US Interests in South Asia in Post 9/11 Era: Effects on Pakistan
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Amerika Serikat adalah sebuah negara kuat yang selalu memainkan perannya disetiap permasalahan yang sedang dialami setiap negara-negara di dunia, Amerika Serikat selalu muncul sebagai mediator atau penengah dari setiap permasalahan yang... more
Pakistan and the US have enjoyed an uneven relationship since the creation of Pakistan. While Pakistan did benefit from the US assistance to modernize its military and defense capabilities, the perceptions are varied due to diverging... more
To understand the significance of the Taliban to Pakistan, it is important to understand the historically fraught ties not only between India and Pakistan, but also between Pakistan and Afghanistan. While it is commonly believed that... more
Contemporary critical theorising on US Empire tends to diverge in two ways. First, more traditional approaches tend to foreground the national basis of the USA's imperial project and the subsequent ongoing inter-imperial rivalry inherent... more
After ten years of precarious military, intelligence and other security cooperation between Pakistan and the United States, the two countries could not be more at odds. Worse, as much as they despise each other, they both know that their... more
In the wake of the 9/11 ‗war against terrorism', Bush's vision of ‗Pax Americana' and ‗Axis of evil' played a crucial role in shaping the global interactions among states. It resulted in the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, led by the... more
This chapter examines the state of U.S.-Pakistan relations a decade after the events of 9/11. In this chapter, I propose a somewhat radical way of reframing our relations with Pakistan. In 2009, I argued that if U.S. efforts to persuade... more
The pundits in the West blaming Islam for the rise of extremism are projecting their own countries’ crimes onto the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. The kinds of people who blame Islam and Muslims for the spread of extremism are the kinds of... more
The change in international order from uni-polar to multi- polar has resulted in change of US priorities. South Asia faces new challenges amid these changes. US concerns over a range of issues like terrorism, Islamic militancy and nuclear... more
The purpose of this study is to contribute to an awareness of the hegemonic forces behind violence-both enduring and emerging forms of violence-in the Third World through a critical analysis of several representative postcolonial novel... more
The paper provides insight into the existing phenomenon of terrorism and the consequent war against terror waged around the world to combat the terrorist groups and organizations. In the beginning, the paper opens with a brief... more
"The Future of the U.S. Drone Program in Pakistan,” Sarah J. Watson and C. Christine Fair in C. Christine Fair and Sarah Watson Eds. Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015): pp. 72-97. In... more
"Introduction: Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges,” C. Christine Fair and Sarah J. Watson in C. Christine Fair and Sarah Watson Eds. Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015): pp. 1-26.
PM MODI WILL FULFILL THE EXPECTATIONS OF USA It is shameful for Indian PM to declare in the presence of scoundrel US President that "India will try its best to fulfil the expectations that the US and the world has from it”. PM should have... more
Observers of Pakistani politics say Pakistanis universally loathe the American drone strikes against Islamist militants in Pakistan's tribal belt. The view is based on anecdotal accounts of Pakistanis, but not the ones most affected by... more
In practice, the Bush Doctrine has not increased global security, but anarchy. And the foreign policies of the Bush era, which turned the US Constitution into putty in the hands of an all-powerful president (and vice president), have... more