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Brookings Institution Press
August 2006
On Sale: August 1, 2006
382 pages
ISBN: 081571503X
EAN: 9780815715030
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Non-Fiction
In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player
on the world stage—both as a potential rogue state armed
with nuclear weapons and as an American ally in the war
against terrorism. But our understanding of this country is
superficial. To probe beyond the headlines, Stephen Cohen, author of the
prize-winning India: Emerging Power, offers a panoramic
portrait of this complex country—from its origins as a
homeland for Indian Muslims to a military-dominated state
that has experienced uneven economic growth, political
chaos, sectarian violence, and several nuclear crises with
its much larger neighbor, India. Pakistan’s future is uncertain. Can it fulfill its promise
of joining the community of nations as a moderate Islamic
state, at peace with its neighbors, or could it dissolve
completely into a failed state, spewing out terrorists and
nuclear weapons in several directions? The Idea of Pakistan
will be an essential tool for understanding this critically
important country.
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