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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism – IV

The Question of Responsibility

Mahmood Mamdani

Who bears responsibility for the present situation? To understand this question, it will help to contrast two situations, that after WWII and that after the Cold War, and compare how the question of responsibility was understood and addressed in two different contexts.

Pakistan Here and Now: The Language of the Heart – IV

Pursuit of the ‘beloved’

Navid Shahzad

The distinct presence of Islamic practice and an Indo-Persian tradition in Faiz’s poetry strike a distinctly different note from that of Hikmet’s verse which, on the whole, remains largely rooted in Turkish folk tradition as much as it is influenced by the modernist avant-garde movement popular with young Soviet poets known as Futurism.

Political Narrative of Pakistan: Problems, Costs, Challenges

S Zulfiqar Gilani

Since the birth of Pakistan in August 1947, there has been contestation around its political narrative. However, there is an official narrative that has dominated and underpins a certain political order.

It Would Be Fine to Help Make Mexico a Happy Place

Vijay Prashad

With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism and dependency, can Morena’s Fourth Transformation restore dignity and sovereignty to the country?

From Marx to Mao – and After – II

Programme of the Cultural Revolution

Ray Nunes

Although a Cultural Revolution (CR) group was formed in 1965, and although at that time Mao saw the general outlines of what he aimed at and even defined

The War in Ukraine – A History: How the US Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order – II

Thomas I Palley 

An undisputed fact is that, except for East German membership, Russia has persistently objected to this NATO expansion. Its argument has consistently been that eastward NATO expansion poses a threat to Russian national security.

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism – III

Afghan jihad fed into global Islamic war

Mahmood Mamdani

The CIA looked for, but was unable to find, a Saudi Prince to lead this crusade. It settled for the next best thing, the son of an illustrious family closely connected to the Saudi royal house.

The Baloch and Pashtun nationalist movements in Pakistan: Colonial legacy and the failure of state policy – IV

Nationalism, religion, political and economic representation

Kriti M Shah

While Pashtuns and Baloch have had a similar history and experience with regards to atrocities committed against them by the state, their movements have taken different paths.

Pakistan Here and Now: The Language of the Heart – III

At the crossroads of poetry and politics

Navid Shahzad

The term ‘culture’, which is commonly used as a synonym for western civilisation, was popularised by the British anthropologist Sir Edward B Tylor

From Marx to Mao – and After

Ray Nunes

The Restoration of Capitalism in China

The restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union was the outcome of the growth of a new capitalist class within the country, commonly referred to as ‘the new bourgeoisie’.