The military and the praetorian regimes in Pakistan politics: political usurpers or protectors of an incipient democracy?

Pakistan seems to be a classic example of a praetorian state with regimes oscillating on both sides of the middle point of a military rule-democracy continuum, where the armed forces - often in collusion with the civil bureaucracy - is lodged in the centre of governance, dictating the actual course...

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Main Author: Suraiya
Other Authors: Khan, Shamsul
Format: Journal
Published: Journal of International Studies, UUM College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2009
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Online Access:http://www.myjurnal.my/public/article-view.php?id=16991