Issue Brief on “The Moscow-Delhi Pivot: Decoding Putin’s 2025 Visit to India”
The visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi, during the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit on December 4-5, 2025, was much more...
Issue Brief on “Counter-Insurgency in India: India’s Military and Political Strategies to Control and...
Introduction
Successive Indian governments—regardless of the ruling party—have tried to prove that India is one nation with various cultures as part of one union. In...
Issue Brief on “SAARC institutional deadlock: India-Pakistan Tensions and Future of Regionalism in South...
Introduction
In spite of being one of the densely populated regions in the world, South Asia lags substantially in building regional cohesion among regional states....
Issue Brief on “IIOJK in 2025: Governance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Control”
Introduction
The year 2025 brought no respite for the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), who continued to suffer under Indian illegal...
Issue Brief on “Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the Era of Strategic Uncertainty?”
On October 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “because of other countries' programs, I have instructed the Department of...
Issue Brief on “Europe’s Peace Proposal Debate on Ukraine: Between Rearmament, Strategic Autonomy and...
The recent debate in the European Parliament (EP) over a “peace proposal” for Ukraine, calling, in various formulations, for a ceasefire, negotiations, or a...
Issue Brief on “Pakistan and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU): Prospects for Strategic Economic...
The evolving global landscape, marked by intensifying multipolarity, sanctions-driven geo-economic fragmentation, and expanding regional blocs, has renewed interest in Pakistan’s potential engagement with the...
Issue Brief on “The Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan (UAP) Railway: A Bridge to Geoeconomics”
Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to Kabul on July 17, 2025, officially paved the way for fast-tracking the Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan (UAP) railway project....
Issue Brief on “A Decade of the India–U.S. Defence Pact: Assessment of Progress and...
The renewal of the India- U.S. defence pact on 31 October 2025 on the sidelines of the recent ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur is...
Issue Brief on “China’s White Paper on Arms Control: An Appraisal”
The contemporary international security environment is defined by increasing strategic uncertainties. Intensifying militarization, arms race, and rapid proliferation of the Emerging and Disruptive Technologies...
