Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Failed State: Ethnic Conflicts and Sectarianism 1. The Punjabization of Pakistan: Myth or Reality - Ian Talbot 2. The Mohajir Issue - Yunas Samad 3. The New Religious Groups - Saeed Sahfqat 4. Islam, the State and the Rise of Sectarian Militancy - S.V.R. Nasr 5. Interpreting Ethnic Movements in Pakistan - Christophe Jaffrelot Part II: At the Crossroads of Regional Tensions 6. The Indian Syndrome: Between Kashmir and the Nuclear Predicament - Jean-Luc Racine 7. The Islamic Dimension of the Kashmir Insurgency - Sumit Ganguly 8. The Regional Dimension of Sectarian Conflicts in Pakistan - Mariam Abou Zahab 9. Pakistan and the Taleban - Olivier Roy 10. The Taleban Factor in Regional Politics - Gilles Dorronsoro 11. The Geopolitics of Pakistan's Energy Supply - Frederic Grare Part III: State Without a Foreign Policy? 12. The Dialectic between Domestic and Foreign Policy - Mohammed Waseem 13. The 'Multivocal' State: The Kashmir Politics of Pakistan - Amelie Blom 14. Does the Army Shape Pakistan's Foreign Policy? - Ian Talbot 15. Conclusion: And Yet It Exists - Pierre Lafrance

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An exploration of Pakistan's ethnic tensions and its position within the wider region.

About the Author

CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT is deputy director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. He teaches South Asian politics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and is the editor-in-chief of Critique Internationale. The CONTRIBUTORS are Pakistani, Indian, British and French scholars.

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Thoughtful essays on the problems that Pakistan has had in achieving a coherent national identity and becoming a stable nation.
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