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Title

Afghanistan, Pakistan and strategic change : adjusting western regional policy / edited by Joachim Krause and Charles King Mallory, IV.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Krause, Joachim, 1951-
• Mallory, Charles K.

Description

x, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book analyses the nature of the current strategic changes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af/Pak) region. The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. As the international Afghanistan conferences have demonstrated, the international community - which is a US-led coalition of the willing - will withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. This withdrawal of troops, as well as the offer of economic aid and negotiations to the Taliban, aims to transfer the responsibility of the future of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves and to their regional neighbours. This edited volume analyses the nature of this strategic change in order to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. Bringing together contributions from leading academics in the field, the book is centred around three key questions: what has gone wrong in the past with regard to Afghanistan and what strategic adjustments are needed? Is Pakistan a strategic ally of the West, or has Pakistan become a strategic problem? What are the possible future scenarios and policy options and what does strategic readjustment really mean? This book will be of much interest to students of Central and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and security studies generally"--

Series Statement

Asian security studies

Uniform Title

Asian security studies.

Subject

• Strategic culture > Afghanistan
• Strategic culture > Pakistan
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Peace
• Peace-building > Afghanistan
• Nation-building > Afghanistan
• Afghanistan > Strategic aspects
• Pakistan > Strategic aspects
• Afghanistan > Foreign relations > Western countries
• Western countries > Foreign relations > Afghanistan
• Pakistan > Foreign relations > Western countries
• Western countries > Foreign relations > Pakistan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Adjusting western strategy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan / Joachim Krause and Charles King Mallory, IV -- Not too little, but too late : ISAF's strategic restart of 2010 in light of the coalition's previous mistakes / Robin Schroeder -- Prospects for transition in Afghanistan / Anthony Cordesman ; with the assistance of Ashley Hess -- Launching an Afghan peace process / James Dobbins -- Afghanistan between democratization and civil war : post-2014 scenarios / Thomas Ruttig -- Militant Islam in South Asia : past trajectories and present implications / Ryan Brasher and Sumit Ganguly -- U.S.-Pakistan relations : ten years after 9/11 / C. Christine Fair -- Transition in the Afghanistan-Pakistan War and the uncertain role of the great powers / Anthony Cordesman ; with the assistance of Ashley Hess -- The NATO drawdown : implications for Afghanistan and Pakistan / Keith Crane and Victoria Greenfield -- Internal and regional preconditions and assumptions for peace in Afghanistan / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh.

Call Number

JFE 14-2753

ISBN

• 9780415856560 (hardback)
• 0415856566 (hardback)
• 9781315889733 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013021806

OCLC

839397134

Title

Afghanistan, Pakistan and strategic change : adjusting western regional policy / edited by Joachim Krause and Charles King Mallory, IV.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asian security studies

Asian security studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Krause, Joachim, 1951- author, editor.

Mallory, Charles K., author, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2753