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...
Renaissance in the Gulf: America’s Bastille or China’s Awakening?
Muhammad Sharreh Qazi
“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will move the world.”
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Trump’s Space Force and the Fate of The Outer Space Treaty
Waqas Iqbal
The United States of America has always introduced novel initiatives like nuclear weapons, NATO, Missile Defense Shield, quarantine etc., in world politics which, in turn have spawned competition...
Of Sanctions and Defiance
Rabia Akhtar
The U.S. non-proliferation policy utilizes economic, political and military sanctions enshrined in non-proliferation legislation to deter proliferation behavior in countries around the globe. Three laws –– the Symington...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests: Twenty Years On
Salman Bashir
Pakistan’s nuclear tests on 28 and 30 May 1998 marked a watershed in the nation’s quest for security. The devices tested conformed to weapon configuration capable of delivery....
The Youth Development Index in South Asia: A Human Security Risk
Ayesha Khalid
South Asia is home to almost 30% of the entire world’s youth which, if developed, can alter the fate of the region. Usually, a country’s population development is...
The Militarization of Outer Space
Tughral Yamin
As a young boy, in the days of black and white TV, I would wait for each new episode of the sci-fi serial Star Trek. Each journey of...
Hybrid or No Hybrid, War is War
Rizwan Zeb
Caesar had his legions, Napoleon had his armies. Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery.
Who has not heard of “hybrid war”? Perhaps, someone who has never...
Responsibility and Deterrence in South Asia
Salma Shaheen
The notion of responsibility is the new black in the emerging nuclear world order that predominantly aims at reducing nuclear arsenal and minimizing their salience in security policies...
Is India Aspiring to become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds?
Nidaa Shahid
Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Indian Scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the first nuclear detonation by the U.S. in 1945 when he said “Now I am become Death the...
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The Smokescreen of Indian Uranium Deficiency
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Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has remained in the thick of things in every discussion and analysis related to India in the past few...
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Pakistan’s Kashmir Challenge
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By the time a Kashmiri child born today in Srinagar turns five years old, he will be part of a Hindu majority Jammu...