The Nazis came to power in Germany when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on the 30th of January 1933. And on the 23rd of March the German legislature, the Reichstag, passed the Enabling Act (named euphemistically as “An Act to Remedy the Distress of the People and the State”), which enabled the Hitler government to issue […]
The militarization of the Pakistani state and society is undoubtedly the gift that Cold War dynamics of international and regional politics brought at our doorsteps, writes Umer Farooq Pakistan was born at a time when Cold War was heating up at the international stage—dynamics of superpower rivalries and its impacts on developing countries of the […]
251SharesThe modernization thesis has been contested, challenged and ultimately discarded under the latest scholarship on democratization. Economically developed authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia, China and Qatar compelled scholars to review their basic assumptions and revamp modern democratic theory. A through revision of the literature led to the introduction of a new theoretical explanation, which I […]