The processes of democracy and development usually tend to generate new tensions and fresh patterns of power continually. In a participatory democracy like ours committed to planned economic development and distributive social justice, interregional and inter-communal, and oftentimes sectarian rivalaries and petry jealousies for the loaves and fishes of office and similar other advantages are inevitable. Likewise when regional and sub-regional forces become more ...
The Camp David Accords and the process of normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel constitute a dividing line in contemporary West Asian History and Politics. If the Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel helped to ease tension along the Red Sea it also led to the Intensification of tensions between Israel and Syria and Egypt and other Arab States. Egypt which had till then been regarded as the leader of the Arabs and their spearhead in the struggle ...
No questions perhaps used to be asked more anxiously and more consistently during the early years of our independence than those relating to the advisability and future of parliamentary institutions in India after Nehru disappeared from the political scene. The political behaviour of the masses, particularly the General Elections of 1967 and 1971, and the smooth, orderly transfer of power at the Centre and in the States, however, seemed to have given what ...