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 ...
The 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 ...
In both India and Pakistan, the urban middle class is by and large supportive of authoritarian tendencies of their governments, writes Raza Habib Raja. Judges are afraid in India, media is curbed, opposition members are ...