Analysis

Afghanistan peace and reconciliation process as a strategic factor was at the forefront during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s U.S. visit and meeting with President Donald Trump. PM Khan maintained Pakistan’s stance that ‘use of force’ […]

Strategic stability in South Asia has been the dominant regional and global concern for quite some time. Several dynamics, such as conventional asymmetry, a burgeoning arms race and the presence of nuclear weapons have created […]

On July 10-11, 2019 Pakistani diplomats joined their  US, Russian and Chinese counterparts in Beijing to discuss the Afghan peace process. The talks were aimed at strengthening efforts towards an intra-Afghan dialogue between the Taliban […]

Alliances in international relations are marriages of temporary convenience(John J. Mearsheimer) Despite the doubts and speculations, Prime Minister Imran Khan has been scheduled to meet the American President Donald Trump on 22 July 2019. This […]

The concept of export controls is very old; societies have always endeavoured to preserve their limited resources and protect their security by enacting such measures. The export of crossbows was prohibited in medieval times, and […]

Since the end of Cold War and the obsolescence of the bipolar world order, global politics took a new and unprecedented turn. Realists in international relations thought surmised that because maintaining balance in a multi-polar […]

The Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – commonly known as the Iran deal, met in Vienna on June 28, 2019 to discuss the implications of the U.S. sanctions and Iran’s […]

The CTBT is a binding, yet not an in effect treaty, formulated in 1996. It imposes a moratorium on all nuclear testing for either military or civilian motives. The treaty has not entered into force […]