Abroad, most of the research works on Pakistan are published in English. In other words, the use of English is the better way if a scholar wishes to be read all over the world. In a number of countries, scholars are not appreciated since they do not use English as academic language. I am therefore grateful that the Department of History, University of Punjab, provides me an opportunity to give ...

This paper considers Charles Tilly as an important but underappreciated theorist of nationalism. Tilly's theory of nationalism emerged from the "bellicist" strand of his earlier work on state-formation and later incorporated a concern with performance, stories, and cultural modeling. Yet despite the turn to culture in Tilly's later work, his theory of nationalism remained state-centered, materi...

The author discusses the theory of liberal nationalism of the prominent Canadian political theorist Will Kymlicka. According to Kymlicka, liberal nationalism is a necessary ingredient of developed liberal democracy, because social justice, deliberative democracy and individual freedom are most efficiently achieved within national political units. Kymlicka defines his theory as liberal culturali...

Abstract Based on a textual analysis of the selected works two writers from Turkey, Mehmed Uzun (1953–2007) and Mehmet Dicle (b.1977), as well interviews with Kurdish folklore collectors, this study focuses links between modern literature. Following Gregory Ashcroft's take heritage, I argue that writers’ approach to folkloric motives has evolved through impact growing literary experience, inspi...

This study deals with how the Kurdish question was evaluated from a radical Islamist perspective and aims to reveal approach adopted by Islamism in Turkey towards issue during 1980s 1990s. argues that there is direct relationship between ideas of Islamists on nation-state nationalism, they adopt question, which national an ethno-political content. Between 1980-2002, Turkey, categorically oppose...

The left-wing Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) began its violent insurgency campaign against the Turkish state in 1984, claiming that an independent Kurdistan should exist. However, the origins of this conflict can be traced back even further – to the inception of the Turkish Republic in 1923. This thesis begins by investigating the history of how the conflict between the Kurdish and Turkish poli...

BACKGROUND From 1986-9, the Kurdish population of Iraqi Kurdistan was subjected to an intense campaign of military action, and genocide by the central Iraq government. This campaign, referred to as the Anfal, included systematic attacks consisting of aerial bombings, mass deportation, imprisonment, torture, and chemical warfare. It has been estimated that around 200,000 Kurdish people disappear...

This article focuses on how Canada’s French minority in Quebec developed a nationalist discourse and used its provincial state to strengthen its economic and political status within the federation. It presents the parameters that define contemporary Quebec nationalism and its evolution over the past four decades. The first part of the article deals with nationalism during the ‘Quiet Revolution’...

Title of dissertation: MONUMENTS AS A NATIONAL PRACTICE: THE DILEMMAS OF LIBERAL NATIONALISM Avital Shein, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ronald Terchek Department of Government and Politics Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu Department of Government and Politics At first glance, the very idea of liberal nationalism appears to be an oxymoron. It is dedicated to univer...

The Kurds’ experience with modern mass violence is long and complex. Whereas Kurds lived under the Kurdish Emirates for centuries in pre-national conditions Ottoman Persian empires, advent of nationalism colonialism Middle East radically changed situation. World War I was a watershed most ethnic groups Empire, such as Kurds, some political minorities Armenians Assyrians suffered genocide – incl...