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Isiah Berlin on the Struggle for Recognition in Nationalism

April 25, 2014

“It is this desire for reciprocal recognition that leads the most authoritarian democracies to be, at times, consciously preferred by …

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Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’

April 17, 2014

‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …

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Michel Foucault on Power without the King

April 7, 2014

Long but incredible excerpt of an ‘analytics’ of power, from Michel Foucault History of Sexuality – Vol 1. ‘This history of sexuality, …

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Michael Sandel on Character, Self-knowledge, and Friendship

April 4, 2014

‘If the deontological ethic fails to redeem its own liberating promise, it also fails plausibly to account for certain indispensable …

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The Tragedy of Bangladesh; from ‘minimalist democracy’ to ‘illiberal democracy’

February 23, 2014

Under such conditions, the institution of patronage rapidly consolidated itself as a dominant form of political practice within the state, …

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Bangladesh and the problem of ‘Governance’

February 22, 2014

Although Bangladesh remains a country characterised by continuing mass poverty, the focus of development efforts since the 1990s has shifted …

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William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence

February 16, 2014

‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …

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Joseph Canning on the Clericalisation of the Church

January 20, 2014

Nevertheless there arises the intrusive thought, out of bounds for a historian: this was the moment of the great wrong …

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Focal Dilemma of Contemporary Bangladesh’s Politics?

January 17, 2014

The focal dilemma at the heart of Bangladesh’s politics, or false dilemma? “A nation cannot be separated from the its …

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Anatol Lieven on Justice in Pakistan

December 22, 2013

The Police “The problems affecting the police and the official judicial system in Pakistan are so many and so great …

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Faheem A. Hussain

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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