Review: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy

9 months ago
Gautam Kukreja

During the worldwide fall of Communism, beginning in the 1980s, the West was gripped by the rise of political dominance…

Book Review: E.H. Carr’s A History of Soviet Russia: Volume 1: The Bolshevik Revolution

9 months ago

Edward Hallett Carr is perhaps the greatest and most authentic authority when it comes to the History of the USSR.…

Political Economy of Pakistan’s Military

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“The Army is the nation and the nation is with the Army”, COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said on Martyr’s…

Book Review– The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

10 months ago

Few scholarly works have modest beginnings but have become one of the most renowned seminal works. An epitome of it…

The Disintegration of the USSR: the Factors

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Few people in the USSR saw the end of the Cold War as a setback for the Soviet Union and…

Soviet Economy after the October Revolution

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In 1921, Vladimir Lenin initiated a new economic agenda for the Soviet Union, which had been seriously harmed by years…

Caste, Class, Varna and Race: Social and Political and Cultural Discourses

10 months ago

Caste has a significance: that is its social morphology. The several Backward Classes Commissions established in independent India have noted…

The Opposition to Khomeini’s Velayat-e-Faqih

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In his book Kashf al-Asrar (1941), Ayatollah Khomeini acknowledged, “The wilayah of the mujtahid ... has been the subject of…

New Wars and Old Wars: A Book Review

10 months ago

New Wars and Old Wars: Human history, it is said, is primarily about war. Whether or not everyone agrees with…

Relevance of Borders in Contemporary World

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For the last three decades, scholars have argued about the diminishing significance of international borders and the increasing impact of…