Can Pakistan become a Democracy?

Описание: Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha, an independent security analyst based in Pakistan

Siddiqa-Agha is a scholar of Pakistan's military and security affairs. She has worked on issues varying from military technology, defense decision-making, nuclear deterrence, arms procurement, arms production to civil-military relations in South Asia.

Siddiqa-Agha served as Director of Naval Research with the Pakistan Navy making her the first civilian - and woman - to work at that position in Pakistan's defense establishment. She has written for various international journals like the Journal for Defense and Peace Economics, Jane's Defense Weekly and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. She has also written commissioned papers on small arms and light weapons proliferation and problems of governance.

Dr. Siddiqa-Agha is the author of the new book "Military Inc., The Politics of Military's Economy in Pakistan." In the book Siddiqa-Agha analyzes the Pakistan military's vast commercial interests and its economic predation since 1953. She is also the author of "Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, (1979-99)."

(Sep 20, 2007 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)