Title: Zone of Crisis
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, 21st century history: from c 2000 -., General, HISTORY, Central Asia, Political stability, Political science, Current affairs, History of the middle east, International relations, Bombing, aerial, Civil defense, europe, Air defenses, Air warfare, Aeronautics, history, Air power, Great britain, history, military, Great britain, social conditions
Places: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Asia, Pakistan