Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq Contributor(s): Saikal, Amin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780763190 ISBN-13: 9781780763194 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $57.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General - History | Asia - General |
Dewey: 950.42 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. Saikal takes the reader on a journey throughout the history and current affairs of the four countries, highlighting how these states have been repeatedly invaded by major powers such as Tsarist and Soviet Russia, Great Britain and the United States. With each seeking, often in competition with one another, to redirect the domestic and foreign policy objectives and priorities of this region in accordance with their individual geopolitical and ideological preferences, the region finds itself today in a state of crisis. |