Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq

by Amin Saikal

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation, neo-fundamentalism and pluralism, they embody a mosaic of ethnicities. Amin Saikal, a distinguished Afghan-born scholar of international affairs, provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780763190
• ISBN13: 9781780763194
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"