India’s Bloc Politics: A Challenge for the SCO

Mobeen Jafar Mir and Maryyum Masood The West is apprehensive about the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s expansion into a formidable regional organization in Eurasia,...

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...
Space Security

Space Security Trilemma in South Asia

Zulfqar Khan and Ahmad Khan  The peculiar nature of bilateral relations between the United States and China in space is the triggering point of a space security trilemma in South...

Internalizing Blue Growth Initiatives in Pakistan

Rutt Syed Blue Economy is a globally-nascent concept. Although the idea of Blue Economic growth is being discussed internationally for the past several...

Full Spectrum Deterrence: Capability and Credibility

Zafar Nawaz Jaspal The enduring enmity, strategic competition, and arms race dynamics have gradually advanced India and Pakistan nuclear arsenals. The former’s sophisticated military hardware shopping spree from militarily technologically...

Post COVID-19 World Order: How Different Will It Be?

Adil Sultan  The COVID-19 pandemic, termed as a “nuclear war in slow motion”, has exposed the global leadership crisis and the vulnerability of the international community to deal with the...
Internet

Terrorism over the Internet

Talal Raza In Pakistan, the internet penetration is rising with the passage of time. Freedom House reports that as of 2017, internet penetration stands at 15.5%. According to an estimate,...

Renaissance in the Gulf: America’s Bastille or China’s Awakening?

Muhammad Sharreh Qazi “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will move the world.”                      ...
Youth

The Youth Development Index in South Asia: A Human Security Risk

  Ayesha Khalid South Asia is home to almost 30% of the entire world’s youth which, if developed, can alter the fate of the region. Usually, a country’s population development is...

Kashmir – Under a Cloud of Depression

Salma Malik  “When you make a peaceful revolution impossible, you are making a violent revolution inevitable.” J F Kennedy Last I approached the red zone of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad, a...

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Marty’s Oppenheimer

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