Pakistan’s Place in a Changing World
Moeed Yusuf
The Evolving Global Order
The world has moved from its unipolar moment into multipolarity; China has arrived; Russia has resurged; and the era of singular U.S. dominance is over....
Why is Syria a target to imperialist forces?
Paul Antonopoulos
Syria is one of the few states in the world since the Vietnam War that has resisted US imperialism until Washington has tired itself out and almost fully...
Letters to Uncle Sam: Manto on Pak-US Relations
Rizwan Zeb
Should literature be taken seriously by political scientists and historians? Is there any link between literature and political developments? Can literature be more helpful in understanding political developments...
US NPR: The New Nuclear Arms Race
Adil Sultan
The 2018 US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that has once again increased the salience of low yield theatre or the tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) in the US military...
Terrorism then and now: the shifting sands of terrorist violence in Pakistan (2001-2018)
Muhammad Feyyaz
The typical non-state terrorism indiscriminately targeting the civilians erupted in Pakistan following the US invasion of Afghanistan during October 2001. It was predominantly sectarian prior to this war....
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...
Building on the Nonproliferation Value of the Nuclear Deal with Iran
Kelsey Davenport
The nuclear deal negotiated between Iran and six countries known as the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) succeeded in resolving a...
Pakistan Census 2017: What does the data indicate?
Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
Pakistan held its sixth census in 2017 which put Pakistan’s population at 207.7 million people with an average annual growth rate of 2.4% over a period of...
Deterrence, Compellence and the Cold Start Doctrine
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
Conflict has been one of the most recurrent themes in history. It is apt to assert that war has been an oft-used instrument by actors to...
The Prospects Of The Russian-Pakistani Partnership
Andrew Korybko
Russia and Pakistan have been involved in a fast-moving rapprochement over the past couple of years that has since seen them develop a multidimensional partnership that’s approaching a...
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High Energy Laser Weapons: A Boon for Pakistan?
Safia Mansoor
In 1960, Theodore Maiman, an American physicist and engineer, invented the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of...
Making a Case for the Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline
Haider Ali
In the complex tapestry of South Asian geopolitics, the Iran-Pakistan (IP) Gas Pipeline project stands out as...
Mapping Emerging Trends in Space Warfare
Safia Mansoor
"Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and the sea”
Former...