Issue Brief on “Pakistan-Turkmenistan: Moving Ahead with Bilateral Relations”
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chairman of Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov visited Islamabad on January 15-16, 2018,at the invitation of...
Issue Brief on “Analyzing the Upward Trend in Pakistan’s Exports to EU”
Pakistan has recently completed three years of bilateral trade and progress under the European Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Plus scheme. In December 2013,...
Issue Brief on “Netanyahu’s India Visit: Coming Out of the Closet”
Calling his trip to India as "very emotional and deeply satisfying", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted as he bid his week-long trip to...
Issue Brief on “Peace on Korean Peninsula: The Chinese Perspective”
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK) resumed political talks on January 9, 2018 and again on January...
Issue Brief on “The United Nations ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018’”
The World Economic Situation and Prospective Report (WESP) was launched on December 11, 2017.The Report is a collaborative effort by the UNDESA, UNCTAD and...
Issue Brief on “Public Protests in Iran 2017-18: Rouhani’s Test or Triumph?”
The past few weeks in Iran have been rather turbulent. Thousands of protestors took to the streets to publicly demonstrate their anger and dissent...
Putting Pakistan Right: Standpoints on the War on Terror, Energy, Transit Corridors & Economic...
Pakistan has been confronting multifarious challenges during the past decade. Scholars have examined the ‘roots’ of Pakistan’s critical issues through a security-centric discourse, yet,...
State Capitalism: How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World. Kurlantzick, Joshua. New...
The term ‘State capitalism’ is a combination of the traditional economic planning of a state and ‘free-market’ competition, which includes openness to free trade...
The Ambiguous Foreign Policy of the United States toward the Muslim World: More than...
Undeniably, history of the Middle East consists of social upheavals, tribal tensions, diplomatic challenges, bloody wars and economic opportunities. Consequently, history of the Middle...
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan. Daechsel, Markus. United Kingdom: Cambridge...
Markus Daechsel, in his book titled Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan, delves deep into a highly original and detailed account...
