| ID | 164731 |
| Title Proper | Geopolitics on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland |
| Other Title Information | an overview of different historical phases |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rais, Rasul Bakhsh |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This research focuses on the relationship between the tribe and the state in Pakistan’s Western borderlands and how this relationship has been continuously affected by the security needs of the state. I argue that there is a dialectical relationship between the tribe and the state. Both of them represent an authority structure, institutions, leadership and rules and procedures to govern populations. While the logic of the state and the modern notions of national sovereignty and territorial control would require assimilation of the tribe into the larger national community, the tribe and its chieftain would strive to maintain their autonomy, traditions and time-tested political arrangements that have served their purpose. The ethos and structural needs of the two to survive and develop – for the state to expand and the tribe to resist and maintain its relative autonomy – clash. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 24, No.2; Apr-Jun 2019: p.284-307 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 24 No 2 |
| Key Words | Geopolitics ; Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland |