The arms race between India and Pakistan has always remained a gravitational point of South Asian regional politics. The decades-long multileveled hostility between New Delhi and Islamabad have always attracted the attention of the international community towards the strategic competition of South Asian nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. The two governments have developed uncompromising positions…
The Indian quest for maintaining its regional hegemonic status in the nuclearized subcontinent led New Delhi to acquire advanced weapon systems against its territorially adjoining nations. The Indian decision-makers have recognized the role of strong Armed Forces as an essential element of New Delhi’s strategic thinking, which is persistently focusing on expanding Indian borders in…
The troubled history of India-Pakistan relations has always remained a gravitational point of international academic debates. The intellectual circles from different corners of the world have produced sufficient literature on the changing dimensions of the India-Pakistan rivalry based on their varying viewpoints. Thus, the contesting arguments of global intellectual communities witnessed similar trends in the…
The US-sponsored global war on terror and its worldwide promotion opened another chapter in the history of South Asia, where the pair of nuclear weapon states are good rivals and bad neighbours. Pakistan’s decision to join the US-led global counterterror campaign made Pakistan a frontline state in America’s international counterterror efforts. Pakistan’s alliance with the…
South Asian politics cannot be divorced from the influences of great powers due to the intense regional security environment of the nuclearized subcontinent and its increasing reliance on politics of extra-regional powers. The two nuclear weapon states from South Asia have always remained ambitious for acquiring support of external payers while developing various inflexible national…
The debate on the India-Pakistan strategic competition and its negative impact on regional security environment of South Asia has taken a new turn with the arrival of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. Under his leadership New Delhi has reformed its foreign relations with different states. The impact of Modi’s ideas, first in…
The global nuclear debates started focusing on South Asian regional politics with the prevalence of nuclear shadows on the decades-long India-Pakistan rivalry. Academic circles of the international strategic community diverted their attention towards the South Asian nuclear order while developing their analysis on the India-Pakistan strategic competition. Apart from fluctuating viewpoints, the Indian and Pakistani…
The history of nuclear politics has witnessed various developments of arms control and disarmament initiatives in which the proponents of the international non-proliferation regime adopted various measures for regulating nuclear behaviour of different states. The quest for effectively countering the states’ desires for transforming nuclear technology from a peaceful to non-peaceful dimension has always been…
A refined version of New Delhi’s foreign relations under the Modi regime has improved the Indian position in world politics where the leaders of different nations have started developing cooperative relations with India. The combination of economic and strategic ties with India has let the international community to consider New Delhi as an important player…
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…
