control /
Yunas Samad.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- xv, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Islam and the West -- Part 1: War on Terror. A monochromatic world view -- War on Terror and Pakistan : zeroes to heroes -- Operation Enduring Freedom -- Al Qaeda : a transnational social movement -- State building in Afghanistan : past and present -- Part 2: Revenge of history. The Afghan factor -- The Afghan jihad -- Islamisation : the mullah-military alliance -- Emergence of Islamic social movements -- Part 3: Cry for freedom and Pakistan. The struggle for control -- Authoritarian rule and the democratic facade -- Managing ethnic difference -- Cutting the Gordian Knot : the India-Pakistan peace process.
9781849040105(pb)
2011034731
Pakistan--Politics and government. Pakistan--Foreign relations--United States. United States--Foreign relations--Pakistan.