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Review: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy Review: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy 

Review: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy

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

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

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

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

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Political Economy of Pakistan’s Military Political Economy of Pakistan’s Military 

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 PolanyiBook Review– The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

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 FactorsThe Disintegration of the USSR: the Factors

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 RevolutionSoviet Economy after the October Revolution

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…

7 months ago
Caste, Class, Varna and Race: Social and Political and Cultural DiscoursesCaste, Class, Varna and Race: Social and Political and Cultural Discourses

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-FaqihThe Opposition to Khomeini’s Velayat-e-Faqih

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: A Book Review 

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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Notes on the History of Saudi Arabia Notes on the History of Saudi Arabia 

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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