Military Inc.

Inside Pakistan's Military Economy

Ayesha Siddiqa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2016 | Second Edition
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-9902-7 (ISBN)

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Dares to illuminate the shadowy workings of Pakistan’s military industrial complex

Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the ‘war on terror’. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service.

Operating in the shadows, Pakistan’s military industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the economic and political landscape of the country. Military Inc. dares to illuminate the military as an oppressive holding company possessing not just security-related businesses, but also hotels, shopping malls, insurance companies, banks, farms and even an airline. The result is a deeply undemocratic society, where money is funnelled towards the military's economic enterprises, leaving those in need of it impoverished and effectively disenfranchised.

With an empirical richness, and a view to Pakistan’s recent history, Ayesha Siddiqa offers a detailed and powerful case study of a global phenomenon: corruption, hollow economic growth and elitism.

This new edition includes a chapter on the recent developments of the military's foray into the media, and a new preface.

Ayesha Siddiqa is a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She is the author of Military Inc. (Pluto, 2016).

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1. Milbus: A Theoretical Concept

2. The Pakistan Military: The Development of Praetorianism, 1947-77

3. Evolution of the Military Class, 1977-2005

4. The Structure of Milbus

5. Milbus: The Formative Years, 1954-77

6. Expansion of Milbus, 1977-2005

7. The New Land Barons

8. Providing for the Men: Military Welfare

9. The Cost of Milbus

10. Milbus and the Future of Pakistan

Postscript to the Second Edition

11. From Military Government to Military Governance, 2007–16

12. From Military Inc. to Media Inc.

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	14 b&w figures, 2 b&w photographs, 1 b&w map
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	716 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7453-9902-9 / 0745399029
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-9902-7 / 9780745399027
Zustand	Neuware