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Strategic Significance of Pakistan: Challenges and Way Forward

Abstract Since its very inception Pakistan has been facing multiple strategic, diplomatic and economic challenges. With a significant strategic position Pakistan is situated at the...

Great Power Rivalry in Indo Pacific: Implications for Pakistan

Abstract The term of Indo Pacific delineates a conceptual evolution in the US strategic community to contain and encircle China by countering it in the...

Soft Power in the Foreign Policy of Pakistan: Prospects and Potentials

Abstract Transition and diffusion of power are changing the political context and have made soft power more relevant than ever. The Government of Pakistan has...

Global Power Shift and Foreign Policy Choices for Pakistan

Abstract The shifting global order suggests arrival of the world away from the U.S.-led liberal unipolar order. The rise of the rest, notably, the Chinese...

Perception and Reality of Pakistan’s India Centric Foreign Policy

Abstract Since 1947, Indo-Pak hostility and the consequent Kabul-New Delhi bonhomie have been a recurrent feature of Pakistan’s foreign policy. Being located at an advantageous...

Pakistan-India Relations: A Critical Appraisal of Power Politics

Abstract Pakistan-India relations are mired in power politics making the two countries as rivals with competing identities and interests. By the logic of power politics,...

Impact of Ukraine War on Global Energy and Food Supply Chains: A Case Study...

Abstract The damaging economic, political, and diplomatic effects of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022 have not been confined to just continental Europe. The...

Indian Muslims’ Socio-Political and Economic Challenges in the Globalised World

Abstract India is a multi-religious and multiethnic society, the rise of Hindutva in the country’s politics has polarised it in an unprecedented way. The state’s...

Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: Security Imperatives

Abstract This paper aims to study the security of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in regional context, with special focus on China Pakistan Economic Corridor...

Pakistan-China Relations: Beyond CPEC

Abstract In recent years between 2013-18, Pakistan-China relations witnessed a qualitative transformation as the bilateral ties expanded from defence to the economic sphere. The cooperation...

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