The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad
By: edited by Carollee Bengelsdorf, Margaret Cerullo, and Yogesh Chandrani ; foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Contributors: Bengelsdorf, Carollee.; Cerullo, Margaret.; Chandrani, Yogesh.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
Subjects: World politics -- 20th century.; Eastern question.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Revolutionary warfare and counterinsurgency; title: Revolutionary warfare: how to tell when the rebels have won; title: Radical but wrong; title: Counterinsurgency; title: Epilogue: the lessons of Vietnam; title: PLO and ANC: painful contrasts; title: Iran's landmark revolution: fifteen years later; title: The making of the Battle of Algiers; title: Algeria began badly: remembering Sidi Mohammed; title: Part II: Third world politics: pathologies of power, pathologies of resistance; title: From potato sack to potato mash: the contemporary crisis of the Third World; title: Postcolonial systems of power; title: The neofascist state: notes on the pathology of power in the Third World; title: War of the rentier states; title: Islam and politics; title: Roots of the religious right; title: Part III: On the cusp of the cold war: Portents of a new century; title: The cold war from the standpoint of its victims; title: Political culture and foreign policy: notes on American interventions in the Third World; title: The cold war from the standpoint of its victims; title: Yet again a new Nixon; title: Cracks in the western world (view): questions for the US and Europe; title: After the cold war: worlds of pain; title: At cold war's end: a world of pain; title: Terrorism: theirs and ours; title: A time to remember; title: Welcome war in Bosnia; title: America's Gulf war: neglected perspectives; title: The hundred-hour war; title: Covering the Middle East; title: After the winter bombs; title: Part IV: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: colonization in the era of decolonization; title: Pioneering in the nuclear age: an essay on Israel and the Palestinians; title: 'A world restored' revisited: American diplomacy in the Middle East; title: An essay on reconciliation; title: On Arab bankruptcy; title: The public relations of ethnocide; title: Peace of the weak; title: Beyond Arafat's antics; title: An address in Gaza; title: King Hussein's dual legacy; title: Part V: South Asia; title: Partitioned lands, divided sentiments on Jinnah; title: Jinnah, in a class of his own; title: The betrayed promise; title: Pakistan's military; title: Letter to a Pakistani diplomat; title: Pakistan: signposts to a police state; title: General Zia is now the law; title: Afghanistan; title: Bloody games; title: Stalemate at Jalalabad; title: In a land without music; title: Taliban's unlikely story; title: What after 'strategic depth'?; title: Jihad international, inc; title: Kashmir and India-Pakistan conflict; title: Beyond mutual destruction; title: India¿s obsession, our choice; title: When mountains die; title: No alternative to dialogue; title: Pakistan: the return of the generals; title: No, not again!; title: The signals soldiers pick; title: Shotgun governance.