Book Review

Zamir Akram, The Security Imperative: Pakistan’s Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy (Karachi: Paramount Books, 2023) ISBN: 978-969-210-917-8 (Pages: xxxvii, 457). The post-nuclearized era of South Asian politics dragged the attention of the international academic community towards changing patterns of New Delhi-Islamabad strategic competition under the nuclear shadows. In this scenario, the international strategic community started expressing…

South Asian regional politics have become one of the few gravitational points of international academic debates due to the multileveled, conflicted India-Pakistan interaction under the nuclear shadows. The leading circles of international strategic communities always remained active in expressing varying opinions on the evolving New Delhi-Islamabad strategic competition and the spill-over effects of this competition…

Introducing International Relations is an insightful and comprehensive guide to understand the theoretical dimensions of the International Relations (IR) discipline and the application of core concepts of IR in the contemporary world politics. It is a co-authored study carried out by two Islamabad-based eminent scholars, Farhan Hanif Siddiqi and Muhammad Nadeem Mirza. Both are formally…

“Grand Delusion” by Steven Simon provides a timely analysis of the dynamics that shaped American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era in the Middle East. The major theme of “Grand Delusion” revolves around the notion that American policymakers suffered from a persistent delusion that military force alone can bring about sustainable change and security…

In the ongoing academic debates on nuclear weapons and their impacts on the global world politics, different writers have established their viewpoints on the presence of nuclear weapons in the international system. The possession of nuclear weapons by major powers and the creation of an international non-proliferation regime are the factors which compelled the leading…

“Four Battlegrounds” by Paul Scharre is a fascinating account of emerging technologies especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) in military affairs and modern warfare. New technologies from the invention of gun powder, artillery, automobile, airplane, tank, and submarine have propelled revolution in military affairs throughout human history. The first computer-based model was used by the Russian military…

The Sino-Indian strategic contest has become an undeniable reality of the contemporary international system where the broader US-China multileveled competition has taken on many faces and affected the politics of different regions where South Asia and Southeast Asia are the exceptions. Indian increasing strategic collaboration with the United States and American growing global anti-Chines engagements…

India seeks to become an important player in global governance it being the world’s largest democracy and one of the fastest-growing economies. The Indian government has developed various models of multileveled economic and strategic engagements with other states from across the globe. India has also actively participated in various global governance forums, such as the…

The Prophet’s Heir is the biography of an exalted companion of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his cousin, friend, confidant and son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib. Hassan Abbas has written an excellent biography of Ali in the English language that covers all aspects of Ali’s life; this was published by Yale University Press. This work brings to…

A number of authors from across the globe have examined the history of the post-partition subcontinent because the British colonial retreat from the subcontinent laid the foundations of the enduring India-Pakistan rivalry and added another chapter in the history of the subcontinent. The partition ended the colonial era and initiated a multilevel hostility between two…