PLATE tectonics states, among other theories, that a collision between Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates some 50 million years ago, resulted in the formation of the…
WORLD War-I established the inexorable importance of oil for strategic and industrial expansion. By 1917, the USA’s oil output had risen to 335 million barrels,…
RELIGION, land, language, race, oil, and an oppression of memories–convolved in centuries and turned into a multivariable calculus–the Middle East. It is complex, volatile and…
ISTANBUL is a prize for those who love exploring the aggressive results of cultural metamorphism at the junction of antagonized identities. The unique aspect is…
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Origins of the deep state SAMUEL P Huntington says (Political Order in Changing Societies), “military coups do not destroy parties; they ratify the deterioration which…
Origins of the deep state The origin of Pakistan’s civil-military quagmire traces back to late nineteenth-century pluralist India when anti-colonial awareness started transforming into organized…
