The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence (Cambridge South Asian Studies)

In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country's independence and convincingly demonstrates how the imperatives of the international system in the 'cold war' era combined with regional and domestic factors to mould the structure of the Pakistani state.Ayesha Jalal is the author of 'The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence (Cambridge South Asian Studies)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521373487 and ISBN 0521373484.