Decoding Pakistan's 'strategic shift' in Afghanistan / Moeed Yusuf. Solna : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2013 ; Halle (Saale) : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013
Content
Contents
Preface
Summary
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The ‘strategic shift’: from what, to where?
Pakistani policy up to 2001
Responding to the new realities after September 2001
Pakistan’s Afghan policy 2001–12: new aims, old behaviour
3. The logic behind Pakistan’s paradoxicalbehaviour in the endgame
Mixed messages on reconciliation
Leaving the sanctuaries alone
The flip side: good faith and cooperation with the USA
4. Approaching the ISAF withdrawal: what hasPakistan achieved?
5. Conclusions and the way forward