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US Withdrawal from the INF & Future of the Non-Proliferation Regime
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One after the other, Trump administration has been leaving international organisations, breaking deals and withdrawing from international arms control treaties. The list includes, US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific...
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With Western and Gulf Arab powers investing hundreds of billions of dollars into toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power, it seems that the tragic war that has...
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Puruesh Chaudhary is a futures researcher and strategic narrative professional. She has a professional master’s degree in International Negotiation and Policymaking from Institut De Hautes Études Internationales Et Du Développement,...
The S-400 Deal and Pakistan’s Quest for Strategic Stability
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Book Review | REIMAGINING PAKISTAN: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Author: Husain Haqqani
ISBN:978-9352777693
Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2018
Saeed Afridi
The premise of Husain Haqqani’s latest book “Re-imagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State” is that Pakistan is an ill-defined, inexactly contrived, economically unviable...
India, Russia and the S-400 Deal
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Book Review | The Blind Eye: U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan From Ford to...
Author : Rabia Akhtar
ISBN:978-969-7813-01-8
Publisher: University of Lahore Press, 2018
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