POL 100 - Spring 2015 LUMS

POL 100, It has been a distinct pleasure getting to know all 58 of you over the course of this semester. In this final post, I want to pr...

So i wanted to give my response on the notion of the “Tragedy of the Commons”. Although i do not consider myself a pessimist but in this c...

The tragedy of the commons is a circumstance where there is over consumption of a specific item/ service in light of the fact that normal i...

Being a Management student, I had absolutely no idea about what pol sci even encompassed. I had every conviction that this course would be ...

I am very happy when writing this blog. I did not know the semester would pass so fast. We learnt so much from this semester. This course i...

The reason I switched my major and the reason for taking Pol 100 was solely based on my infatuation with a political science instructor I t...

I took this course because I had to, in order be able to complete my POL cores by the end of this semester. I had no concern which instruc...

POL 100 has been unarguably the most enlightening experience I have had in my two years at LUMS. The reason: it has been atypical. Unlike ...

Globally, it is witnessed that there is a large segment of the world’s population that, due to inaccessibility to education and exposure, ...

There is prevalent discourse, especially amongst educated liberal circles, regarding the greater role women must be granted in society thr...

 This contention has been pervasive among the two organizations Shia and Sunni principally. It is concur that these outfits have been made i...

This course offered introduction to the concepts, terms, theories, and methods used in the discipline of political science. Being an econ...

I still remember that day when I was unable to find myself a suitable course for the spring semester because the enrollment had ended for al...

She may be looking at us mourning, with her restless soul wishing for one more chance to do something that was left to be done, to fulfill o...

As this semester draws to a close and with it Sir Nausherwan's tenure at Lums , we can all safely say that this class was one of the m...

I believe one of the biggest reasons as to why international conflict is a recurring element in the world of today is due to the e...

After the killing of Sabeen Mahmud, a social rights activit, the role of intelligence agencies has again become a hot t...

One of the most intensely debated topics over the past three weeks, one that everyone in LUMS has heard about; why did the ISI cancel Mama ...

The Last Blog: Acknowledging Atrocities of the Past The subject which I’ll talk about in my last blog post is the need to acknowledge a...

Media; perhaps the only enemy Pakistan cannot defeat with the threat of nuking. Pakistan is a culturally rich state, drowning in nationalis...

It is notable that this topic was a part of Political science, simple because this accentuates the dire issue of misused common resources. B...

Garrett Hardin discusses that we only focuses on the technical solution of a problem even if these technical solutions make situation worst...

In the previous class, we discussed the issue of Balochistan and how time and again people in this country are silenced when they speak of s...

There was a very elaborate discussion in class in regard to why intellectuals are always targeted in a conflict. The answer was simple: Int...

After reading this letter by JogendraNath Mandal, a leader of the Hindu Scheduled Caste members I was appalled. While Pakistan has not ...

A discourse on morals was fairly due. When religion is brought into the fight, a discourse on morals is due. And since one of the direst p...

The United Nations is criticized by many for various reasons, the most recurring one being, the veto-power held by the five permanent membe...

Humans are on their way to develop this world, modernize it and make this world a global village. But in the attempt to do that, we have lo...

The content and teaching methodologies employed in this course weren't quite what I had in mind when I absentmindedly put it in my prov...

Session 24: Is state  our protector? In  political  science, state  defined  as an organization aims to wok for the well being of the com...

Michael Green, Why We Shouldn't Judge a Country By Its GDP, Ted, 4-22-15 http://ideas.ted.com/why-we-shouldnt-judge-a-country-by-its-g...

Asad Hashmi, Interactive: Karachi's Killing Fields, English Al Jazeera, 9-6-12 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/08/20...

Since childhood, we usually use to hear about the different aids which other countries were giving to Pakistan as a form of gift and help t...

Imtiaz Ali and Mohammad Raza, KU professor shot dead in Karachi, 4-29-15, Dawn http://www.dawn.com/news/1178894/ku-professor-shot-dead-in-...

This has been a roller coaster ride of learning. From the day first when I remember I asked sir about the definition of politics. He answer...

Ethnic conflicts usually emerge between groups that are not in agreement with each other .They are more about how one group dominate the ot...

Pakistan has had a curious history of bedding the most unsavoury of geopolitical actors. From Afghan Taliban to the Kashmiri mujahideen, Pa...

Thinking is important. It is also highly underrated. In our cataclysmic routines, where do we draw the line? Where do we pause and, for an ...

A few weeks back the Pakistani parliament respectively declined the Saudi request to join its coalition against the Houthi rebels in Yemen....

 For as long as Pakistan has existed, the military and the bureaucracy have controlled the governance of the nation and old the reins of po...

Xari Jalil, Violence against women 'most rampant' in Punjab, Dawn, 2-13-15 http://www.dawn.com/news/1163308/violence-against-women...

The reading spoke of sovereignty, an inherent right of each state that protects it from foreign interference in domestic matters, as the p...

Conflicts of ideas and interest are the main reason why violence prevails. States tend to be aggressive for what they believe in, and thru...

Throughout our course we have discussed various political ideologies and concepts. Simultaneously we have tried to apply these theories to ...

The independence of judiciary is a topic, which is widely discussed since the long march to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudry. Th...