India’s Low Nuclear Threshold
Sameer Ali Khan
Revision of the Indian No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons policy has been under significant discussion since 2014 once BJP announced its intent to review and...
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Global Military Outlook : Implications for Pakistan
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Emerging trends
The modern state system which first emerged in Europe in the late 17th century, the Westphalian system, gradually spreading to the rest of the world, is...
Rebranding Nuclear Disarmament: Assessing Role and Impact of The Nuclear Ban Treat
Sitara Noor
International efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament are as old as the nuclear weapons development. The United Nations General Assembly’s first resolution in 1946 established a commission to...
Hybrid Warfare: Shielding Stratagem
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Global politics is fluid and dynamic.Nations are combating identical and contrasting traditional and non-traditional security challenges. Security analysts are calling a mix of these challenges as Hybrid Warfare....
Mapping India’s Project Akhand Bharat
Saima Aman Sial
India’s rapid drift towards extremism, as evidenced by the alarming rise of Hindu nationalism at home and irredentist proclivities in...
Of Internal Reforms and External Connectivity:Strengthening Economic Security in Pakistan.
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While national security of Pakistan is inextricably linked to its military preparedness, it has other dimensions that relate more to its economic health than keeping it secure in...
Crude Threats and the Politics of Oil Production
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In March 2020, at an OPEC+ meeting, Saudi Arabia pushed for a crude oil production cut of 1.5 million barrels per day...
Orphans and Castaways – Legacy of the U.S. Exodus from Afghanistan
Salma Malik
As the eventual date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is now just around the corner, the reality that this...
Marty’s Oppenheimer
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“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and...
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