Volume 7, No. 2, February 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier
Dr. Nosheen Ali
Nosheen Ali’s ambitious, wide-ranging, and passionately polemical book begins with a remarkable claim..
PDM and Left’s role
The opposition’s 11-party alliance the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) reflects a familiar pattern in Pakistan’s history..
Dr. Nichola Khan
Prof. Stephen M. Lyon:Political Kinship in Pakistan(Lexington Books, 2019)
Stephen Lyon’s fascinating book uses the lenses of descent lineage and marriage to demonstrate the ways in which “one part of the world both establishes and resists control over groups of people” (p.1)..
Professor Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
‘High politics’ comprises foreign relations and ‘low politics’ domestic affairs, with intermixing of the state-centric view and the transnational..
Military dominance and the developing political struggle
The people of Pakistan can be forgiven for their present state of dissatisfaction that has still to find organised political form…
Professor Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
The western Post-World War II paradigm of ‘realism’ is facing challenges in view of the changes in the international system…
Political impasse in Pakistan
Pakistan’s armed forces today are amongst the most modern, fourth largest, well funded on the globe..
Marx is back
Eric Rahim: A Promethean Vision: The Formation of Karl Marx’s Worldview (Praxis Press, 2020)
Dr. Taimur Rahman
Marx is back. From protests against economic inequality in recent decades and the rise of a new social democratic politics…
Ahmad Rafay Alam
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) recently invited international firms to submit expressions of interest..
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus..