Is India Aspiring to become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds?
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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...
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...
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Mujahid Kamran
It was on September 11, 2001, that the event known as 9/11 took place. On this date, three buildings, WTC1, WTC 2 and WTC 7, located in the...
Persistent Conflict between NWSs: South Asia vs the Korean Peninsula
Christoph Bluth
It has been a long-standing axiom in International Relations that nuclear powers do not go to war with each other. This belief is particularly strong among advocates of...
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...
Post COVID-19 World Order: How Different Will It Be?
Adil Sultan
The COVID-19 pandemic, termed as a “nuclear war in slow motion”, has exposed the global leadership crisis and the vulnerability of the international community to deal with the...
UNSC’s Report and Pakistan’s TTP Challenge
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On February 3, 2021, pursuant to Resolutions 1526 (2004) and 2253 (2015), the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) issued its twenty-seventh report on terrorism. The report acknowledged...
Pulwama-Balakot Crisis: The Evolving Strategic Discourse in South Asia
Adil Sultan
Pulwama crisis was the most serious military engagement between India and Pakistan since the Kargil conflict of 1999. Despite its relatively short lifecycle, there was a real danger...
Space Security Trilemma in South Asia
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The peculiar nature of bilateral relations between the United States and China in space is the triggering point of a space security trilemma in South...
Why Turkey Cannot Save the Day in Afghanistan
Rupert Stone
As the US withdraws from Afghanistan, Turkey is stepping up to the plate. In April, it agreed to host a peace...
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