Roads and Rivals

Roads and Rivals
Author: Mahnaz Ispahani
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501745913

Over the past two centuries, the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia have been transformed from the remote peripheries into areas of intense regional and international interest. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands.

Prospects for Peace in South Asia

Prospects for Peace in South Asia
Author: Rafiq Dossani
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804750851

Dossani's book addresses the largely hostile, often violent relations between India and Pakistan that date from their independence in 1947.

Pakistan

Pakistan
Author: Omar Noman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136143947

First published in 1988. This is the first serious academic study of the economic and political development of Pakistan between 1947, the birth of the State, and 1990. First published in 1988 as The Political Economy of Pakistan, this edition has been updated to cover General Zia's death and the start of Benazir Bhutto's government. This book provides an excellent introduction to Pakistan and is of importance to anyone interested in the economic and political development of an Asian country.