Name: The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the era of Decolonization, 1936–1965 (Cambridge Studies in us Foreign Relations)
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Author: Elisabeth Leake
ISBN: 9781107126022

portada The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the era of Decolonization, 1936–1965 (Cambridge Studies in us Foreign Relations)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Elisabeth Leake

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781107126022

Synopsis "The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the era of Decolonization, 1936–1965 (Cambridge Studies in us Foreign Relations)"

The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial, then Pakistani, governance; the ongoing border dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan; and continuing interest in the region from Indian, US, British, and Soviet actors. It reveals active attempts by first British, then Pakistani, agents to integrate the tribal region, ranging from development initiatives to violent suppression. The Defiant Border also considers the area's influence on relations between Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India, as well as its role in the United States' increasingly global Cold War policies. Ultimately, the book considers how a region so peripheral to major centers of power has had such an impact on political choices throughout the eras of empire, decolonization, and superpower competition, up to the so-called 'war on terror'.

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