Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79778-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan offers an accessible yet comprehensive guide to understanding one of the most strategically located and complex countries in the world. It offers a comprehensive overview of the country and its myriad challenges.

Bringing together a group of leading international scholars on Pakistan, this second edition expands on the first by covering the country’s political, social, and economic evolution, splitting the topics into the following sections:

- Foundations and Identity

- Politics and Institutions

- Education, Gender and Climate

- Islam and Islamization

- Economy and Development

- Military and Jihad

- External Relations and Security

The handbook shows that Pakistan’s crises have only exacerbated since the publication of the first edition. It is a cutting-edge and interdisciplinary resource for those interested in studying Pakistani politics, economics, culture and society and South Asian Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pande, Aparna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Foundations and Identity  Chapter 1: A Nation Divided or a People United? Paradoxes of Pakistani Identity  Chapter 2: Jinnah's Pakistan: Debating the Nature of the State  Chapter 3: The Encounter with Modernity in the Rural and Tribal Areas of Pakistan in Pakistani English fiction  Chapter 4: The Inevitability of Cricket  Politics and Institutions  Chapter 5: State and Violence: The Dynamics of State Formation in Pakistan  Chapter 6: Over and Above the Constitution: Pakistan’s Descend from Cooperative to Militarized Federalism  Chapter 7: Talk the Talk: Why Parties Walk and Matter (Even in Pakistan)  Chapter 8: From Potemkin Democracy to Praetorian Resurgence: The Evolution of Civil-Military Dynamics in Pakistan  Chapter 9: Navigating Hybrid Governance: Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan  Chapter 10: Reeling from Elite Capture  Chapter 11: Pakistan's Patchwork of High Court Justice  Education, Gender and Climate  Chapter 12: The State’s Changing Visions of Women’s Rights in Pakistan  Chapter 13: Pakistan's Philanthropic Education Alternative  Chapter 14: From Victimhood to Action: Understanding Pakistan’s Climate Narratives  Islam and Islamization  Chapter 15: Class Struggles and Political Islam in Pakistan  Chapter 16: Pakistan's Descent into Religious Intolerance  Chapter 17: Who Supports Sectarian Terrorism in Pakistan?  Economy and Development  Chapter 18: Crises on Repeat  Chapter 19: The Pakistani Banking System: Still Standing For Now…  Chapter 20: Taxation in Pakistan: Challenges, Reforms, and the Case for a Scientific Approach  Chapter 21: From chaos to building a secure, sustainable energy future  Military and Jihad  Chapter 22: The Other Pakistan: Understanding the Military-Jihadi Complex  Chapter 23: Counterterrorism in Pakistan: Turf Wars and Strategic Miscalculations  Chapter 24: Violent Non-State Actors in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Relationship: Historical Context and Future Prospects Chapter 25: Pakistan’s Fitful Quest for Sea-Power Amidst Great Power Competition in the Indian Ocean  External Relations and Security  Chapter 26: Pakistan's Foreign Policy Since the Fall of Kabul  Chapter 27: India, Pakistan, and the Search for Peace  Chapter 28: Kashmir and the India-Pakistan Conundrum  Chapter 29: The Afghanistan-Pakistan Conundrum and Swat: A new Flower will be Born in this Pool of Blood  Chapter 30: Pakistan’s Relations with Gulf Countries  Chapter 31: Iran and Pakistan: A Case of Keeping A Distance  Chapter 32: Pakistan and the United States: Strategic Partnership, Discordant Goals  Chapter 33: The China-Pakistan Strategic Partnership

Über Autor(innen)

Aparna Pande is Director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at Boston University. Aparna Pande's books include 'Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Escaping India' (Routledge, 2010).