Analysis
What Price Freedom!
“It’s good when the oppressed fight for their rights – as long as they do it away from us.” The young lady who made this statement earned my gratitude for her compassion and her honesty. […]
Environment
2050 Climate Prospects – Are We Heading Toward A New Dark Age?
Voltaire must have been referring to nature and climate when he wrote, “Men argue. Nature acts”. At a time when people are required to consider forest-fires, bushfires, and heavy rainfalls in course of planning holiday […]
Analysis
Reading the Peace Vision
Third-party initiatives to broker peace between Jews and Palestinians have had within them an embedded element of partiality toward one side. The Balfour Declaration, a letter written in 1917 by Arthur Balfour, the-then Foreign Secretary […]
Pak India Crisis 2019
The Kashmir Impasse
The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been festering for over seven decades, ever since the two nations became independent countries in 1947. Two wars (1947 and 1965) and two serious skirmishes (Siachen and […]
Analysis
Assessing International Endorsements on Pakistan’s Kashmir Stance
Despite the tumultuous developments that have taken place over the last year, the Kashmir issue has once again intensified considerably within the last few weeks. The emergent security dynamics of the South Asian region are […]
Analysis
The Other Frontline: South Asia in the Emerging Great Power Competition
The collapse of the Soviet Union sealed the fate of the realist-bipolar world order and the United States – the leader of the so-called free world – ascended triumphantly. It asserted itself as a liberal […]
Analysis
One Year of Pulwama: Mapping the Nuclear Rhetoric
On 27th February 2019, India and Pakistan came close to the brink of a major war for the fifth time in history. Pakistan’s ‘Quid Pro Quo Plus’ policy against a limited Indian attack was manifested […]
Analysis
Donald Trump’s Bharat Yatra
US President Donald Trump’s maiden visit (yatra) to India (Bharat) has been deemed a roaring success by the spin doctors. Let us briefly examine the positives of his historic visit. Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, […]
Analysis
Indian Force Modernization and The Looming Shadows of Arms Race in South Asia
A new cycle of arms race is on the horizon as major powers strive for power projection. Rapid force modernization has initiated a domino effect across various regions, coercing states into an arms race. Global […]
Analysis
India’s ‘Surgical Strike’ Doctrine: Implications for South Asian Strategic Stability
One year ago, on Feb 27, 2019, India and Pakistan engaged in a short aerial encounter that led to the shooting down of two Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft while an MI-17 helicopter was lost […]