Attiq Ur Rehman

Dr Attiq-ur-Rehman is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, NUML. He is a prolific writer and regularly writes for different research journals and magazines. He constantly shares his intellectual insight on various national and international forums.

The Belt Road and Beyond

The debate on evolving global politics cannot be divorced from China’s emerging role in the international system. Beijing’s global economic plans under the broader framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was formally known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), became the foundational stone of China’s global economic plans. The announcement of BRI…

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India’s Habituation with the Bomb

The international intellectual debates of non-proliferation politics usually adopt a critical framework for examining South Asian politics where the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapon capabilities have intensified the regional security environment of South Asia. The evolving complex regional security environment of the nuclearized subcontinent always remained dependant on the New Delhi-Islamabad strategic completion, which attracts…

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US Quest for containing China and the Creation of AUKUS

The American quest for undermining the economic rise of China has resulted in various multilateral strategic agreements with different states having similar strategic intentions. The formulation of an anti-China alliance within the western bloc has recently introduced a US-sponsored trilateral framework agreement with Australia and United Kingdom (UK) in the fields of defence, security, and…

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Muslim Modernism

The international scholarly debates on the ideological politics of the subcontinent mainly emphasize the growth of Islamic ideology under the influences of different political parties and social movements. The leading intellectual circles of different states have produced many different levels of analysis on the role of ideology generally and Islam specifically in mainstream politics of…

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Indian Disinformation Campaign and its Impact on Cricket Diplomacy of Pakistan

The significance of sports diplomacy cannot be marginalized in world politics because the arrangement of various games at bilateral and multilateral level strengthens people-to-people contacts between States. Governments have always tried to improve their standing in the world through promoting their soft image with the help of sports (and other means) of diplomacy. The greater…

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Pakistani Perspectives

The international debate on South Asian nuclear politics usually adopts an inadequate approach when examining the strategic capabilities of both India and Pakistan. The leading global academic communities try to communicate their arguments on the South Asian nuclear arms race by adopting different angles for New Delhi and Islamabad. The decades-long rivalry between India and…

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Future of Great Power Politics

The role of the great powers in world politics always affects the multidimensional interactions of various states in different regions, the politics of the Cold War is an example of this aspect. The bipolar dimension of the international system under the hostile designs of Moscow and Washington affected the politics of different regions while avoiding…

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Artificial Intelligence

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on modern warfare cannot be marginalized in the world of evolving digital infrastructures of states. The application of emerging technologies in the field of security and defense has created a strategic environment where leaders of various nations have started upgrading the conventional structure of armed forces. The quest for…

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US Strategic Competition Act 2021

The designs of great power politics have started revolving around Washington-Beijing strategic competition where American state officials have translated the Chinese economic rise as a potential threat to Washington’s global standing. The American perception of perceiving China as a potential threat is inherited in Washington’s global geostrategic interests, which instructs all US state authorities to…

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Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia

The debate on the strategic dimension of South Asian politics and its varying patterns under the influences of India-Pakistan protracted conflict has always attracted intellectual circles of the international community. The proponents of arms control and disarmament and the advocators of international non-proliferation regime generally focus on the South Asian nuclear politics in their analysis….

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