Analysis
Bracing for the New Year Challenges
While a new year always brings new hopes and aspirations, this is indeed a sobering start of 2021 with a multitude of challenges. At the dawn of the new year, countries across the globe are […]
Strafasia
Analysis
Protesting Farmers and the Indian Agrarian System
India’s farmers are witnessing a harsh winter, literally and figuratively, ever since the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government passed three farm bills in late September. Nation-wide protests and strikes have erupted across the country. […]
Economy
Plastic Banknotes: Faulty Reasoning, Out of Tune with the Times
The environment is now a key issue in the policies of many governments around the world. Recycling and sustainability are growing trends, with the tactless disposal of plastics no longer being considered an acceptable practice. […]
Emerging Technologies
ARTEMIS ACCORDS – A TOSS UP
The competition and cooperation in outer space is not something new in International Relations. Outer Space been an integral factor of military as well as socio-economic policy of three major space faring nations (U.S., Russia […]
Military
India’s War Rhetoric, a Pretext for False Flag Operation
India has long been trying to find a pretext for a false flag operation against Pakistan. A humiliating defeat in the hands of Chinese forces in Ladakh and Dokalam, its maltreatment of minorities, farmers’ protests, […]
Nuclear
Preaching the Choir: The Structural Issue with the TPNW
The proliferation of nuclear weapons is one of the most glaring challenges to global security. An imperfect non-proliferation regime strives to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Leading the pack, is the Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT), a […]
Economy
International Development Aid for Education – A Matter of Strategic Concern?
In the aftermath of 9/11, numerous systematic and functional shifts in the global system have accompanied the radical alteration in the geopolitical and geostrategic activities of major global powers. The merger of security and development […]
Environment
Dawn of the Drones: How South Asia is Learning to Evolve its Warfighting
‘Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital – pilots fly them, but aren’t in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects – the things they can do range from the mundane […]
Analysis
Normalizing Ties with Israel: Pakistan’s Stance
“Pakistan will never recognize Israel until Palestinians are given their right of a just settlement.” This was the statement given by Prime Minister Imran Khan after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established relations with […]
Analysis
Political and Technological Dimensions of Revolution in Strategic Affairs
From recent technological innovations to the initiation of the age of ‘Internet of Things’, humans have increasingly become dependent on technology. As rightly stated by the founder of World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, unlike the […]