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Robert P Hager

Introduction

Much of the Cold War took place in the Third World. The three works authored by Gregg A Brazinsky: Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War; Jeffry James Byrne: Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order, and Jeremy Friedman: Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, are reviewed here and they provide historical details.

Berch Berberoglu

Introduction

The resurgence of nationalism and ethnonationalist conflict in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its associated Eastern European states in their transition from a form of socialism to a market-oriented direction led by bourgeois forces allied with world capitalism during the decade of the 1990s has prompted a new round of discussion and debate on the origins and development of nationalism and the nation-state that has implications for contemporary nationalism and nationalist movements in the world today.

Saulat Nagi

“If you have tears,” Shakespeare says, “prepare to shed them now.” The electoral farce is over, but its spectre continues to haunt the Pakistani Praetorian Guard driven by an unquenchable desire to keep an iron-fisted control over Pakistan’s polity.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

In what follows I will describe my journey through the pitfalls of US academia from my graduate student days in the 1980s to a tenured full professorship, and how I’ve experienced repeated attempts at silencing and censorship.

NSO launches itself

First Major Political Statement

Visit of American Student Delegation to Punjab University in Lahore

From November 1969 to December 1970 – when the first general elections were held in Pakistan – the National Students Organisation (NSO) found many strategic opportunities to demonstrate its power.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Disappeared persons and Baloch response

Abdul Qadeer Reki aka Mama Qadeer had been sitting on token hunger strike outside Press Clubs in Quetta and Karachi since July 28, 2009.

Rashed Rahman

What were the distinctive political conditions that led to Third World Revolutions after WWII and in the era of decolonisation?

Bhutto factor: The Ascendancy of Liberal, Mystic, Ascetic Islam

Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti

In the previous three chapters (see Pakistan Monthly Review October, December 2023 and February 2024 respectively – Ed.) I have endeavoured to explain the conceptual position of  the three distinctive classes of Muslim Identity in the Indian Subcontinent and their relative behaviour in the context of pertinent events in history. My narrative of personal experiences and observations in the next chapters have a direct relevance to the historical conceptual position explained in the previous chapters.

Changez Ali

It is the work of Marxists to assign to the proletariat and revolutionary working class a quality essential to them that is distinct from their material and historical position (the latter being taken at any particular moment in history and not the span of history as a whole).

The Frontier Corps (FC) and ground reality

Mohammad Ali Talpur

The Kharotabad (Quetta) incident of May 17, 2011 reflects the attitudes of the Frontier Corps (FC) and police in Balochistan and signifies the value they put on human lives.