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With mounting pressure domestically and internationally, Xi might resort to a hyper-nationalistic path to deal with the legitimacy crisis

Power struggles, legitimacy crisis and improper US approach hamper the Afghan peace process.

Iran’s leaders invoke the rhetoric of unity and resistance to face Israel, but rising domestic fatigue and a fractured society limit the power of old mobilising narratives.

Various explanations have been proffered for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s renewed emphasis on ideology. The popular narratives attribute it to either Xi’s power ambitions, or a reaction rooted in his personal trauma during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Meanwhile, an alternative discourse projects the rise of ideology politics as a response to a possible legitimacy crisis facing the Communist Party of China (CPC). This paper weighs i

It goes without saying that Kashmir’s political candidates do not bear primary responsibility for this electoral legitimacy crisis.