Investigating Subcontinental Crises
Sameer Lalwani & Hannah Haegeland
Nearly two decades after the last bilateral conflict at Kargil, India-Pakistan tensions simmer amidst continued instability in Kashmir and ongoing terror attacks perceived by India...
The S-400 Deal and Pakistan’s Quest for Strategic Stability
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The 20-year old nuclear dyad in South Asia has been typified by the action-reaction model, whereby arch-rivals, India and Pakistan have buttressed their deterrence mix and...
Pulwama: Two Years On
Kaiser Tufail
As with any political party in power, the Indian election of 2019 was critical for the Bharatya Janata Party (BJP), for it wanted a stronger showing than before....
Book Review | China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Author: Daniel S. Markey
ISBN: 978-0190680190
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
In his path-breaking book “Destined for War”, Graham Allison wrote: “China enjoys such superiority in its balance of economic...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Journey Since 1998: Still Reluctant or Not?
Rizwan Zeb
Forty-seven years ago, in 1972, compelled by worsening threat perception, Pakistan reluctantly embarked upon the nuclear journey when Bhutto ordered his scientists to work on building the nuclear...
Great Power Competition in South Asia: The Outlook for 2021
Rupert Stone
The journalist Fareed Zakaria recently described the coronavirus as “the great accelerator” because it had sped up various pre-existing global trends. This formula certainly applies to South Asia,...
Blockchain: Myth Busters for Pakistani Regulators
Najeeb Zaidi
Background
There is a need to bust the myth and anxiety around the buzz-word ‘Blockchain’. This applies to all and sundry because we are divorcing ourselves from its great...
Book Review I UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia 1992- 1995: A Pakistani...
Author : Dr. Tughral Yamin
Publisher: Paramount Books (PVT.) Ltd.
YEAR: 2019
ISBN: 978-969-637-522-7
Ailiya Naqvi
Shouldering a Huge and Dangerous Load for the UN :Assessing Pakistan's Critical Role in Somalia
“I assure you that any U.S....
Come September: Holding Stakeholders Responsible for the Chaos in Afghanistan
Rabia Akhtar
Exploring Competing Regional Interests
Before we explore potential openings in the competing interests of South and Central Asian neighbors that Afghanistan has, we need to know whether Afghanistan itself...
Military Technologies, Fifth Generation Warfare and Policy Implications for Pakistan
Najeeb Zaidi
It is trendy to give generational classifications to warfare based on technological changes. However, warfare has always been hybrid and has constantly been shaped by that generation’s technological...
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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...