Pakistanmoral regulationThis paper explores the relationship between (national) culture and state formation, arguing that the former is effectively a field of contestation where struggles over hegemony between various classes and social blocs are played out. Cultural nationalism has been the pre‐eminent...
In the past, the predicament of women was that the violations of their rights took place in the ‘private’ realm of family, religion, or culture and thus were beyond the reach of the law. The trend toward holding governments accountable for the failure to protect women from harm perpetrated...
(G8); numerous other populous and prominent countries, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Venezuela; ...
Political Culture and Voting Behavior; A Case Study of Parsi Community in Pakistan Journal of Political StudiesDar, Zainab AsifAwan, Asma
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when a US-led western coalition toppled the regime from power for providing refuge to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Taliban regrouped across the border in Pakistan and has led an insurgency against the US forces and the Afghan government...
99 v INTRODUCTION Scholars of post-independence Indian history, politics, and culture will welcome University Publications of America's latest microfiche edition of Political Pamphlets from the Indian Subcontinent. Some nine hundred pieces and forty-five thousand pages—published by political parties, ...
Like other developing nations, Bangladesh's history has long been intertwined with a culture of violent confrontational politics, with opposition political parties utilizing hartals in attempting to advance their political agenda. Such enforcement of hartals is considered successful when all shops remain ...
charades, or maybe musical chairs. Let it be said here not all Muslims are violent or threatening. Neither are all acts of jihad, if the term is to be properly understood. But the relationship between Islam, jihad, and terrorism is another front of America’s culture war that needs work....
With the US fast turning into a totalitarian police state, one would assume that the foundations upon which this fascist, technocratic, surveillanceculture of fearis based would be on solid footing. However, as anyone can plainly and reasonably see with the barest of investigatory acumen, nothing...
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