Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Issue Brief on “India-Pakistan Relations: Another Sour Affair”

On April 10, 2017, Pakistan awarded death sentence to Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadhav through Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under Pakistan Army Act...

China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know by Arthur R. Kroeber, Oxford University Press...

Chinese economy rose to an unprecedented level and has stumbled recently, but it continues to spring at home and abroad. What makes it work...

ISIS: The Face of Terrorism: A Threat We Can’t Ignore by Arun Mittal, First...

The book ISIS: The Face of Terrorism: A Threat We Can’t Ignore written by Arun Mittal provides a comprehensive chronology of the development of...

The Obama Doctrine in the Americas, edited by Hanna S. Kassab and Jonathan D....

The Obama Doctrine in the Americas is an edited volume spread over 14 chapters and deals with the foreign policy transition from George W....

Pakistan and a World in Disorder — A Grand Strategy for the Twenty-first Century...

The book titled Pakistan and a World in Disorder — A Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century discusses Pakistan’s policies in the 21st century...

Reforms in Gilgit-Baltistan

Abstract The Gilgit-Baltistan region is neither a province of Pakistan nor part of the federation. Recently, the suggestion that Gilgit-Baltistan be made a province of...

Women in Security Policy-making: A Case Study of Pakistan

Abstract Traditionally and historically masculine attributes are attached to the concept of “Security.” Therefore, security itself and the issues related to it are dominated by...

The Pakistan-China Bilateral Trade: The Future Trajectory

Abstract Trade volume between Pakistan and China largely remained insignificant. It did not constitute a viable economic partnership between the two countries until the first...

Protracted Afghan Refugee Situation: Policy Options for Pakistan

Abstract Pakistan provided shelter to one of the world’s largest protracted refugee populations ─ more than five million Afghan refugees have been living in Pakistan...

Nuclear Arms Race in South Asia: Pakistan’s Quest for Security

Abstract The paper examines the nuclear arms race in South Asia. The security competition between India and Pakistan has been characterised by an action-reaction spiral....

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