Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Emerging Security Trends and Legitimacy of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (Article)

Abstract: The contemporary emerging security trends seem destined to marginalising the potential and legitimacy of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. The transformation in the international settings...

President Obama’s Legacy: An Academic’s Perspective (Article)

Abstract: In his second and last presidency, US President Barack Obama, conscious of his lasting legacy, has taken some bold and unprecedented foreign policy decisions....

Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: Post 2014 Challenges (Article)

Abstract: With the war in Afghanistan spanning over 13 years coming to an inconclusive end, the three multiple transition processes (security, political and economic) have...

Cyber (In) Security: A Challenge to Reckon With (Article)

Abstract: Recent developments in the cyber domain have exposed the dangers of a largely apathetic behaviour towards the looming threats of cyber warfare. Calls for...

Nuclear Pakistan: Strategic Dimensions. Zulfqar Khan, ed. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 275....

Pakistan is passing through turbulent times. The declining economy and political instability, coupled with the security challenges of extremism, terrorism and sectarianism are threatening...

The Kashmir Dispute: 1947-2012. A.G. Noorani. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 550. (Book...

The book under review, The Kashmir Dispute: 1947-2012, authored by A. G. Noorani, is an anthology of archival and contemporary documents, speeches, interviews, and...

China Goes Global: The Partial Power. David Shambaugh. London: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp....

The rise of China matters. China has been aspiring to become a true global power in every field. A global power’s external behaviour is...

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding. Hussain Haqqani....

The relationship between Pakistan and the US spans over six decades, and has gone through various troughs and peaks in this period. An association...

No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad.Daniel S. Markey. New Delhi: Cambridge...

In our present times, no two countries have had a relationship more conflicted than the one shared by Pakistan and the United States. Of...

Emerging Shifts in India’s Nuclear Policy: Implications for Minimum Deterrence in South Asia

Abstract: A decade and a half after the testing of its nuclear weapons in 1998, India is gradually transforming its nuclear policy. This consistent shift...

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