Mapping India’s Project Akhand Bharat
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India’s rapid drift towards extremism, as evidenced by the alarming rise of Hindu nationalism at home and irredentist proclivities in...
Trump’s Space Force and the Fate of The Outer Space Treaty
Waqas Iqbal
The United States of America has always introduced novel initiatives like nuclear weapons, NATO, Missile Defense Shield, quarantine etc., in world politics which, in turn have spawned competition...
The Taliban and Afghanistan’s Gordian Knot
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
The inveterate depredation in Afghanistan has been a costly affair for all stakeholders and those involved in conflict-resolution efforts. The resolution of the decades-long Afghan quagmire...
Persistent Conflict between NWSs: South Asia vs the Korean Peninsula
Christoph Bluth
It has been a long-standing axiom in International Relations that nuclear powers do not go to war with each other. This belief is particularly strong among advocates of...
Strategic Stability Challenges in South Asia
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Stability is a contested intellectual construct with no consensus on its precise meaning. As noted by Patrick A. McCarthy, “it is overly simplistic and, more than that,...
Deterrence Stability in South Asia: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Amina Afzal
India and Pakistan’s seaward nuclearization has received great scholarly attention off late. The thrust of recent literature on the issue focuses on whether an at-sea deterrent has bolstered...
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,...
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...
Dissecting the Taliban’s Rapprochement with India
Rupert Stone
In June 2022, the Indian government announced the reopening of its embassy in Kabul. To many, this came as a surprise. Weren’t...
Going Nuclear: A Personal Recollection
Zamir Akram
As I drove to work at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, where I was posted as Deputy Chief of Mission, early on the morning of 11 May...
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Book Review| Nuclear Arms Control in South Asia: Politics, Postures,& Practices
Nuclear Arms Control in South Asia: Politics, Postures,& Practices
Authors: Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
ISBN: 9786273100043
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