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....
Between Khrushchev and Khuhro: The Initial Explorations in Soviet-Pakistan Relations
Sergey Radchenko
Not long after coming to power in the wake of Joseph Stalin’s death, the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev presided over a major turn...
Pakistan’s Place in a Changing World
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The Evolving Global Order
The world has moved from its unipolar moment into multipolarity; China has arrived; Russia has resurged; and the era of singular U.S. dominance is over....
Feminism, Foreign policy and Hope
Maria Bastos
The study of foreign policy is currently facing important challenges mostly associated with forecasting the world order. Those challenges imply an imbalance between two nexuses operating at different...
Investigating Subcontinental Crises
Sameer Lalwani & Hannah Haegeland
Nearly two decades after the last bilateral conflict at Kargil, India-Pakistan tensions simmer amidst continued instability in Kashmir and ongoing terror attacks perceived by India...
An Overview of the Afghan Conflict and Looking Ahead
Riaz Mohammad Khan
Since 1979, the Afghan conflict has deeply impacted Pakistan and Pakistan’s foreign relations, in particular its relations with the United States. A brief survey of how the conflict...
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Pakistan Should Silently Celebrate Trump's Pullout From The Iranian Deal
Andrew Korybko
Trump’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal actually plays to Pakistan’s strategic advantage and should be silently celebrated by...
The Pitfalls of the Indo-U.S. Embrace
Anum A. Khan
The June 15, 2020 clash between India and China is fittingly in-line with a famous saying, “Imprudence is a moral failing of sorts, but alas it ranks...
The Geopolitics of Sri Lanka’s Crisis
Kashif Hussain
On October 26, 2018, Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sirisena also dissolved the legislature and called for...
Pakistan and the International Politics of Labeling the States
Ahmed Waheed
If international narratives on Pakistan were to be believed, then Pakistan is a Weak State, a Failed State, a Garrison State, an Insecure State, a Fragile State, a...
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