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The development of Taliban factions in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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ISBN: 0773420495 9780773420496 9780773437258 0773437258 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston [N.Y.] Edwin Mellen Press

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This work pieces together an understanding of the Afghanistan War, primarily through the principle author's knowledge and writings, secondarily through relevant books and articles by other authors. The goal is to provide a "primer" that individuals with little understanding of this region can use to educate themselves on the real issues of the War, issues that are rarely spoken about in the filtered politicized Western media. This book will be of value to young soldiers or diplomats being deployed for the first time to this region of the world.


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Role compatibility as socialization : the case of Pakistan
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ISBN: 1032158514 9781032158549 1032158549 9781032158518 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, NY: Routledge,

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"In Role Compatibility as Socialization, Dorothée Vandamme examines Pakistan's socialization process in terms of role compatibility in the 2008-2018 period. Adopting an Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) method of analysis, Vandamme builds on role theory to develop a theory of socialization as role compatibility to explain the dynamics of Pakistan's (dys)functioning position and its status-seeking process as a fully functioning member of the international system. Specifically, she focuses on how Pakistani civilian and military leaders define their country's positioning towards India, the US and China. In doing so, she traces the link between domestic role contestation at the country's inception and the resulting domination of the military's conception of their country, state identity, how it projects itself externally and how it is received by others. Departing from strictly structural or agent-oriented explanations, Vandamme expertly demonstrates Pakistan's perceived role compatibility with significant others and underlines the causality between state identity, foreign policy behavior and socialization. Role Compatibility as Socialization will be of interest to graduate students and researchers who work on and with role theory and socialization theory, and for those with a research interest on South Asia"--


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Counterinsurgency in Pakistan
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ISBN: 1282940368 9786612940361 0833049860 0833049763 9780833049865 9780833049766 Year: 2010 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND,

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Pakistan has undertaken a number of operations against militant groups since 2001. There have been some successes, but such groups as al Qa'ida continue to present a significant threat to Pakistan, the United States, and other countries. Pakistan needs to establish a population-centric counterinsurgency that better protects the local population and addresses grievances. It also needs to abandon militancy as a tool of foreign and domestic policy.

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