Issue Brief on “India’s Purchasing of IAI Elta Drone Guard and its Regional (In)...
Israel’s major aerospace and aviation manufacturer, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has announced selling in dozens of their counter-UAV Drone Guard systems, the IAI Elta...
Issue Brief on “Gwadar and Southern Balochistan: Next Stage of Development”
When China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
was launched in 2015, much attention was paid to development of Gwadar port and
city. Both sides had reached an agreement...
Issue Brief on “Sewa International: RSS charity wing promotes Hindutva Ideology”
Sewa International, the international charity
wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS was established in 1989 by Madhukar
Deoras. The prime objective of the RSS charity wing...
Islamabad Paper “Understanding Pakistan-China Relations”
Abstract
The establishment of diplomatic relations in 1951 between China and Pakistan provided the desired building blocks to lay the foundations of bilateral relations....
Report – Panel Discussion on “Conversations on the Afghan Peace Process: Qatar’s Role in...
The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle
East & Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad
(ISSI) had a Panel Discussion on ‘Conversations on the Afghan...
US-Iran Tensions and Instability in Iraq: Role of the Popular Mobilisation Units
Abstract
Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) is the largest umbrella organisation in Iraq encompassing more than 40 of these paramilitary forces with many of them having...
International Liberal Order: Competing Trends and Narratives
Abstract
China’s foreign policy under the leadership of Xi Jinping took a shift from conservative to more liberal political and economic strategies. This change in...
China: ‘Rising Threat’ or ‘Rising Peace’
Abstract
‘China threat’ as a western foreign policy orientation and ‘Peaceful rise’ which later became ‘Peaceful development’ concept of Hu Jintao administration is debated...
Militarisation of Artificial Intelligence and Future of Arms Control in South Asia
Abstract
Like other emerging technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a dual-use technology with wider applications in military domain ranging from its integration with existing weapon...
Growing Chinese Presence in the Indian Ocean: Prospects and Challenges
Abstract
The ‘String of Pearls’ strategy attributed to China for growing its relations with the states situated around the Indian Ocean (IO) in order to...
