Why New START Needs a New Start?
Ayesha Abbasi
John F. Kennedy said, “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” The arms control regime is presently in a downward spiral mainly because the leaders are no...
The End of Atlanticism?
Tughral Yamin
At the time that the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall came down, I found myself attending the German Staff Course in Hamburg. Overnight our course material...
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...
Industrial Minds, Commercial Weapons: Who Would Lead Future Wars?
Muhammad Sharreh Qazi
“AI doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the...
High Stakes for Ankara in Syria
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
America had announced its troop withdrawal from the Middle East at the pretext of defeating ISIS however, we see that it has further entangled itself in the...
Book Review | REIMAGINING PAKISTAN: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Author: Husain Haqqani
ISBN:978-9352777693
Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2018
Saeed Afridi
The premise of Husain Haqqani’s latest book “Re-imagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State” is that Pakistan is an ill-defined, inexactly contrived, economically unviable...
Explaining Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings
Samir Kumar & Hari Prasad
On April 21, 2019, a series of suicide bombings devastated churches and hotels in SriLanka. Multiple sites within three different cities (Batticaloa in the east...
Cultural Dynamics, Insider Threat and Nuclear Security
Zeeshan Shahid Khan
Insider threat has been one of the most dangerous security concerns for all organizations whether in the commercial world or dealing with national & international security. However,...
A Reading of History for Societal Transformation
Salman Bashir
History is an inexact science and depends on the inclination and the time period of those who record it. Yes, science is not only a social or anthropological...
Tracing the Islamic State’s Threat
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
The genesis of the Islamic State (ISIS), the world’s wealthiest and the strongest terrorist group, is traced back to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. When...