{"id":36461,"date":"2019-01-29T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=36461"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:24:37","slug":"najam-publishes-article-on-global-forces-shaping-pakistans-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/01\/29\/najam-publishes-article-on-global-forces-shaping-pakistans-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Publishes Article on Global Forces Shaping Pakistan&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Najam5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0published a recent article exploring the global forces shaping Pakistan&#8217;s future including the new world disorder, democracy redefined, regional tumult and digital dilemmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Najam&#8217;s article, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/herald.dawn.com\/news\/1398788\/seven-global-forces-shaping-pakistans-future\" class=\"story__link\">Seven Global Forces Shaping Pakistan&#8217;s Future<\/a>,&#8221; was published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/herald.dawn.com\">The Herald<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on January 28, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>From the text of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The most fundamental point that needs to be made right at the outset is this: Pakistan\u2019s future will be determined \u2013 as has always been the case and for all nations \u2013 by the decisions that Pakistan and Pakistanis will make. Everything else is context. Having said that, the rest of this essay is an enquiry into the global context in which these decisions might have to be made in the coming year and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The dazzling pace of political events and the bewildering intensity of political opinion and analysis in Pakistani print, electronic and social media can leave anyone short of breath. It also makes our analysis rather temporal. Most importantly, the \u2018in the moment\u2019 nature of discourse can divert attention from the longer-term global forces that form the context of at least some of our own political drama.<\/p>\n<p>This essay seeks to identify seven key global forces that are likely to be of consequence to politics and society all across the world, especially in Pakistan. First, however, an important distinction needs to be highlighted: this is not a list of the key challenges (or opportunities) that Pakistan will confront; it is, instead, a selection of the most significant global trends that are likely to define the context in which Pakistan will have to operate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/herald.dawn.com\/news\/1398788\/seven-global-forces-shaping-pakistans-future\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just 1.5% (3.3M) Pakistanis are on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>. Who knows how many are fake.<br \/>\n\u067e\u06be\u0631 \u06cc\u06c1 \u0634\u0648\u0631 \u06a9\u06cc\u0648\u06ba\u060c \u0648\u0627\u0648\u06cc\u0644\u06c1 \u06a9\u06cc\u0648\u06ba\u061f<\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bramerz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bramerz<\/a>, more detail and my argument about why our &#8220;digital bark&#8221; is more impressive than our &#8220;byte&#8221; in my review essay in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeraldPakistan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HeraldPakistan<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GmRE7Lzb1C\">https:\/\/t.co\/GmRE7Lzb1C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aIS86wikLD\">pic.twitter.com\/aIS86wikLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adil Najam \u0639\u0627\u062f\u0644 \u0646\u062c\u0645 (@AdilNajam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdilNajam\/status\/1090300972226789378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>\u00a0is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Learn more about him here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Adil Najam discusses the global forces shaping Pakistan&#8217;s future including the new world disorder, democracy redefined, regional tumult and digital dilemmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11087,1720,8859,1697,11104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions\/36465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}