Anyway, those interested in Pakistani affais (is anyone here not?) should also check out the latest issue of Columbia’s Journal of International Affairs. Its focus is on ‘domestic pressures and regional threats’, and one or two articles focus on Afghanistan, but it’s still worth checking out.

Contents:

Ishrat Husain – The Role of Politics in Pakistan’s Economy
Andrew Wilder – The Politics of Civil Service Reform in Pakistan
C. Christine Fair – Pakistan’s Own War on Terror: What the Pakistani Public Thinks
Ayesha Siddiqa – Jihadism in Pakistan: The Expanding Frontier
Marvin G. Weinbaum – Countering Insurgency and Terrorism in Pakistan
Saeed Shafqat – Pakistan: Militancy, Transition to Democracy and Future U.S Relations
Bruce Riedel – The Mumbai Massacre and its Implications for America and South Asia
Sumit Ganguly & Nicholas Howenstein – India-Pakistan Rivalry in Afghanistan
Syed Hasnat – Pakistan’s Strategic Interests, Afghanistan and the Fluctuating U.S. Strategy
Kimberly Marten – The Danger of Tribal Militias in Afghanistan
Interview with Dov Zakheim
Cordier Essay by Justin Mankin – How Afghan Opium Underpins Local Power
Review Essays: Tabinda Khan, Austin Long and Francesco Mancini

http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/current.html

Check it out.

I am looking for a favor of sending me your email address… due to some technical error i’m finding it hard to send you an e-mail through this page.

In Peace,

Malik Usman Khan
University for Peace
Costa Rica

It can be a big mess :)

“Why not call ethnic, regional, linguistic nationalisms by their names…Balochi, Assamese, Sindhi, Kashmiri? The “sub-” is unnecessary because sometimes these nationalisms might be working with what you call “the hegemonic nation-state nationalism.”

I’d venture as far as saying that even nation-state nationalisms can be regarded as “sub-nationalisms” as well, particularly with countries are break off pieces of a larger entity.

In Delhi, I had often heard this political science term come up in boring Conferences on Kashmir, Assam and Nagaland in the early 1990s. But it has been given up (even by political scientists…things changed so rapidly in the 1990s)… so I hardly expected to come across it on CM. The adherents of different subnationalisms might feel provoked into saying, Uski kameez meri kameez se safed kaise. I don’t know if there is a more recent citation for the concept. My feeling is that it has long been given up even by political scientists.

Why not call ethnic, regional, linguistic nationalisms by their names…Balochi, Assamese, Sindhi, Kashmiri? The “sub-” is unnecessary because sometimes these nationalisms might be working with what you call “the hegemonic nation-state nationalism.” Something is lost with the “sub-”…more so when all these movements have their own histories.

But nation-state nationalisms are composed of linguistic, regional, and ethnic threads as well, no?

And even with nation-state nationalism, it’s not like there is one hegemonic and monolithic nationalism (ie “the hegemonic nation-state nationalism”). There are various nation-state nationalismS, which I think compete one another and jostle with one another. Like with India, there are different kinds and conceptualizations of nationalism…

See, Mitra, The Rational Politics of Cultural Nationalism: Subnational Movements of South Asia in Comparative Perspective, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 25, No. 1. (Jan., 1995), pp. 57-77.

“What is a sub-nationalism? A nationalism opposed to a nationalism? A nationalism less than a nationalism?”

That’s an excellent question, when you think about it. My first impulse was to say that it is more regional and ethnic based, but then you could say the same about nationalism. I suppose in this context, “sub-nationalism” might be that which is within the overriding nationalism of the nation state (Pakistan), and one that could or could not be in defiance of this larger nationalism.

Or maybe Sepoy wants to elaborate…

gender and citizenship

Shanaz Rouse. The Outsider (s) Within: Sovereignty and Citizenship in Pakistan. In Shifting Body Politics (Kali Press: 2004).

class and labor history

Kamran Ali. The Strength of the Street Meets the Strength of the State. International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005) 83-107

Pakistan and East Bengladesh Independence

Yasmin Saikia. Beyond the Archive of Silence. History Workshop Journal. 58(1) (2004): 275-287

Thanks