Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia: Militancy, Politics and Security
Author: Prem Mahadevan File Type: pdf font face=Segoe UI, serif size=2State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in todays international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. In Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia, Prem Mahadevan demonstrates how over several decades, radical Islamists, sometimes with the tacit support of parts of the military establishment, have weakened democratic governance in Pakistan and acquired progressively larger influence over policy-making. fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2 Mahadevan traces this history back to the anti-colonial Deobandi movement, which was born out of the post-partition political atmosphere and a rediscovery of the thinking of Ibn Taymiyyah, and partially ennobled the idea of fontjihad in South Asia as a righteous war against foreign oppression. Using Pakistani media and academic sources for the bulk of its raw data, and reinforcing this with scholarly analysis from Western commentators, the book tracks Pakistans trajectory towards afont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2soft Islamic revolution. Envisioned by the countrys intelligence community as a solution to chronic governance failures, these narratives called for a re-orientation away from South Asia and towards the Middle East. In the process, Pakistan has become a sanctuary for Arab jihadist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, who had no previous ethnic or linguistic connection with South Asia. Most alarmingly, official discourse on terrorism has been partly silenced by the military-intelligence complex. The result is a slow drift towards extremism and possible legitimation of internationally proscribed terrorist organizations in Pakistans electoral politics.font p Segoe UI, serif 13px**
Author: Simon Morgan Wortham
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Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism. Key features blockquote Offers a systematic account of the modern European traditions relationship to the question of pain and suffering Suggests new readings of ethics and evil Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theory Sets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy blockquote **About the Author Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University and Co-Director of the London Graduate School. He is the author of The Poetics of Sleep From Aristotle to Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2013), The Derrida Dictionary (Continuum, 2010), Derrida Writing Events (Continuum, 2008), Experimenting Essays With Samuel Weber (Fordham University Press, 2007) (co-edited with Gary Hall), Encountering Derrida Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction (Continuum, 2007) (co-edited with Allison Weiner), Counter-institutions Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham University Press, 2006), Samuel Weber Acts of Reading (Ashgate, 2003), and Rethinking the University Leverage and Deconstruction (Manchester University Press, 1999).
Author: Cormac McCarthy
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended Americas westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the wild west. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner, writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.Cormac McCarthys masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf. A classic American novel of regeneration through violence, declares Michael Herr. McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers.From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Anders Widfeldt
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This book provides an up-to-date account of extreme right parties in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It seeks to explain why these parties have grown in support, and in Denmark and Norway reached positions of direct political influence. Following an analytical framework, in which explanatory factors on the demand- as well as supply-sides are identified, the book investigates a wide range of possible such factors. The account covers economic conditions, immigration and political trust, as well as the extent of the fascist and Nazi legacy in Scandinavia. Each of the three countries is then subject to an in-depth study. The origins, historical development, ideology, organisation and leadership of the relevant extreme right parties in each country are analysed thoroughly. The analysis draws on party documents and publications, such as party manifestos, as well as media sources, biographies and academic literature. The main argument of the book is that internal supply-side factors, that is factors within the parties themselves, are indispensable in order to understand variations in the success of extreme right parties. External conditions are not unimportant, but account for very little if the parties do not provide a political package that can tap the potential demand. **About the Author Anders Widfeldt has been a lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen since 1996. He obtained his doctoral degree at Goteborg University in Sweden. Besides right-wing extremism and populism, his research interests also include party membership and party organisations.
Author: Jennie Hall
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Author: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
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This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection. Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction, these economists predictions are ready for their close-ups. In this book, ten prominent economists -- including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates -- offer their ideas about the world of the twenty-second century.In scenarios that range from the optimistic to the guardedly gloomy, these thinkers consider such topics as the transformation of work and wages, the continuing increase in inequality, the economic rise of China and India, the endlessly repeating cycle of crisis and (projected) recovery, the benefits of technology, the economic consequences of political extremism, and the long-range effects of climate change. For example, 2013 Nobelist Robert Shiller provides an innovative view of future risk management methods using information technology and Martin Weitzman raises the intriguing but alarming possibility of using geoengineering techniques to mitigate the inevitable effects of climate change.Contributors Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Avinash K. Dixit, Edward L. Glaeser, Andreu Mas-Colell, John E. Roemer, Alvin E. Roth, Robert J. Shiller, Robert M. Solow, Martin L. Weitzman **ReviewStimulating reading.(Foreign Affairs) About the Author Ignacio Palacios-Huerta is Professor of Management and Strategy at the London School of Economics.
Author: Matthew Glencross
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This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how these met the expectations of the monarchic institution in different states at a time of such crisis. Its contributors not only explore less familiar narratives, including the experiences of monarchs in Belgium and Italy, as well as the Austro-Hungarian, Japanese and Ottoman Empires, but also cast fresh light on more familiar accounts. In doing so, this book moves away from the conventional view that monarchy showed itself irrelevant in the Great War, by drawing on new approaches to diplomatic and international history - ones informed by cultural contextualization for instance - while grounding the research behind each chapter in a wide range of contemporary sources The chapters provide an innovative revisiting of the actual role of monarchy at this crucial period in European (indeed, global) history, and are framed by a substantial introductory chapter where the key factors explaining the survival or collapse of dynasties, and of the individuals occupying these thrones, are considered in a wide-ranging set of reflections that highlight the extent of common experiences as well as the differences. **From the Back Cover This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how these met the expectations of the monarchic institution in different states at a time of such crisis. Its contributors not only explore less familiar narratives, including the experiences of monarchs in Belgium and Italy, as well as the Austro-Hungarian, Japanese and Ottoman Empires, but also cast fresh light on more familiar accounts. In doing so, this book moves away from the conventional view that monarchy showed itself irrelevant in the Great War, by drawing on new approaches to diplomatic and international history - ones informed by cultural contextualization for instance - while grounding the research behind each chapter in a wide range of contemporary sources The chapters provide an innovative revisiting of the actual role of monarchy at this crucial period in European (indeed, global) history, and are framed by a substantial introductory chapter where the key factors explaining the survival or collapse of dynasties, and of the individuals occupying these thrones, are considered in a wide-ranging set of reflections that highlight the extent of common experiences as well as the differences. About the Author Matthew Glencross is a Royal and Constitutional historian in the Department of Political Economy, Kings College London, UK. His previous publications include The Royal Tours of Edward VII Reinventing Royal Diplomacy for the Twentieth Century(Palgrave, 2015) and the co-edited collection The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the PresentLong to Reign Over Us?(Palgrave, 2016). Judith Rowbotham is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK, and Director and co-founder of the SOLON network. She has published widely in the areas of law, cultural, social and legal history including Crime News in Modern Britain Press Reporting and Responsibility 1820-2010(Palgrave, 2013)and co-editing The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the PresentLong to Reign Over Us? (Palgrave, 2016).
Author: Joss Hands
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What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the new political and social forces that are emerging in the age of social media.Gadget Consciousness examines the transformation of our consciousness as a historical political force in two senses as individual consciousness - in terms of sentience and will - and also as class consciousness. Exploring a range of manifestations in the digital commons, he investigates what forms digital solidarity can take, and asks whether we can learn from the communisms of the past and how might solidarity be manifested in the future?Today, the ubiquity of networked gadgets offers exciting new opportunities for social and political change, but also significant dangers of alienation and stupefaction. **Review Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain. (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science) Joss Hands takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of the gadget and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of gadget communism. (Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario) About the Author Joss Hands is senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Newcastle University.