Zone of Crisis
Subtitle: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857723956; 9781306974455; 9780857735126; 9781780763194
Subjects: Politics and government; 21st century history: from c 2000 -.; General; HISTORY; Central Asia
Description: The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation, neo-fundamentalism and pluralism, they embody a mosaic of ethnicities. Amin Saikal, a distinguished Afghan-born scholar of international affairs, provides a sweeping new understanding of the complex contemporary political and social instability encompassing the region. Critically comparing democratisa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Afghanistan : turbulent and on the brink; title: Pakistan : fragile and violent; title: Iran : between 'sovereignty of God' and 'sovereignty of the people'; title: Iraq : divided and threatened; title: Conclusion.