An edition of The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad
(2006)
The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad
by Eqbal Ahmad
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Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. Collecting his writings, this work reflects his distinct understanding of world politics, as well as his profound sense of empathy for those living in poverty and oppression.
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The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad
2006, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents
Part I: Revolutionary warfare and counterinsurgency
Revolutionary warfare: how to tell when the rebels have won
Radical but wrong
Counterinsurgency
Epilogue: the lessons of Vietnam
PLO and ANC: painful contrasts
Iran's landmark revolution: fifteen years later
The making of the Battle of Algiers
Algeria began badly: remembering Sidi Mohammed
Part II: Third world politics: pathologies of power, pathologies of resistance
From potato sack to potato mash: the contemporary crisis of the Third World
Postcolonial systems of power
The neofascist state: notes on the pathology of power in the Third World
War of the rentier states
Islam and politics
Roots of the religious right
Part III: On the cusp of the cold war: Portents of a new century
The cold war from the standpoint of its victims
Political culture and foreign policy: notes on American interventions in the Third World
The cold war from the standpoint of its victims
Yet again a new Nixon
Cracks in the western world (view): questions for the US and Europe
After the cold war: worlds of pain
At cold war's end: a world of pain
Terrorism: theirs and ours
A time to remember
Welcome war in Bosnia
America's Gulf war: neglected perspectives
The hundred-hour war
Covering the Middle East
After the winter bombs
Part IV: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: colonization in the era of decolonization
Pioneering in the nuclear age: an essay on Israel and the Palestinians
'A world restored' revisited: American diplomacy in the Middle East
An essay on reconciliation
On Arab bankruptcy
The public relations of ethnocide
Peace of the weak
Beyond Arafat's antics
An address in Gaza
King Hussein's dual legacy
Part V: South Asia
Partitioned lands, divided sentiments on Jinnah
Jinnah, in a class of his own
The betrayed promise
Pakistan's military
Letter to a Pakistani diplomat
Pakistan: signposts to a police state
General Zia is now the law
Afghanistan
Bloody games
Stalemate at Jalalabad
In a land without music
Taliban's unlikely story
What after 'strategic depth'?
Jihad international, inc
Kashmir and India-Pakistan conflict
Beyond mutual destruction
India¿s obsession, our choice
When mountains die
No alternative to dialogue
Pakistan: the return of the generals
No, not again!
The signals soldiers pick
Shotgun governance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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