Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Challenges of Securitising Cyberspace in Pakistan

Abstract With the rapid developments in the cyberspace domain, Pakistan has emerged as one of the fastest growing digital economies in the world. Pakistan’s internet...

Growing China-India Competition in the Indian Ocean: Implications for Pakistan

Abstract The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest body of water and has become an area of growing competition between China and India. As the...

Pakistan-India Relations: An Analytical Perspective of Peace Efforts

Abstract Pakistan and India share a critical relationship. In addition to several limited border clashes they have fought three major wars since 1947, However, they...

China’s Rise: Offensive or Defensive Realism

Abstract China’s rise has been the greatest development of the 21st century. It has emerged as the second largest economy in the world, a country...

Indian Military Modernisation: Implications for Pakistan

Abstract Strategic stability in South Asia is fragile because of India’s massive military build-up, doctrinal shift, and change in its strategic thinking. The Indian government...

Cyber Threat Landscape and Readiness Challenge of Pakistan

Abstract  Today, vital social infrastructures — electricity, finance, water, transportation, health and food — are increasingly dependent on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks...

The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Rudolph, Jennifer and Szonyi, Michael...

The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power is basically a collection of 36 chapters written by various scholars affiliated with the Fairbank...

The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan. Raghavan, T...

Raghavan, who retired from the Indian Foreign Service in December 2015, at the end of a two-year period as India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan,...

Humanisation of Arms Control: Paving the Way for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons....

Daniel Reitiker observes the lack of progress in the last two decades in nuclear arms control and links it to the state security centric...

What’s Really Behind Chinese Assertiveness in the South China Sea? Turcsanyi, Richard Q. Beijing:...

China is not assertive in the sense it is commonly used. China is naturally a big nation, a global economy and a large military...

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