Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

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...

Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State, Husain, Ishrat. Oxford University Press, second Edition,...

Dr. Ishrat Husain’s book “Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State” is based on the thesis that a small group of elites have...

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...

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...

Authoritative Populism and the Media: Perception Control and Narrative Building in India

Abstract The article analyses the interrelationship between authoritarian populism and the media in India. It explores the core question of political authoritarianism under the rule...

EU-Pakistan Trade Relations: The Role of GSP Plus Status and Pakistan’s Enhanced Access to...

Abstract The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) Plus is an instrument through which the European Union (EU) intends to encourage not only free trade with...

Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) Membership and Mainstreaming Non-NPT Nuclear Weapon State (NWS): Case Study...

Abstract This article examines the possibility of devising membership criteria for the Non-NPT Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) (India, Pakistan and Israel) in the Nuclear Suppliers...

Asia and Competing Visions of Regional Order: Free and Open Indo-Pacific and Belt and...

Abstract Under Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States (US) pushed forward the concept of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP). Meanwhile, China is expanding cooperation...

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...

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