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{"title":"<b>India-Pakistan Relations Post-Article 370: Security Implications and Diplomatic Tensions</b>","authors":"Ammara Tariq Cheema, Rahat","doi":"10.63468/jpsa.3.3.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.63468/jpsa.3.3.57","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian government's Article 370 revocation in August 2019 did a significant constitutional and geopolitical significantly impacted on the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. This article explores the prospective security risks and diplomatic tensions of the summary noted resulting from this abolishment and places a review of why India and Pakistan view this action as they do and their respective responses. India sees this process of taking back Article 370 as an internal event related to regional assimilation and terrorism. According to Pakistan it is violation of international law in dispute with India's territorial integrity and an action that puts regional stability in jeopardy. Informed by historical context, this manuscript will review select military-strategic, cross-border militant, and international-diplomatic contexts in how the post-Article 370 context is started to shape bilateral relations between these two nuclear powers. Another area of focus will be on the role of key international players, China and the United States' involvement in Kashmir and the possibility of further escalation. Although any significant chance of escalation continues to loom large, it will conclude by suggesting that while direct confrontation has been averted, passive strategic ambiguity, strategic diplomatic isolation, and unresolved nationalist grievances continue to operate as deterrents to any chance of peace in the South Asian region.","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"3 3","pages":"855-869"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.journalpsa.com.pk/index.php/JPSA/article/download/256/272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<b>Role of Muslim Collaborators in Socio-Economic Transformation of District Gujrat During 1849-1947</b>","authors":"Nayyer Abbas, Nimra Nisar Cheema, Wazir Ali","doi":"10.63468/jpsa.3.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.63468/jpsa.3.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the role of Muslim collaborators in socio-economic and political transformation of district Gujrat under the British rule. It argues that the British government’s political control through ‘collaboration’ significantly influenced District Gujrat’s socio-economic transformation from 1849 to 1947. The cooperation of local elites was instrumental in strengthening the British control in Punjab. The case study draws on sources from Punjab Archives Lahore, district records, and official family documents. These sources highlight not only the significance of the District Gujrat in annexation of Punjab but also the role of local collaborators in establishing British rule.","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"3 3","pages":"22-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journalpsa.com.pk/index.php/JPSA/article/download/190/202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147884898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AN ANAYLSIS OF INDIA PAKISTAN WATER CONFLICTS","authors":"Noor ul Huda","doi":"10.63468/jpsa.3.2.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.63468/jpsa.3.2.32","url":null,"abstract":"The article seeks to address the water conflict between India and Pakistan and its implications for relations between the two opposite states. This dissertation further sheds light on the steps taken to find a solution to this conflict and then the issue was resolved through the “Indus water treaty in 1960”, which was a temporary solution. This work examines disputes over the construction of dams or reservoirs on rivers across borders, such as the construction of “Baghliar dam”, “Kishanganga project” and “Wuller Barrage” from India and further examines the Pakistan’s response to these Projects. This study also sheds light on India’s response to the Diamer Bhasha dam being constructing by Pakistan. The focus of this research is on the Baghliar, Kishanganga and Diamer Bhasha Projects. The method employed in the proposed research is analytical one and also with qualitative approach. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources. This study shows that if the water dispute is not solved then it will be catastrophic. An early resolution of this dispute is essential for better relations between both bilateral sates.","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"3 2","pages":"546-558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journalpsa.com.pk/index.php/JPSA/article/download/153/165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life without Money","authors":"T. Trainer","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt183p6xc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p6xc","url":null,"abstract":"LIFE WITHOUT MONEY Anitra Nelson and Franz Zimmerman, Eds. Pluto Press, 2011, 244 pp. The GFC, the European 'de-growth' movement, Occupy Wall St, and the Transition Towns movement, all seem to be part of a long overdue surge in discontent with the unacceptability of the system and the quest for alternatives. Thus this is a timely book, reconsidering some classic themes in a contemporary context focused on alternatives to money. Eleven chapters explore a range of interesting and important themes, loosely divided into critiques of capitalism and consumerism, and activism and experiments. Among the topics are non-market socialism, self management, the labour credit system of the Twin Oaks commune, the money-free economy of Spanish squatters, the elimination of work and wages, and the gift economy. There are helpful introductory and concluding chapters by the editors. Although all chapters are clear and easily understood by the non-specialist reader, the discussions are also likely to be valuable refreshers for professional students of political economy. The book's central thesis is that a satisfactory society requires the scrapping of markets, the state and money. The emphasis on the third of these propositions is particularly distinctive and debatable. It is obvious that many of the most absurd and outrageous aspects of consumer-capitalist society are directly due to the monetary system, especially its taken for granted assumption that money must take the form of credit which has to be repaid with interest, and which has to be issued by private banks. But the key question is, are the resulting effects due to the use of money or just due to the form of money used in consumer-capitalist society? Could a different form retain the advantages of money while avoiding these effects? My main doubts regarding the book are to do with whether the case given for the need to scrap all forms of money is convincing. I firmly believe that we are entering an era of intense and irremediable scarcity brought on by resource and ecological problems, in which the rich countries in particular will be jolted into a scramble for radically different social systems. These will not be characterised by heavy industrialisation, globalisation, economic growth or affluent lifestyles, and they will have to at least heavily control markets if not entirely eliminate them. The new local economies will not function satisfactorily unless they are mostly under participatory social control at the level of the neighbourhood committee and town meeting, with a relatively minor role for the remnant 'state'. …","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68704476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in Globalizing Justice","authors":"Elisabeth M. Riedl","doi":"10.5860/choice.47-6960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.47-6960","url":null,"abstract":"Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in Globalizing Justice. Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall Ashgate, Farnham, 2010 This book, as the title suggests, tackles an emerging research agenda in identifying and examining 'experiments in globalizing justice'. It embarks on an ambitious agenda, seeking to critically examine distinct but also increasingly linked ethical initiatives like 'fair trade' and 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR), problematising the role and responsibilities of civil society, businesses, mobilised workers and the State within this discussion. These actors and initiatives, are subjected to a broad and challenging question: 'How can production and trade within transnational supply chains be governed effectively so as to protect core human and social rights and advance broader principles of justice within a global economy?' (p. 5). While this question risks being overly ambitious in scope and may overwhelm the reader initially, it is indeed pertinent for an examination of the promises and potential of initiatives such as CSR, which are gaining increasing leverage as market-based alternatives to broad-based structural change. In the context of proliferating social justice initiatives, spanning public and private, government and non-governmental actors, from corporate to civic led initiatives, to the domain of government regulation--the key question raised by the editors is a theoretical one--where should responsibility lie? The editors, Macdonald and Shelley (2010), develop and outline a conceptual framework for examining this question in the introductory chapter to this book. They use the metaphor of 'embedding' (drawing on the theoretical work of a range of scholars, notably Polanyi 1944) to frame the discussion and analysis of the ethical initiatives examined, with the argument that these serve as 'attempt(s) to re-embed capitalism in social justice norms' (p. 7). As such, the editors position these 'experiments in globalizing justice' at the interface between market imperatives and the social justice values that markets arguably reject (akin to Hayek's 1976 argument). Essentially, 're-embedding', for the editors, assumes that a process of 'dis-embedding' has occurred (a phenomenon traced to the rise of neoliberalism from the 1970s, p. 9). Some readers may question the stance taken by the editors and the literature they consult, as the process of dis-embedding which they refer to could, alternatively, reflect a contestation over social values rather than their expulsion. The conceptual framework of (dis)embedding raises two key tasks for the authors: to identify 'ethically defensible norms', by which standards capitalism should be regulated, and; to identify and evaluate the institutional arrangements which are necessary for a process of 're-embedding' to occur (p. 8). The admittedly 'hazy' 'yardstick' by which they seek to evaluate the capacity of the initiatives examined is through the concept of ","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71130114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Crises and Policy Change in the Early 1980s: A Four Country Comparison","authors":"J. Hogan","doi":"10.21427/D7S201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21427/D7S201","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of economic crises on macroeconomic policies in the United States (US), Mexico, Ireland and Sweden at the start of the 1980s is discussed. The independence of politics and economics is highlighted and helps in the understanding of the process of policy change.","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67748908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism","authors":"T. Ewins","doi":"10.5860/choice.46-2207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-2207","url":null,"abstract":"Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Jim Stanford Pluto Press, London, 2008, pp. 350, RRP $42.00 Economics for Everyone is an important new offering by Jim Stanford a progressive economist who works for the Canadian Auto Workers union. Amongst the plethora of academic texts concerning political economy, Economics for Everyone is notable for its general use of accessible language. Also commendable is the book's systemic treatment of economic issues of concern to ordinary workers, activists, and citizens. Jim Stanford's book addresses essential questions. In whose interests does the economic system work? What is the personal role and stake of workers and capitalists in the system? What are the values and assumptions underlying the system? Can we trust the expertise of professional economists who are the high priests of competition, deregulation and privatisation? Stanford observes that most economists 'fully believe that competition, inequality, economic advantage and the accumulation of private wealth are central, natural and desirable features of a vibrant, efficient economy' (p 3). Ideology, however, infuses their arguments. As he argues, 'the elitism of economics disempowers and silences the voices of non-experts'. The 'opinion makers' imply that people who question neoliberal orthodoxies such as free trade 'must either be acting from ignorance, or else are pursuing some narrow vested interest' (p 2). This is what Stanford sets out to challenge. The process of empowerment begins with becoming aware of our own interests. This awareness then needs to be complemented with an understanding of how the economy works and how (conceivably) it can be transformed. Finally, there is the matter of combining such knowledge with values, so that we might propose a real alternative--argued for on the basis of both common interest and moral right. Capitalism Deconstructed In his preliminary analysis, Stanford portrays a system based on the production and distribution of goods and services. In addition to production for the market, there is the 'domestic' economic sector, comprising household work that does not factor into most measured economic activity, but which is crucial to social reproduction, quality of life and our very survival. To this category may also be added the important area of voluntary work (pp 20-21). Later in the text other aspects are considered: innovation, economic growth driven by the profit dynamic, inequality, class struggle, and cycles of 'boom and bust' (pp 34-35). The foundations laid down by Stanford provide the basis for an analysis that gathers in pace and complexity as the book progresses. He notes that the word 'capitalism' is rarely used in popular discourse. To name the system, and thus identify it as relative to others, is considered 'radical' (p 5). Stanford, however, considers the economy with a historian's eye to 'the long term'. The capitalist system can be understood as arising from the 18","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71122272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keynes and His Battles","authors":"G. Dow","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-6291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-6291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"60 1","pages":"144-154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71121228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Three arguments for pluralism in economics","authors":"J. King","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1gxp77q.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1gxp77q.23","url":null,"abstract":"For most mainstream economists, of course, there is only one way to do economics. It requires the construction of a model, collection of relevant data and subsequent testing. The model itself must be consistent with the fundamental principle of methodological individualism: that is to say, it must be based on the assumption of optimising behaviour by rational agents. The tests must emjlloy the most advanced econometric techniques rather than or at least in addition to descriptive statistics. For the defenders of mainstream economics these simple rules are what make it a science, which is envied and increasingly imitated by the practitioners of less favoured disciplines in the areas of management and social studies (Lazear, 2000).","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68717860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The political economy of human rights","authors":"Tim Anderson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt18fsb9g.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18fsb9g.9","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary political economy can make an important contribution to the human rights debates which have come to dominate political relations over the past half century. These debates hide a wide variety of political agendas. Rights arguments often indicate ethical deficiencies, and sometimes help adjudicate social disputes but not always. Defming rights does not necessarily resolve and may even aggravate social conflicts (Ignatieff 2000: 16). Further, an abstract portrayal of formal, individual rights may obscure actual rights in a particular social situation. At the same time, human rights have become a unique moral and political consensus. Dictators and democrats alike now rely on some variant of rights arguments, as the touchstone of their political legitimacy. This, of course, only adds to the confusion of meanings.","PeriodicalId":43895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Political Economy","volume":"8 1","pages":"200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68706809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}