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Pakistan: Eye of the Storm

Autor Owen Bennett Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2009
A fascinating look at Pakistan’s past, an inside account of its recent history, and a knowledgeable assessment of its future options

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones’ market-leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.
Praise for the first edition
“The world has a stake in what happens in Pakistan. How great a stake, this book makes compellingly clear.”—Robert M. Hathaway,Wilson Quarterly
 
“[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful.”—Thomas W. Lippman,Washington Post Book World
Owen Bennett Jones was BBC correspondent in Pakistan and is now correspondent in Asia for the BBC World Service. He has written for theGuardian,theFinancial Times,theIndependent, theLondon Review of Books,andProspectmagazine.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300154757
ISBN-10: 0300154755
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 32 b-w illus. + 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

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"[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful to Americans who want to understand this difficult ally."—Thomas W. Lippman,Washington Post Book World
 

Notă biografică

Owen Bennett Jones was a BBC correspondent in Pakistan between 1998 and 2001 and witnessed firsthand many of the events that brought General Musharraf to power. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, and Independent newspapers, the London Review of Books and Prospect magazine.

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A fascinating look at Pakistan’s past, an inside account of its recent history, and a knowledgeable assessment of its future options

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones’ market-leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.
Praise for the first edition
“The world has a stake in what happens in Pakistan. How great a stake, this book makes compellingly clear.”—Robert M. Hathaway, Wilson Quarterly
 
“[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful.”—Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Book World
Owen Bennett Jones was BBC correspondent in Pakistan and is now correspondent in Asia for the BBC World Service. He has written for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Independent, the London Review of Books, and Prospect magazine.