Pakistan:The Search for Stability

by: Maleeha Lodhi (Author)

Publisher: Hurst

Publication Date: 2024/8/15

Language: English

Print Length: 472 pages

ISBN-10: 1911723774

ISBN-13: 9781911723776

Book Description

Pakistan is facing a multitude of critical challenges, a 'Polycrisis' arising in many areas at once-- political, constitutional, economic, security- related, geo-political, demographic and ecological. These systemic predicaments are the cumulative consequence of decades of poor goveance and squandered opportunities, whose convergence now creates a formidable existential threat. Maleeha Lodhi holds that Pakistan's govemental leaders, both civilian and military, have failed to take a long view and to outline a vision for the country. They have spent much of their time in power operating in crisis management or power preservation modes, postponing meaningful reform and looking for expedient short-term 'solutions'. The consequences of those sins of omission and commission are now coming together. In this new volume, Lodhi has brought together eighteen chapters by experts in a variety of fields, including Murtaza Syed, Zahid Hussain, Riaz Mohammad Khan and Adil Najam, to analyze Pakistan's various grand challenges and to suggest prognoses. This important compilation of rigorous, compelling essays will be essential reading for those who seek to understand what is at stake for Pakistan, both in terms of present-day crises and in terms of future trends.

About the Author

Pakistan is facing a multitude of critical challenges, a 'Polycrisis' arising in many areas at once-- political, constitutional, economic, security- related, geo-political, demographic and ecological. These systemic predicaments are the cumulative consequence of decades of poor goveance and squandered opportunities, whose convergence now creates a formidable existential threat. Maleeha Lodhi holds that Pakistan's govemental leaders, both civilian and military, have failed to take a long view and to outline a vision for the country. They have spent much of their time in power operating in crisis management or power preservation modes, postponing meaningful reform and looking for expedient short-term 'solutions'. The consequences of those sins of omission and commission are now coming together. In this new volume, Lodhi has brought together eighteen chapters by experts in a variety of fields, including Murtaza Syed, Zahid Hussain, Riaz Mohammad Khan and Adil Najam, to analyze Pakistan's various grand challenges and to suggest prognoses. This important compilation of rigorous, compelling essays will be essential reading for those who seek to understand what is at stake for Pakistan, both in terms of present-day crises and in terms of future trends.