Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

National Action Plan: The Need for a National Narrative

The Pakistan has been struggling to get rid of the violent narratives which it acquired as a product of changes both at national and...

India-Pakistan Relations: Post Pathankot

The history of India-Pakistan relations has always been marred by ill-fated incidents. Jammu and Kashmir and terrorism are two major issues that have always...

China’s Middle East Policy: President Xi Jinping’s Recent Visits

China’s Middle East policy is driven by a genuine desire for peace and security in the region. It is also underpinned by China's growing...

The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry between India and Pakistan. Dilip Hiro. NY: Nation...

Dilip Hiro, one of the leading experts on South Asia, in The Longest August narrates a detailed history of the partition of the subcontinent...

Military Responses to the Arab Uprisings and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the...

William C. Taylor is a former Assistant Professor of American foreign policy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a...

Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012. Vahid Brown and Don Rassler. London: Hurst...

Vahid Brown is a specialist in the history of Islamist militancy and the author of Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in Al-Qaida, 1989-2006....

The Destruction of Hyderabad. A.G.Noorani. London: Husrt & Company, 2014. Pp. 338.

The Destruction of Hyderabad is an exhaustive constitutional discussion by A.G. Noorani, an Indian lawyer, and a distinguished political author. His in-depth research delves...

Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Greg...

The issue of fragile states has been at the centre of international security and development agenda for more than a decade. The international donor...

The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics. Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge: The...

After more than 67 years of independence, a nuclear armed Pakistan is still struggling to cope with its external and internal challenges. Some of...

CPEC Industrial Zones and China-Pakistan Capacity Cooperation

Abstract With the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor brought onto the fast track of construction and major political hurdles eliminated, we are expecting to see it progress...

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