Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815729456 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her work focuses on the intersection between development, politics, and security in Pakistan.. Madiha Afzal is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution
About the AuthorMadiha Afzal is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her work focuses on the intersection between development, politics, and security in Pakistan.
What explains the continued growth of extremism in Pakistan? This question is of more than academic interest, given the ongoing militant actions in that country as well as in Afghanistan, India and elsewhere of extremist groups based in Pakistan. How the state, education, society, and religion interlock and interact to create an environment in which jihadism thrives in Pakistan. These include the role of the government and politics, especially the state's relationship with Islamist parties and militant groups; social structures and the country's ever-present conspiracy theories; religion; the loud and unruly media environment; the geopolitics of South Asia; and Pakistan's unique and tortured birth.Pakistan certainly is not the only country where jihadist extremism has emerged and Afzal draws out the lessons from Pakistan's experience that contribute to an understanding of the roots of extremist attitudes and violent extremism globally.. Madiha Afzal has dug into the question with in-depth field research, rigorous analysis of survey d