Gautam Kukreja

Political Economy of Pakistan’s Military

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

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Book Review– The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

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

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The Disintegration of the USSR: the Factors

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

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Soviet Economy after the October Revolution

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

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

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

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The Opposition to Khomeini’s Velayat-e-Faqih

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

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New Wars and Old Wars: A Book Review

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

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Relevance of Borders in Contemporary World

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

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Notes on the History of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the largest country in the Middle East by area…

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