Welcome to Left-Right Systems. The purpose of this blog is to analyze issues in international political economy and general geopolitics (with occasional forays into political philosophy.) I appreciate constructive and critical feedback on all of my work.

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Apr 26, 20205 min read

Reformers From the Ruins: Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani: Reformation in the Middle East

What if I told you that the Islamic Republic, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda all trace their ideological roots to the same man? And...

Apr 26, 202010 min read

I hear people talk about the importance of reading non-Western centric history so often that it’s become cliche. That said, Pankaj...

Apr 26, 20204 min read

While I picked up Julia Lovell’s “Maoism: A Global History" specifically to learn about the export of Chinese communism, one of the most...

Apr 26, 202010 min read

Julia Lovell’s “Maoism: A Global History” is an attempt to recenter the role of Maoist China in the Cold War, and to trace Mao Zedong’s...

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