Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Issue Brief on “National Action Plan: Achievements and Limitations”

Pakistan has experienced the wave of terrorism for around two decades for which the nation has borne a huge cost in both human and...

Report – Inauguration & Launch of China-Pakistan Study Centre’s Magazine PIVOT

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted the inauguration and launch of the China Pakistan Study Center’s (CPSC) magazine ‘Pivot’ on January 23,...

Issue Brief on “The Future of Brexit”

On January 15, 2019, Theresa May suffered the heaviest parliamentary defeat of any British prime minister after her Brexit deal was rejected by the...

Issue Brief on “Yellow Vest Movement Explained”

In his effort to quell the gilets jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement that has gripped France, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to tighten...

Report – In-house meeting with a 4-Member Chinese Delegation from Chinese Council for BRICS...

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted an In-House Meeting with a 4-member Chinese delegation from Chinese Council of BRICS Think Tank Cooperation...

Conversation with Ambassador Cameron Munter

On January 15, 2019, the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) in collaboration with Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) organised a public talk...

Report – In-House Meeting with 6-Member Maldives Delegation

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISS) hosted an In-House Meeting with a 6-member delegation from Pakistan-Maldives Friendship Association on December 26, 2018. The...

The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Rudolph, Jennifer and Szonyi, Michael...

The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power is basically a collection of 36 chapters written by various scholars affiliated with the Fairbank...

The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan. Raghavan, T...

Raghavan, who retired from the Indian Foreign Service in December 2015, at the end of a two-year period as India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan,...

Humanisation of Arms Control: Paving the Way for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons....

Daniel Reitiker observes the lack of progress in the last two decades in nuclear arms control and links it to the state security centric...

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