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This book analyses Pakistan's foreign policy and external relations
with a focus on contemporary developments, including the impact of
the new government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the powerful
military, and the "middle power" status. Structured in two parts -
Foundation and Operationalization - the book provides a broad
overview of Pakistan's foreign policy and addresses specific
foreign policy choices. Contributor's explore issues such as
Pakistan's middle power status from a theoretical perspective,
Imran Khan's foreign policy, Pakistan's relations with Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO), the EU, and Pakistan's evolving
Indian Ocean strategy. Based on in-depth interviews with Pakistani
scholars, politicians, and diplomats, the book offers a timely
perspective on Pakistan's foreign policy. The book will be of
interest to academics working on Pakistan, South Asian Politics,
Security and Conflict Studies, International Relations and Foreign
Policy, and Asian Studies.
This book analyses problems of governance, development and
environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the
centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation
and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive assessment of
the policies, or lack thereof. Authors from a variety of
disciplines empirically and conceptually evaluate latest
developments, events and data regarding law and order, economic
under-performance, social intolerance and climate crisis. The book
offers varied perspectives on state sovereignty, civil-military
relations, spousal violence, rural development, CPEC, nuclear
governance and transboundary climate risk. Arguing that the
conclusions should be adopted by the social, political and economic
stakeholders of Pakistan, as well as the region at the higher level
of governability, the book demonstrates that it would both boost
national morale and inspire individuals to further investigate to
come up with innovative solutions. Examining some of the most
pressing and persistent problems Pakistan and South Asia is facing,
the book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of
Political Science, in particular South Asian Politics, Development
Studies and Environmental Studies.
This book analyses problems of governance, development and
environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the
centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation
and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive assessment of
the policies, or lack thereof. Authors from a variety of
disciplines empirically and conceptually evaluate latest
developments, events and data regarding law and order, economic
under-performance, social intolerance and climate crisis. The book
offers varied perspectives on state sovereignty, civil-military
relations, spousal violence, rural development, CPEC, nuclear
governance and transboundary climate risk. Arguing that the
conclusions should be adopted by the social, political and economic
stakeholders of Pakistan, as well as the region at the higher level
of governability, the book demonstrates that it would both boost
national morale and inspire individuals to further investigate to
come up with innovative solutions. Examining some of the most
pressing and persistent problems Pakistan and South Asia is facing,
the book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of
Political Science, in particular South Asian Politics, Development
Studies and Environmental Studies.
This book aims to analyze two contrasting trends of integration and
rivalry among great powers and regional states of Himalaya. It
examines the interactions between the great powers and the small
states in the Himalayan region, analyzes the multiple effects of
the great power rivalry on the regional cooperation, and predicts
the possible directions of the future of the geo-politics and
geo-economy in the Himalayan region by incorporating the most
recent developments. The main content of the book is divided into
11 parts. The Introduction briefly explains the aims and scope of
this book. The following chapter focuses on the Buddhist ties
between China and the Himalayan states in the past two millennia
and its dual influence in the Himalayan region. The rest 9 chapters
provide an in-depth analyses of the security dilemma between China
and India, Indian perspectives on China-South Asian relations,
Chinese perspectives on U.S. and Japan's engagement with South Asia
and Indo-Myanmar relations, and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and
Nepal's responses to the regional integration and great power
rivalry in the Himalayan region respectively. This is the first
study which brings the Himalaya region at the center of
geopolitical and geo-economics cooperation and rivalry thus
highlighting its significance in Asian politics. It offers a
comprehensive analysis of the complicated geo-political and
geo-economic competition in the Himalayan region by inviting
experts from both South Asia and China to contribute chapters. It
also balances the west-centered views on the great power rivalry by
introducing cultural perspective and small state perspective. The
broad approach adopted in the book with focus on all important
countries expands the scope of readership beyond specific academic
community. The book will interest academics, policy makers,
journalists, general reader and students of Asian politics.
This book aims to analyze two contrasting trends of integration and
rivalry among great powers and regional states of Himalaya. It
examines the interactions between the great powers and the small
states in the Himalayan region, analyzes the multiple effects of
the great power rivalry on the regional cooperation, and predicts
the possible directions of the future of the geo-politics and
geo-economy in the Himalayan region by incorporating the most
recent developments. The main content of the book is divided into
11 parts. The Introduction briefly explains the aims and scope of
this book. The following chapter focuses on the Buddhist ties
between China and the Himalayan states in the past two millennia
and its dual influence in the Himalayan region. The rest 9 chapters
provide an in-depth analyses of the security dilemma between China
and India, Indian perspectives on China-South Asian relations,
Chinese perspectives on U.S. and Japan's engagement with South Asia
and Indo-Myanmar relations, and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and
Nepal's responses to the regional integration and great power
rivalry in the Himalayan region respectively. This is the first
study which brings the Himalaya region at the center of
geopolitical and geo-economics cooperation and rivalry thus
highlighting its significance in Asian politics. It offers a
comprehensive analysis of the complicated geo-political and
geo-economic competition in the Himalayan region by inviting
experts from both South Asia and China to contribute chapters. It
also balances the west-centered views on the great power rivalry by
introducing cultural perspective and small state perspective. The
broad approach adopted in the book with focus on all important
countries expands the scope of readership beyond specific academic
community. The book will interest academics, policy makers,
journalists, general reader and students of Asian politics.
This is an ethnographic study that focuses on the shrine of Sayedi
Mossani with specific interest in the symbolic healing practiced at
the shrine. This shrine is famous for surgery through dreams and is
mostly visited by people who suffered of chronic illness and
diseases for years. Dream provide the medium where by the dead
saint visited the patients and transformed them from the state of
illness to the state of the health. Dreams and their interpretation
is dominant medium of therapy at the shrine.Dreams which are
interpreted by the Fakirs of the saint at the Mazar help the
patients to develop alternative narrative or life stories and help
them to externalize their problem. Dream therapy in this instance
is not bent on curing a disease but directed toward an alternative
narrative of healing that hammers out new and viable way of
articulating self and the world. So that the therapeutic encounter
and the wary intimate healing relationship with the divine doctors,
Sayedi Mossani, is the source of empowerment and transformation.
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between
market structure and performance in the banking sector using data
from Pakistani commercial banks. Investigating the effect of
changes in the market structure on profitability is based on the
structure-conduct-performance (SCP) and efficient-structure (E-S)
hypotheses. Researcher has taken a sample of 20 scheduled
commercial banks incorporated in Pakistan to examine the above
hypotheses, using the annual and panel data for a period of 9 years
from year 1996-2004. Three measures of bank's performance are
utilized i.e. return on assets (ROA), return on capital (ROC) and
return on equity (ROE). Concentration ratio (CR) has been used to
measure structure-conduct-performance (SCP) hypothesis and market
share to measure efficient-structure (E-S) hypothesis. Control
variables were used to capture market specific characteristics such
as bank size, market size, risk to owners, liquidity measure,
market risk, and market growth as well.
Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership
generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for
handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position.
Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its
domestic economic success for the growing "China's rise" idea on
the global stage, China in the 21st century faces a mixture of old
and new challenges, including terrorism, hegemonism, and
authoritarianism. While Deng Xiaooping combined Taoism, an ancient
Chinese philosophy, into "Taoist diplomacy" in response to the
hostile international position after the Tiananmen Incident,
China's foreign policy keeps changing, and the multidimensional
diplomacy adopted by China can be seen as a consistent theme in
Chinese foreign policy in the 21st century. Multidimensional
Diplomacy of Contemporary China attempts to examine the origins,
guiding principles and sequential outcomes of China's
multidimensional diplomacy in the 21st century, working under the
flag of "peaceful development," "harmonious international order,"
and "global responsibility." The contributions are grouped into
three sections. The first discusses the theoretical foundations of
multidimensional diplomacy. The second section turns the analytical
focus to China's immediate neighbors in East Asia, and at last the
book will go beyond the immediate neighborhood of China to the
global community. These essays explore China's dealings with the
countries of Africa, the Gulf, and the South Pacific and provide
other in-depth analyses on China's foreign policy towards Pakistan,
Russia, and Japan. This book seeks to significantly shape the
knowledge and thinking about China's global interactions in the
21st century.
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