Alex Vatanka

Iran and Pakistan (eBook, ePUB)

Security, Diplomacy and American Influence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of around 300 million, have been historically intertwined in various cultural, religious and political ways. Iran was the first country to recognise the emerging independent state of Pakistan in 1947 and the Shah of Iran was the first head of state to visit the new nation. While this relationship shifted following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and tensions do exist between Sunni Pakistan and Shi'i Iran, there has nevertheless been a history of cooperation between the two countries in fields that are of great strategic interest to the US: Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation and terrorism. Yet much of this history of cooperation, conflict and ongoing interactions remains unexplored. Alex Vatanka here presents the first comprehensive analysis of this long-standing and complex relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857739155
• Artikelnr.: 53405306

Autorenporträt

Alex Vatanka

Inhaltsangabe

AcknowledgementsPreface to the New Paperback Edition Introduction1. On the Road to India: Iran's and Pakistan's Intertwined History 2. 1947-1958: Early Hiccups, as Iran and Pakistan Both Look to the US for Protection 3. 1958-1965: Regional Turbulence and an Unlikely Union 4. 1965-1969: The Northern Tier: A Fluid Fault Line5. 1969-71: Iran's Intervention over the Pakistani Defeat of 19716. 1971-77: The Shah and Pakistan's Reluctant Dependence7. 1977-1988: Zia, the Shah and the Coming of the Ayatollah8. The Arrival of the Shi'a-Sunni Schism in Relations9. 1988-2001: Geopolitical Foes, Sometime Partners10. 2001-Present: Afghanistan, the Arab Challenge and Iran's Soft Power in PakistanEpilogue NotesBibliography