Vacillation between Soft and Hard Balancing: China-Pakistan versus Indo-US Strategies
Abstract
State systems have undergone some drastic changes for the last few decades largely because of the information revolution and the concept of Westphalia state...
Nuclear Powers and Terrorism: Challenges for Indo-Pak Strategic Stability
Abstract
The rapid expansion of nuclear weapons and related technology has posed serious threats to global peace. Ensuring the safety of nuclear assets has become...
Questioning the Counter-insurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan
Abstract
The framing and rewriting of the counter-insurgency (COIN) manual by the United States (US) post 9/11 was put into practice in Afghanistan in 2001....
Prospects of Peace in Afghanistan
Abstract
The National Unity Government (NUG) has expressed positive overtures towards Taliban and has been exploring and pursuing several avenues to initiate talks with...
ISIS: Assessment of Threat for Afghanistan, Pakistan and South and Central Asia
Abstract
The near-complete state breakdown in Iraq and Syria explains the meteoric rise of ISIS in a short span of time. It grew so strong...
Strategic Studies (Vol. 36, Spring 2016, No. 1)
Articles
ISIS: Assessment of Threat for Afghanistan, Pakistan and South and
Central Asia
Kashif Mumtaz
Prospects of Peace in Afghanistan
Amina Khan
Questioning the Counter-insurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan
Gulrukhsar Mujahid
Nuclear...
Issue Brief on “Pak- Afghan Relations: Come Back to the Boardroom”
Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are once again at an all time low following a series of clashes along the Pak – Afghan border...
Obama at War: Congress and the Imperial Presidency. Ryan C. Hendrickson. Lexington Kentuky:...
Obama at War: Congress and the Imperial Presidency. Ryan C. Hendrickson. Lexington Kentuky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. Pp. 192.
Amna Ejaz Rafi
The coercive US...
ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam. Erick Stakelbeck. Washington...
ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam. Erick Stakelbeck. Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2015. Pp. 207.
Sarah Akram
Erick Stakelbeck sheds light...
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight against Terrorism from Al Qa’eda...
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight against Terrorism from Al Qa'eda to ISIS. Micheal Morell and Bill Halow. New York Boston:...