Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

How India Sees the World. Saran, Shyam. India: Juggernaut Books, 2017.

Shyam Saran’s book How India Sees the World attempts to explain the Indian foreign policy outlook, the sources of its foreign policy and how...

Saudi Arabia & Iran: Friends or Foes. Kaynoush, Banafsheh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016,...

The US influence on the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran plays a role so inherent that it becomes impossible to analyze their ties...

Rivers Divided-Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan. Haines, Daniel. Oxford...

“Rivers Divided-Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan” by Daniel Haines is an historic account of water politics in South Asia....

Pakistan’s Growing Relations with Russia: Factoring in the Role of the US

Abstract It is argued that there are no permanent friends or foes in the realm of international relations, only interests are primary and supreme. Every...

Energising SAARC: Options for Pakistan

Abstract South Asia has a chequered history, as it has confronted great crisis and problem, such as poverty, bad governance, corruption, illiteracy and terrorism. The...

Russian Response to Syrian Crisis: A Neorealist Perspective

Abstract This research aims to study the causes of military intervention of Russia into the Syrian crisis from the perspective of neorealism. Neorealism suggests that...

Gwadar and Chabahar: Competition or Cooperation

Abstract Gwadar and Chabahar ports have gained tremendous significance as both leverage their geo-strategic location to the two rising powers in Asia, China and India....

Pakistan-China Strategic Interdependence: Post-9/11 Imperatives

Abstract To understand Pakistan-China relations, it is necessary to discuss the evolution and development of their long term bilateral relations including factors and the...

Challenges to Strategic Stability in South Asia: An Analysis

Abstract The South Asian security environment is in a state of flux due to the rivalry of two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. The acquisition...

China’s Strategy toward South and Central Asia: An Empty Fortress. Scobell, Andrew., Ratner, Ely.,...

China’s economic and diplomatic clout has been increasing in the Central and South Asian region, particularly since 2011. However, at present, its influence remains...

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