Pakistan: A Hard Country By Anatol Lieven
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Pakistan: A Hard Country By Anatol Lieven

Author: Anatol Lieven
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Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven offers an in-depth exploration of Pakistan’s intricate political, cultural, and social dynamics. Combining historical context with on-the-ground reportage, Lieven examines the nation’s regions, ethnicities, religious traditions, and societal structures. He highlights the paradox of Pakistan’s enduring stability amidst challenges, attributing it to deep-rooted kinship networks and local patronage systems. This comprehensive analysis provides readers with a nuanced understanding of a country often misrepresented in global discourse.

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Anatol Lieven’s book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven’s extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.

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Author

Language

English
Edition

2012
Pages

566
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Penguin UK

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