Ishtiaq Ahmed (political Scientist) - Publications (selection)

Publications (selection)

• 2012, 34 entries in the Oxford Companion to Pakistani History edited by Ayesha Jalal, Karachi: Oxford University Press.

• 2012, 'The India-Pakistan Imbroglio', FPRC Journal, Focus: India and South Asia, J-9-2012 (i), New Delhi: Foreign Policy Research Centre.

• 2012, 'The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch' in Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat (eds.), Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

• 2011, ‘The Politics of Culture in an Ideological State’, Sohbet, Journal of Contemporary Arts and Culture, Issue No. Two, Lahore: Joint publication of The National College of Arts and Oneninetwo.

• 2010, 'The Rise and Fall of the Left and the Maoist Movements in Pakistan', India Quarterly, 66/3, September, 2010.

• 2010,‘The Pakistan Islamic State Project: A Secular Critique’ in Michael Heng Siam-Heng and Ten Chin Liew (eds), State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishers Co. Pte. Ltd.

• 2009, 'Politicized Religion in Illiberal South Asian Contexts: The Cases of India and Pakistan' in South Asian Review, Volume 30, Number 1, September/October 2009.

• 2009, ‘Radicalization and De-Radicalization in Singapore and Pakistan: A Comparison’ in A PIPS Research Journal Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 2, Jul-Sep 2009, Number 3, Islamabad: Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS).

• 2009, ‘The Spectre of Islamic Fundamentalism over Pakistan (1947-2007)' in Rajshree Jetly (ed.), Pakistan in Regional and Global Politics, London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge.

• 2008, ‘European and Indian Nation-building: The Position of Religious Communities in India’ in Jayanta Kumar Ray and Arpita Basu Roy (eds.), The Roles of Religious Communities in India, Stockholm: Institute of Development Policy and Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute.

• 2008, ‘Religious Minorities in the European Union and Pakistan: Historical Comparisons’ in Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Maqsudul Hasan Nuri, Brig (retd) Muneer Mahmud and Khalid Hussain (eds.), The Political Role of Religious Communities in Pakistan, Islamabad: Islamabad Policy and Research Institute.

• 2008, ‘Pakistan’s National Identity’ in International Review of Modern Sociology, Volume 34, No. 1. Spring 2008.

• 2007, Group Representation in a Democracy’, in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 73–90. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University.

• 2007, ‘The Cultural and Political heritage of Sri Lanka’, in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 119–130. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University 2007.

• 2006, "The Lahore Effect", in Seminar, No 567, November 2006, Delhi, India, pp. 29–37.

• 2006, "Globalisering och fredsrörelsen i diasporan: Provsprängningarna av kärnvapen i Sydasien 1998" in Maria Borgström and Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga (eds.), Gränsöverskridande identiteter i globaliseringens tid: Ungdomar, migration och kampen för fred, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2006, pp. 169–196.

• 2006, "Punjabi identities: Before and after the 1947 Partition of the Punjab", in Troubled Times. Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes. SDPI/Sama Editorial and Publishing Services, 2006. pp. 374–390 (pdf)

• 2005, "Globalization and Free Trade", in Harris Ben Munawar (ed.) The RAVI 2005, Vol. XCII, pp. 47–48 (pdf)

• 2005, The Politics of Group Rights. The State and Multiculturalism (ed), University Press of America.

• 2004, "Pakistan, Democracy, Islam and Secularism: A Phantasmagoria of Conflicting Muslim Aspirations", in Oriente Moderno, No. 1/2004, vol. XXIII, (LXXXIV). The article is available as a Word document.

• 2004 'Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First Person Acoounts', in Ian Talbot & Shinder Thandi (eds), People on The Move, Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration, Oxford University Press.

• 2004, 'Contours of Regional Cooperation: Peoples-to-Peoples Contacts and Parliamentary Initiatives', in Searching for Common Ground in South Asia. A Report of a CPAS-SIPSIR.

• 2004, Workshop 'New Initiatives for Risk Reduction on Unsettled Asian Borders', Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University, 2004.

• 2003,'Muslim Nationalism, Pakistan and the Rise of Fundamentalism', Research Report 4, February 2003, Department of Oriental Languages, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 24 sidor, 2003.

• 2002, 'Comments' (on two papers, presented at a seminar on East Timor, Stockholm, 21 May 2002. East Timor nationbuilding in the 21st Century. Stockholm 2002.

• 2002,The Kashmir Dispute, December 2002, in Politologen.

• 2002, 'The Fundamentalist Dimension in the Pakistan Movement' in Friday Times, Lahore, November 22, 2002

• 2002, 'Looking Backwards into the Future: A Critique of Islamism Modernism’ in Journal of Futures Studies,Vol. 7, No. 2.

• 2002, 'Globalisation and Human Rights in Pakistan' (published in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 9, Number 1, January–June 2002.
• 2002, The 1947 Partition of India (published in Asian Ethnicity, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2002).
• 2002, ‘Pågår krig mellan islam och kristendom?’ in Folk och Försvar, No. 2, 2002.