The Might of Petro Dollar: Why Saudi Arabia Can Continue Its Atrocities in Yemen?
Paul Antonopoulos
Back in April 2018, The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres explained at a conference in Geneva that three-quarters of the Yemeni population were in desperate need of...
Trump Misses, Rouhani Hits: Calling the Curtains on JCPOA
Sina Azodi
Never Interfere with Your Enemy When He is Making a Mistake.
After months of speculation, President Trump finally announced his controversial decision last month to unilaterally withdraw the United...
Harnessing the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Tiger
Saba Shahid
It has already been established that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) offers Pakistan an opportunity for both economic and human development. However, we need to go beyond the...
The Kashmir Uprising
Farooq Hasnat
The ongoing insurgency in Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) is nothing short of a third generation war of liberation. Like their grandfathers and parents, scores of Kashmiri men, women...
The Limits of China’s Foreign Influence: Lessons from the South Pacific
Maria Bastos
Research on maritime security and related politics has increased rapidly with China’s ambitious Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). While much attention has been paid to MSRI security challenges...
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....
One Door Closes, Another Opens
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 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...
The Illogic of Regime Change
Cheryl Rofer
As the United States withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) and John Bolton takes his place as Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor,...
How Pakistan Went Nuclear
Samson Simon Sharaf
1996-97 was a politically unstable time for India. BJP despite emerging as the single largest party could not muster a majority in thirteen days. A consensus candidate...
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Pakistan-China Cooperation and India’s Strategic Anxiety
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The issue of strategic stability in South Asia is a trilemma between Pakistan, India, and China, not...
Of FATF and Pak-U.S. Relations
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Quite surprisingly, the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision on October 21, to remove Pakistan from its...
Crude Threats and the Politics of Oil Production
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In March 2020, at an OPEC+ meeting, Saudi Arabia pushed for a crude oil production cut of...