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Accepted Paper:
Civil-military relations in post-2013 Pakistan
Ian Talbot
(University of Southampton)
Paper short abstract:
The May 2013 Pakistan elections have not been followed by a re-balancing of civil-military relations.The paper contextualizes these contemporary developments through a reflection on Pakistan's political culture and the institutional barriers to democratic consolidation.
Paper long abstract:
In May 2013 Pakistan held landmark elections in which for the first time in the state's history a government had served its full-term in office. Despite inheriting challenging economic and security legacies, commentators saw Nawaz Sharif's return to power for the third time as representing an opportunity for further democratic consolidation as a result of the re-balancing of civil-military relations. These expectations have failed to materialize as the army has consolidated its power. The paper will set the contemporary developments in a theoretical and historical contextualization. In the course of its analysis, it will reflect on Pakistan's political culture and the institutional barriers to consolidating democracy.