US-Pakistan Relations Won’t Thrive, But They’ll Survive
Michael Kugelman
Washington and Islamabad aren’t bound to be besties. But they can still find ways to work together.
If there’s one truism about U.S. foreign relations, it’s that America is...
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Responsibility and Deterrence in South Asia
Salma Shaheen
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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...
Unpacking the Afghan Conundrum
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Pakistan’s Continuing FATF Misery
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The February FATF Plenary has ended with the expected outcome: Pakistan has done “well” but not “well enough”. In other words, Pakistan remains on the FATF grey...
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...
Book Review | Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Book Title: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Author: Francis J. Gavin
ISBN: 978-0-8157-3791-9
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2020
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
In the nuclear academy, Robert Jervis’ 1989 book titled “The...
Persistent Conflict between NWSs: South Asia vs the Korean Peninsula
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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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