A generation born online, coming of age under curfews, censorship  and increasingly choosing exit over engagement. Some books really fit the evolving dynamics of a country, and Stephen P. Cohen’s The Idea of Pakistan  is one such work. Building an argument that Pakistan’s political future cannot be forecasted without reckoning with the oversized role of its security establishment, Cohen also intertwines the long shadow this system casts over civilian life. The idea in between

The power dynamics across Asia and Africa are highly complex and varied. In some regions totalitarian leaders and autocrats maintain a...