Pakistan: A Hard Country

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PublicAffairs, 2011 - Political Science - 558 pages
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An expert's compelling portrait of the complex, volatile country now situated at the fulcrum of international concerns

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Reading this book must be eaqual to attending to a scholarship in asian studies - how to understand a non-european world. The corruption, the weak state, the river, the feudal and personal power, the ... Read full review

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I wonder if the author is indeed a native masquerading under the guise of an anglicized name a la headley. He is really bending over backwards to paint this flattering picture of a soon to be failed ... Read full review

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About the author (2011)

Following his career as a Moscow-based correspondent for "The Times" of London, Anatol Lieven was a fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1996. He was also a correspondent in Central Europe for the "Financial Times", and is now editor of "Strategic Comments" and expert on post-Soviet affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Lieven is the author of "Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power" and the prize-winning "The Baltic Revolution".

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TitlePakistan: A Hard Country
AuthorAnatol Lieven
PublisherPublicAffairs, 2011
ISBN1610390237, 9781610390231
Length558 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Asia / India & South Asia
Political Science / World / Asian
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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