SCO Membership and Pakistan: Prospects of Relations with Central Asia
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In June 2017, Pakistan gained the permanent membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in its 16th Heads of State Summit in Astana. As...
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Opportunities and Challenges
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The paper discusses salient features of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and attempts to analyse the opportunities and challenges coming along its way. This...
Significance of UNSCR 1540 and Emerging Challenges to its Effectiveness
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As the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) proliferation and terrorism emerged in the early 21st century, the International non-proliferation regime began...
Russia’s Strategic Calculus in South Asia and Pakistan’s Role: Challenges and Prospects
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Russia has begun to adopt a politically pronounced approach towards Pakistan, which indicates a shift in Moscow’s long-standing patterns of engagement with Islamabad. Against...
CPEC and Regional Connectivity: Navigating the South Asian Politics
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New dynamics of competition between countries are emerging in the quest for promoting regional connectivity. Several economic corridor projects are being pushed by different...
Nuclear Normalcy: A Reality Check of India’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Record
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India’s much-hyped nuclear non-proliferation record has numerous loopholes that are usually overlooked. In the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the Participating Governments (PGs) tend to...
Iran: A Modern History. Abbas Amanat. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017,...
Iran: A Modern History Abbas Amanat’s is not a traditional account of the Iranian history; rather it is an entirely unconventional discourse on history...
All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin. Zygar Mikhail. New York:...
The former editor of the Russian independent media outlet Dozhd, Mikhail Zygar, explores various dimensions of Russia’s internal politics. His gripping narrative provides an...
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017. Ian Black. New...
November 2017, marked a century of the Balfour Declaration which promised the “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. In the book, Enemies...
Countering Terrorism. Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree. Washington D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2017, 288.
The two prominent scholars in the field of terrorism studies, Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree have tried to argue in their book Countering Terrorism...
