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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 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...
Revisiting Pakistan’s Nuclear Restraint
Mansoor Ahmed
State behavior is largely a product of rational decision-making based on a careful cost-benefit analysis. Countries pursuing crash covert nuclear weapon programs are less likely to remain sensitive...
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...
Going Nuclear: A Personal Recollection
Zamir Akram
As I drove to work at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, where I was posted as Deputy Chief of Mission, early on the morning of 11 May...
Book Review: Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
South Asia has been prone to crises ever since the inception of India and Pakistan. This volatile theatre has been vitiated as both countries have gone...
Security Predicated On Suicide: Two Decades In Armageddon’s Shadow
Ilhan Niaz
The first episode of the 1980s BBC comedy Yes Prime Minister (“The Grand Design”), sees James Hacker, having manipulated his way to the premiership, wrestle with the contradictions...
Of Sanctions and Defiance
Rabia Akhtar
The U.S. non-proliferation policy utilizes economic, political and military sanctions enshrined in non-proliferation legislation to deter proliferation behavior in countries around the globe. Three laws –– the Symington...
Scrapping of Iran Nuclear Deal and North Korean Denuclearization: Implications for the Non-proliferation regime
Nazir Hussain
The global non-proliferation regime is under severe stress and strain due to unprecedented happenings around the world – unilateral US scrapping of the Iranian nuclear deal, the supposed...
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AM-350S: Advancing Pakistan’s Air Defense and Strategic Independence
Awais Raoof
Pakistan's unveiling of the AM-350S long-range 3D air surveillance radar at the IDEAS 2024 defense exhibition marks...
Trump 2.0: A New Chapter or the Same Old Story for Palestine?
Jalal Ud Din Kakar
Republican candidate Donald. J. Trump’s stunning victory in the recent U.S. presidential election marks an...
Himalayan Harmony: The Evolving Geopolitics of the Sino-Indo Border
Joshua Bowes
In the shared Himalayan border region between China and India, change is coming. After six decades of...