Creating an Ecosystem of RMB in Pakistan
Lu Yang
China has become Pakistan’s largest trading partner, largest country of origin of imports, largest foreign direct investor and the third largest export destination, while Pakistan has become China’s...
The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the International Law
Kamran Adil
While political analysis rules the analytical plane in International Relations; it leads to inchoate assessments.The point of departure in the debate surrounding purported withdrawal of the US from...
A Tale of Two Peace Processes: Korea and Cyprus
Colin Irwin and Seongwon Yoon
Two frozen conflicts
All peace processes are different, different peoples, histories, places, time lines and how they got in the mess they are in and how...
Deepfakes, AI & Digital Soldiers: Challenges of Cross-Domain Coercion for Pakistan
Rabia Akhtar
Let’s begin by asking a question: Why would ANY state not want to achieve capabilities where it could advance its strategic interests by evading attribution or risk of...
Deciphering India’s Quest for U.S. Civil Nuclear Technology
Sameer Ali Khan
India’s G-20 Sherpa, Amitabh Kant, has called for unfettered access to U.S. nuclear technology, to pursue Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by...
International Humanitarian Law, Kashmir and Legal CBMs
Taimur Malik
Pakistan and India came close to a war once again at the end of February 2019; a war that would have led to suffering, destruction and economic distress...
Way Forward for Tehran and Washington
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
U.S. President Donald Trump is challenged by two somewhat concomitant foreign policy challenges posed by North Korea and Iran. One cannot help but draw parallels between...
The Rafale Factor and Options for the PAF
Air Cdre Jamal Hussain (Retd)
The setback suffered by the IAF at the hands of its arch-rival the PAF on 27 February 2019, has led to serious introspection by the...
Making Sense of TTP’s Terrorism in Pakistan
Shahzad Akhtar
Pakistan has been faced with the threat of terrorism for more than a decade. While violence has decreased in recent years, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated...
The African Potential
Zeeshan Shahid Khan
Africa, the second largest continent in terms of area and population has been sitting on the sidelines of the developed and the developing world for over a...