Pakistan’s Peace Narrative and Pak-U.S. Relations: Time for a Revisionist Discourse

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery  Doha, a city in the thick of geopolitics of the GCC since 2017, played host to several rounds of talks between the United States and the...
Playing down the Middle East

Pakistan Playing Down the Middle East

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery For Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, a jam packed sports stadium outside Pakistan reverberating with chants for him, is nothing new. However, when such a thing...
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The Geopolitics of Sri Lanka’s Crisis

Kashif Hussain  On October 26, 2018, Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sirisena also dissolved the legislature and called for...

US-Iran Conflict: The War Saudis Need but Don’t Want

Ahmed Quraishi On the morning of May 16th, the world woke up to a Saudi newspaper editorial calling for a “calculated surgical airstrike” against Iran. The Arab News editorial was blunt....
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Spoilers in Pakistan-Iran Relations

Hamzah Rifaat Hussain More than a dozen personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were recently kidnapped in a pre-dawn raid along the Pakistan-Iran border. With the Balochistan province to...
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The 20th Anniversary of South Asia’s Overt Nuclearisation

Najmuddin A. Shaikh The month of May this year marked the completion of two decades since India and Pakistan carried out nuclear tests and made the South Asian sub-continent publicly...
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Feminism, Foreign policy and Hope

Maria Bastos The study of foreign policy is currently facing important challenges mostly associated with forecasting the world order. Those challenges imply an imbalance between two nexuses operating at different...

Pakistan Politico Interview with Amb. Riffat Masood, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of...

Amb. Riffat Masood is Pakistan's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a veteran diplomat, Amb.Riffat has served Pakistan at important appointments at the Foreign Office and Pakistan's...

Debating Comprehensive Security in Pakistan

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery Much before becoming the country’s premier, Imran Khan, delivering a keynote address at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, said: “food security would be a big issue...
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CPEC & The War of Perceptions

Eram Ashraf The China Pakistan Economic Corridor is now approaching the end of its first phase, with many projects involving infrastructure and energy needs near completion. Talks have already begun...

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Understanding China’s Growing Influence in Central Asia

Afnan A. Ghaffar A state’s geography has a direct bearing on its foreign policy as it brings both opportunities...

Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Power, Presence, and Partnerships

Rabia Akhtar https://asia.fes.de/news/geopolitical-competition-indo-pacific Take a look at the fascinating map depicting the...

Making Sense of Middle East’s Conflict Dynamics

Mariam Shah Since October 7, 2023, the Middle East has seen a surge in conflicts and geopolitical tensions....
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