Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Issue Brief on “Yemen: Saudi Coalition Struggles to Retake Hodeidah Port”

On July 21, 2018 the Yemeni government struggled to take back control of the Hodeidah port as the Saudi-led coalition had failed to occupy...

Issue Brief on “Saudi Salwa Canal Project”

“Starting the Salwa Canal. Congratulations to the Saudi people for this wonderful project that will transform the small terrorist state of Qatar into...

Islamabad Paper on “US and Evolving Strategic Shifts in the World Order: The Future...

Abstract The world order that we have come to experience since the end of the Second World War is undergoing notable strategic shifts. Major power...

Islamabad Paper on “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Emerging Maritime Security Environment”

Abstract The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is rising in strategic importance and 21st century geopolitics is going to be centered on the Indian Ocean. In...

Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia — Political Challenges in Asian Waters. Tarling,...

“Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia - Political Challenges in Asian Waters” is an edited book by Nicholas Tarling and Xin Chen, published...

How India Sees the World. Saran, Shyam. India: Juggernaut Books, 2017.

Shyam Saran’s book How India Sees the World attempts to explain the Indian foreign policy outlook, the sources of its foreign policy and how...

Saudi Arabia & Iran: Friends or Foes. Kaynoush, Banafsheh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016,...

The US influence on the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran plays a role so inherent that it becomes impossible to analyze their ties...

Rivers Divided-Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan. Haines, Daniel. Oxford...

“Rivers Divided-Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan” by Daniel Haines is an historic account of water politics in South Asia....

Pakistan’s Growing Relations with Russia: Factoring in the Role of the US

Abstract It is argued that there are no permanent friends or foes in the realm of international relations, only interests are primary and supreme. Every...

Energising SAARC: Options for Pakistan

Abstract South Asia has a chequered history, as it has confronted great crisis and problem, such as poverty, bad governance, corruption, illiteracy and terrorism. The...

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