Deterrence Stability in South Asia: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Amina Afzal
India and Pakistan’s seaward nuclearization has received great scholarly attention off late. The thrust of recent literature on the issue focuses on whether an at-sea deterrent has bolstered...
Strategic Stalemate in Afghanistan
Jaweria Waheed
Seventeen years of war in Afghanistan have resulted in a strategic stalemate plagued with a stalled peace process. Afghanistan is strategically important and is a fulcrum of power...
Rationalizing Pakistan’s Quest for a Sea-based Deterrent Force
Saima Aman Sial
On 9th January, 2017, Pakistan test fired a sea-variant of Babur cruise missile, with a range of 450 km, from an underwater movable platform. The ISPR Press...
Hybrid Warfare: Shielding Stratagem
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Global politics is fluid and dynamic.Nations are combating identical and contrasting traditional and non-traditional security challenges. Security analysts are calling a mix of these challenges as Hybrid Warfare....
Agni-V: A Weapon of Instability
Tanzeela Khalil
Agni V is India’s longest range, 5000 km, solid fuel propelled Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) which has been regularly tested every year since 2012. The only year it...
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...
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...
9/11 & The New World Order
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...
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...
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...
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