Muhammad Feyyaz (New York: Routledge, 2026), ISBN: 9781041218197 (Pages. 206) The significance of intellectual debates on the global issue of terrorism and its South Asian directions cannot be marginalised in the changing contemporary patterns of great power politics. The varying viewpoints of different scholars on the South Asian version of terrorism always present a different…
Contemporary Developments and Dynamics Najimdeen Ayoola Bakare (New York: Routledge, 2026) ISBN: 9781032956145 (Pages. 236) Pakistan’s Look Africa Policy, launched in 2017, was primarily aimed at exploring the untapped potential of African nations, which possess significant trade strengths. However, the inadequate growth of people-to-people contacts remained a serious challenge in this context. The prevailing disconnects…
(Jhelum: Book Corner Pakistan, 2025), ISBN: 978-969-662-622-0 (Pages: 320) The outbreak of a brief armed confrontation between the pair of South Asian nuclear contestants in 2025 has raised several questions in the existing literature concerning the role of deterrence between nuclear-armed states. The four-day armed clash between Islamabad and New Delhi has forced the global…
Comprehensive Historical and Strategic Analysis Neelum Nigar (Edited.) (Islamabad: Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, 2025),ISBN: 978-969-8772-23-9 (Pages: XV-321) The present phase of Pakistan-Russia relations has attracted the attention of international intellectual communities towards the South Asian political landscape, where Moscow has rationalised its intent to cultivate multidirectional cooperative bilateralism with Islamabad. State authorities of the…
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot presents a coherently robust claim about the transformational nature of the political project of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party to change the nature of Indian politics by re-interpreting decades of Hindutva sentiment into a political programme. According to the author,…
(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), ISBN: 978-3-031-91519-2 (Pages: XXI-285). Murad Ali’s scholarly contribution in the ongoing academic debate concerning the evolving Sino-Pakistan cooperative bilateral ties is an attempt to provide a different picture of the signed corridor project between the two countries. It is a timely study that places the corridor project (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor- CPEC)…
The intellectual debate on the idea of enlightenment defined by a Prussian Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, always remained an area of less scholarly importance in Pakistan due to the country’s explicit socio-cultural growth under specific ideological patterns centred in certain religious beliefs. Kant’s description of enlightenment starts the debate of Moonis Ahmar’s remarkable and brief intellectual…
The debate on Pakistan’s education system structured in several conventional patterns has always remained an area seeking sufficient attention from Islamabad-based policymakers parallel to maintaining an undeniable relevance with the contemporary challenges of Pakistan. The country’s current education system consisting of complex and multi-tiered arrangements is generally based on structural fragmentations, which hampered the government’s…
The recent history of world politics witnessed by the US-withdrawal from Afghanistan and the re-arrival of Donald Trump in American politics as the 47th President of the United States has altered the conventional framework of Pakistan-US relations. The cooperative ties between the two states have a long history of multidimensional bilateral engagements in diverse domains…
The debate on the developments in post-conflict scenarios and the inception of multilayered reconstruction efforts has gained momentous importance in the post-9/11 international system due to the global rise of non-traditional security threats. An overwhelming wave of literature has appeared from different corners of the world on the changing patterns of global security dynamics under…
