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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 Taliban and Afghanistan’s Gordian Knot

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Trumpting the Withdrawal From Afghanistan

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Crude Threats and the Politics of Oil Production

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Rise of the BJP

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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,...

Pakistan’s Enduring TTP Woes

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests: Twenty Years On

Salman Bashir Pakistan’s nuclear tests on 28 and 30 May 1998 marked a watershed in the nation’s quest for security. The devices tested conformed to weapon configuration capable of delivery....
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The Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence

  Michael Krepon “Deterrence stability” has been the holy grail of nuclear arms control, the mechanism by which arms racing can be contained and stability in crises maintained. Advocates of strategic...

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