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Pakistan after Trump

Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World

By: Saloni Kapur

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Pakistan after Trump

Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World

By: Saloni Kapur

Since 9/11, the international narrative on Pakistan has painted a picture of a country that is a “safe haven” for terrorists and a “state sponsor of terrorism” that plays a “double game” as it pretends to fight militant Islamist extremists while nurturing them in its “backyard.” This discourse came to prominence in January 2018 when US President Donald Trump famously tweeted that his country had “foolishly” provided military aid to Pakistan since 2001, in return for which Pakistan had given “safe haven to the terrorists [they] hunt in Afghanistan.” This book questions this dominant narrative by showing how the great powers—the United States, the United Kingdom, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Iran—have directly caused the emergence of a militant ecosystem in Pakistan. Drawing on interviews with journalists, diplomats, academics, military officers, and government officials, it argues that it is Pakistanis who have borne the brunt of terrorist violence, especially since 9/11. The book uses the English School of International Relations’ concept of great power responsibility to explore how powerful states could help fight militancy in Pakistan holistically. It highlights the Pakistani military’s effort to rehabilitate young militants, and posits that international society must support not only “hard” counterterrorism through military aid, but also “soft” counterterrorism such as rehabilitation to address the root causes of radicalisation. With the Trump administration’s suspension of military aid to Pakistan, this timely book offers guidance for policymakers in both the West and Asia on how best to approach Pakistan’s security quagmire.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527567273

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9781527567276

A Fragile Inheritance

Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

By: Saloni Mathur

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A Fragile Inheritance

Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

By: Saloni Mathur

In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

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Duke University Press

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1478003383

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India by Design

Colonial History and Cultural Display

By: Saloni Mathur

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India by Design

Colonial History and Cultural Display

By: Saloni Mathur

India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events—from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day—through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520941055

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9780520941052

Pakistan after Trump

Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World

By: Saloni Kapur

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Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World

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A Fragile Inheritance

Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

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Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

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Pakistan after Trump

Pakistan after Trump

A Fragile Inheritance

A Fragile Inheritance

India by Design

India by Design

Pakistan after Trump

Pakistan after Trump

A Fragile Inheritance

A Fragile Inheritance

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