Learning to Live with The Bomb, Pakistan: 1998–2016

Regional politics of the nuclearized subcontinent in the presence of protracted India–Pakistan rivalry has become a topic of immense importance and lacks a balanced approach internationally. The leading strategic circles of intellectual community always try to avail opportunities for discussing the South Asian nuclear race in a different perspective. No doubt, the environment caused by…

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Shooting for a Century

The conflict ridden South Asian security environment has always posed a difficult question for promoting international non-proliferation campaign and durable peace through diffusing inflexible the standings of states against each other. Historically, the departure of the British with the end of colonial rule under the global wave of decolonization added a new chapter in the…

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Perilous Interventions

Questions of peace, security, human rights, justice and development have always been of great concern to the international community. The established global intergovernmental platforms love to talk about international issues by passing Resolutions and maintaining documented records of their efforts. So, the archival history of world politics witnesses countless attempts of world leaders for improvement…

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Negotiating the Siege of the Lal Masjid

The tragic incident of 9/11 and the onset of American-sponsored war on terror internationally significantly changed the traditional patterns of world politics. The conventional standards for dealing with the security challenges have become an outdated outfit in the twenty first century. The overwhelming wave of non-traditional security challenges forced states to formulate a multilateral framework…

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What We Won

The contemporary history of world politics is undeniably rooted in the intense US–USSR confrontation under the prolonged conflict of the Cold War. The global competition to dominate the international system by acquiring the status of global hegemon between capitalist and communist forces of Washington and Moscow shook the foundations of international global affairs. The period…

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Afghan Taliban: War of Ideology, Struggle for Peace

The global environment of terrorism has created a worldwide disorder and insecurity by altering the traditional standards of evolving world politics. The theoretical foundations of terrorism and its conceptual association with international system have considerably shaken the well-structured and well–organized Westphalian state system. The modern state system encircled by clandestinely functioning terrorist networks is becoming…

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A State in Denial

The troubled bilateral values cemented in the inflexible national standing and incompatible behaviors of state officials from New Delhi and Islamabad have always remained a subject of importance and significance for the international community. The intellectual groups of South Asia are continuously expressing their views on the rather toxic Indo–Pak relations. The contribution and role…

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Pakistan at the Crossroads

The application of an appropriate strategy for addressing internal security challenges while dealing adequately with external pressures has become a major problem of Pakistan, and a topic of immense importance for the international community. The existential threats of ethno–religious strife from inside have inaugurated a critical debate globally on Islamabad’s contemporary standing in the region….

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