ABSTRACT

The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. This book analyses the nature of this strategic change, in ordre to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. It also undertakes a critical review of the basic elements of the Western strategic approach towards dealing with regional conflicts in all parts of the world, with special emphasis on the Af/Pak region.
Dealing with the political developments i one of the most volatile regions in the world – Afghanistan and Pakistan – the volume focuses on Western strategic concerns. The withdrawal of ISAF by 2014 will change the overall political setting and the work addresses the challenges that will result for Western policymakers thereafter. It examines the cases of Afghanistan and Pakistan separately, and also looks at the broader region and tries to identify different outcomes. 

This book will be of much interest to students of Central  and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and security studies generally. 

part |184 pages

The Afghanistan problem

chapter 2|51 pages

Not too little, but too late

ISAF's strategic restart of 2010 in light of the coalition's previous mistakes

chapter 4|22 pages

Launching an Afghan peace process

chapter 5|30 pages

Afghanistan between democratization and civil war

Post-2014 scenarios

part |34 pages

Pakistan the ambiguous partner

chapter 6|18 pages

Militant Islam in South Asia

Past trajectories and present implications

chapter 7|14 pages

U.S.–Pakistan relations

Ten years after 9/11

part |86 pages

The broader strategic context