... Worldist discourse. In Iran, this relationship was driven by the radical factions of the Khomeinist regime, mostly the so-called Islamic Left. These factions, who controlled some government-affiliated organizations and agencies (e.g., the Revolutionary Guards), needed these foreign links to get...

..., and retaliatory attacks by different factions of Taliban fighters. Using uncertainty as an analytic and ethnographic concept, this article traces the social life of the rumors, conspiracy theories, and stories that float around this violence. It draws attention to their multiple and often contradictory effects...

...Carolien Stolte The Indian trade union movement of the interwar years was marked by an increasing tension between reformist and revolutionary methods. The two factions shared an internationalist idiom and internationalist aspirations, but their visions of the postimperialist world order were...

... by the Indian National Congress at Karachi in 1931. A key moment in anticolonial thought, the resolution was many things: an uneasy fusion of ideologies to assuage a range of divergent political interests; a maneuver to prevent another split of the nationalist movement into radical and moderate factions...

...Abel Majeed Hamdan Twenty years ago, religious trends were hardly visible in Palestine. Various factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were all secular. This is not the case today, as the religious discourse is overwhelming and the secular one is on the retreat. This so-called...

... in political factions that compete with one another for power.   The Islamic revolution did not result in the establishment of a political regime oriented of toward the past/traditionalism...

... and continuity. Authoritar- power structure. ian rule and autocratic reality went on to considerably While elite cleavages are sharp and the klites are undermine the democratic spirit in Pakistani society. highly factionalized, fragmentation, parochialism and The result was increasing tension...

... power in Iran today be- has pursued a robust and aggressive foreign policy. tween radical and modernist Islamists—two promi- The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have not only nent factions within the ruling clergy that disagree placed the Bush administration in conflict with long- profoundly...

... is histori- argumcnts can be identified that attempt to explain the cally non-existent. That faction of the petit-bourgeoisie military intervention in the political process of that Lindquist called the “nascent bourgeoisie’* is really Bangladcsh. First, Samuel Huntington’s idea of a a fraction...

.../ Barbara Slavin, “In Iran, Revolution Is a Presidential is a more fl exible (and arguably a more appropriate) iran/story/0,,1686793,00.html. Priority,” USA Today, 9 March 2006. term. Also see Sharough Akhavi, “Elite Factionalism...

... in Naga politics. But five years later, a group of dissenters launched the NSCN (National Socialist Council of Nagaland). It declared the Shillong Accord a sell-out and a betrayal of the Naga cause. The NSCN split in 1988 and the NSCN-IM became the dominant faction of the breakaway organization. 10 Led...

... again recon- clashes in May ), violent attacks and clashes structed as urgent problems for the Lebanese Comparative   between pro- and antigovernment factions in state to contend with. The reproblematization Tripoli, continuing...

... Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Moghadam Assaf . “ Failure and Disengagement in the Red Army Faction .” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 35 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 156 – 81 . Nihon Sekigun . Nihon Sekigun 20-nen no kiseki...

.... in the rural areas. A faction of the party also sup- Having been part of a ruling alliance for over ported General Zia’s military regime and its two years, the JI decided at this time to contest the “Islamization” schemes. The JUP derived its initial elections on its own and establish its electoral...

... Mujib and tool for establishing ideological hegemony over the the party, the radical faction left the AL in April 1972. other social classes during the colonial era was Bengali The student leaders who had played significant roles in nationalism, a shared identity as Bengalis opposed...

...     and the Hazara faction Hizb-i-Wahdat formed Laden. American diplomatic efforts against the Northern Alliance, which gained American the Taliban also led to UN economic sanctions Conflict support...

... the factionalism in Amanullah's court. This factionalism is nicely described through Amanullah's father-in-law Mahmud Tarzi, his uncle Nasrullah Khan, and his relative from the kindred Yahya Khel clan Muhammad Nadir Khan (later Shah), who personify progressive, conservative, and moderate factions, respectively. 5...

..., there was a split in the stating : party, with Burnham leading one faction and Jagan the other. Eventually the , . . that the case for the Burnham faction re- grouped under the dominant role of racial division name of the People's National Congress...

... elites had made conces- was the Ottoman empire’s Netam-e jedd, Tanzimat sions and compromises gradually integrating various and later the “Constitutional” system, which despite contending factions into an expanding national pol- their limitations had obviously strengthened the Ot- ity during...

... from among rule.6 Except for a brief experiment with parliamen- various competing factions. With no common po- tary democracy in the late 1950s, the Nepali litical ideology, the Cabinet was ill-equipped to government has been controlled by aristocratic command the bureaucracy (see Jha...