Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot presents a coherently robust claim about the transformational nature of the political project of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party to change the nature of Indian politics by re-interpreting decades of Hindutva sentiment into a political programme. According to the author,…
(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), ISBN: 978-3-031-91519-2 (Pages: XXI-285). Murad Ali’s scholarly contribution in the ongoing academic debate concerning the evolving Sino-Pakistan cooperative bilateral ties is an attempt to provide a different picture of the signed corridor project between the two countries. It is a timely study that places the corridor project (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor- CPEC)…
The intellectual debate on the idea of enlightenment defined by a Prussian Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, always remained an area of less scholarly importance in Pakistan due to the country’s explicit socio-cultural growth under specific ideological patterns centred in certain religious beliefs. Kant’s description of enlightenment starts the debate of Moonis Ahmar’s remarkable and brief intellectual…
The debate on Pakistan’s education system structured in several conventional patterns has always remained an area seeking sufficient attention from Islamabad-based policymakers parallel to maintaining an undeniable relevance with the contemporary challenges of Pakistan. The country’s current education system consisting of complex and multi-tiered arrangements is generally based on structural fragmentations, which hampered the government’s…
The recent history of world politics witnessed by the US-withdrawal from Afghanistan and the re-arrival of Donald Trump in American politics as the 47th President of the United States has altered the conventional framework of Pakistan-US relations. The cooperative ties between the two states have a long history of multidimensional bilateral engagements in diverse domains…
The debate on the developments in post-conflict scenarios and the inception of multilayered reconstruction efforts has gained momentous importance in the post-9/11 international system due to the global rise of non-traditional security threats. An overwhelming wave of literature has appeared from different corners of the world on the changing patterns of global security dynamics under…
The rise of extremist ideas in Indian domestic politics under the Modi government has shaken New Delhi’s constitutional foundations and its manifestations in the country’s foreign relations. The arrival of Modi in Indian politics as Prime Minister augmented the role of religion in the country’s politics based on the fanatical ideological configurations of the Bharatiya…
The American war in Afghanistan lasted for two decades and a substantial number of books were written by western military men, diplomats, politicians, and journalists. They provide an outside perspective, and no Afghan has written about the experience of their nation. Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen is unique as it gives experience of several…
The state-society interaction in Pakistan has a direct connection with the country’s political stability, governance structure, and economic development. This interaction has resulted in a multifaceted conflicting scenario in which the country’s political and social landscapes are passing through critical phases. The leading academic surveys from diverse directions of international intellectual communities have emerged, they…
“Pakistan: Search for Stability” is an insightful account of various arguments concerning Pakistan’s quest for managing its political, social, and economic stability while examining the mainstream challenges to its vision of political strength, economic development, and social prosperity. The book highlights various challenges that hinders the country’s potential for becoming a strong nation in regional…
