Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Pakistan’s Third Democratic Transition

2. Enduring Challenges to Democracy

3. Mapping the ‘Establishment’

4. New Politics of the Middle Class

5. Social Drivers of Democratic Change

6. Military, Militancy, and the Crisis of Governance

7. Pluralist Society Vs. Monist State

8. Judicial Activism, and the Rule of Law

9. Demographic Dividend, and Democracy

10. Understanding the Baloch Ethnic Question post 18th Amendment

11. The Challenges of a Resilient Economy

12. Civil-Military Convergence for Stability

13. Great Powers, Military Supremacy, and Persistent Contestation

About the Author

Ishtiaq Ahmad is Director of the School of Politics and International Relations at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Adnan Rafiq is DPhil candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford, UK.