Parliamentary Track 1 ½ Diplomacy: An Effective Tool for Peace-making
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Preventive diplomacy traditionally involves Track I of governments and inter-governmental organisations in diplomatic negotiations to prevent and end armed conflict. Track II are confidence-building...
South Asian Nuclear Thresholds: Repercussions of Cold Start Doctrine and Tactical Nuclear Weapons
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It can be argued that the overt nuclearisation of South Asia has averted a major military confrontation between India and Pakistan. However, it is...
Indian Missile Defence Development: Implications for Deterrence Stability in South Asia
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India has pursued the development and acquisition of a ballistic missile defence (BMD) system since the 1990s. Its indigenous system consists of a two-tier...
South Asian Strategic Paradox: India-Pakistan Nuclear Flux
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This article critically analyses the paradoxical flux situation in South Asia in view of both countries’ possession of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs), strategic arsenals,...
The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry between India and Pakistan. Dilip Hiro. NY: Nation...
Dilip Hiro, one of the leading experts on South Asia, in The Longest August narrates a detailed history of the partition of the subcontinent...
Military Responses to the Arab Uprisings and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the...
William C. Taylor is a former Assistant Professor of American foreign policy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a...
Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012. Vahid Brown and Don Rassler. London: Hurst...
Vahid Brown is a specialist in the history of Islamist militancy and the author of Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in Al-Qaida, 1989-2006....
The Destruction of Hyderabad. A.G.Noorani. London: Husrt & Company, 2014. Pp. 338.
The Destruction of Hyderabad is an exhaustive constitutional discussion by A.G. Noorani, an Indian lawyer, and a distinguished political author. His in-depth research delves...
Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Greg...
The issue of fragile states has been at the centre of international security and development agenda for more than a decade. The international donor...
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics. Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge: The...
After more than 67 years of independence, a nuclear armed Pakistan is still struggling to cope with its external and internal challenges. Some of...
