A Page from History : Ode to Badaber
Now that the time has come to bury Badaber, it is ironically fitting that no effort to reconstruct its life can be made at Rawalpindi. Its early days are...
The S-400 Deal and Pakistan’s Quest for Strategic Stability
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The 20-year old nuclear dyad in South Asia has been typified by the action-reaction model, whereby arch-rivals, India and Pakistan have buttressed their deterrence mix and...
Review Report: CPEC, A Transformation in Motion
Rabia Akhtar
Recently, ace China watcher, Andrew Small, authored report on the current status of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC). At a time when geo-economics is challenging the preponderance of geopolitics,...
India’s Low Nuclear Threshold
Sameer Ali Khan
Revision of the Indian No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons policy has been under significant discussion since 2014 once BJP announced its intent to review and...
Mapping India’s Project Akhand Bharat
Saima Aman Sial
India’s rapid drift towards extremism, as evidenced by the alarming rise of Hindu nationalism at home and irredentist proclivities in...
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...
Interview with Dr. Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Affairs...
Climate and Security:
“Water is Pakistan’s Biggest Security Challenge”
Prof. Adil Najam is the founding Dean of Boston University’s School of International Affairs, the Pardee School. He was the former Vice...
Book Review | China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Author: Daniel S. Markey
ISBN: 978-0190680190
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
In his path-breaking book “Destined for War”, Graham Allison wrote: “China enjoys such superiority in its balance of economic...
Strategic Stability Challenges in South Asia
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Stability is a contested intellectual construct with no consensus on its precise meaning. As noted by Patrick A. McCarthy, “it is overly simplistic and, more than that,...
Israel, Hamas, and the Two State Solution: A Story of Levant’s Tragedy
Muhammad Shareh Qazi
The ongoing spell of hostilities between Hamas and Israel is diminishing all the prospect of peace in the Levant. The continuous...