Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: Security Imperatives
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This paper aims to study the security of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in regional context, with special focus on China Pakistan Economic Corridor...
Pakistan-India Relations: A Critical Appraisal of Power Politics
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Pakistan-India relations are mired in power politics making the two countries as rivals with competing identities and interests. By the logic of power politics,...
Impact of Ukraine War on Global Energy and Food Supply Chains: A Case Study...
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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...
The ‘Petrocurrency’ Determinants in Growing Sino-US Confrontation: Implication for South Asia
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The purpose of this article is to identify the areas where China’s internationally rising monetary and petrocurrency influence is likely to conflict with the...
Soft Power in the Foreign Policy of Pakistan: Prospects and Potentials
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Transition and diffusion of power are changing the political context and have made soft power more relevant than ever. The Government of Pakistan has...
Russian South Asia Policy: From Estrangement to Pragmatism
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This paper is an attempt to analyse the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian policy responses towards the South Asia particularly India and Pakistan contextualising how...
Recognition of the Taliban Government in Afghanistan and International Community
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The purpose of this paper is to study the responses and concerns of the international community vis-à-vis the Taliban government in Afghanistan as...
The Plebiscite Conundrum in Jammu and Kashmir (1947 to the Present Day)
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Since 1947 the expectation that the fate of the disputed former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir would be decided by a plebiscite...
US Indo-Pacific Strategy and Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: The Hedging Option
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Pakistan finds itself at the horns of a strategic dilemma as the US-China rivalry intensifies in international politics. At the heart of the dilemma...
Hindutva and Islamophobia
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This research paper is an attempt to understand rising Islamophobia in India in relation to Hindutva as a political ideology. It is argued that...
