Security Brief: North Korea Summit Back On; End of the Korean War? By Elias Groll
It might actually happen. American and North Korean negotiators met for a fifth round of preparatory talks at the border …
Read MoreForeign Policy Challenges | Editorial
A COHERENT, well-formulated and popularly supported foreign policy is essential, especially in an age of globalisation when new and daunting …
Read MoreA Better North Korea Strategy By Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz
When it comes to cultivating unpredictability, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seem eager to …
Read MoreIran calls on world to stand up to Trump, save nuclear deal By Agencies
LONDON: The world should stand up to Washington’s bullying behavior, Iran’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday by …
Read MoreIndia to play US proxy in Asia? By M. Ziauddin
India is clearly being prodded by the US and its own overambitious hawks into a confrontational mode vis-Ã -vis China. Their …
Read MoreWhat Will It Take for Syrian Refugees to Return Home? By Maha Yahya
Syria’s 18 million people make up less than one percent of the world’s population, but a whopping one-third of all …
Read MoreAmerica’s Next Move in Afghanistan By Saima Siddiqui
Most aspects of life are often imitated by art and games. In the case of politics especially, the game of …
Read MoreThe Decline and Fall of US Diplomacy By Philip Stephens
Rex Tillerson proved a hapless US secretary of state. On the evidence so far, his successor Mike Pompeo will turn …
Read MoreNuclear Pakistan: Bolstering Strategic Stability in South Asia By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
28 May 1998 saw the birth of the seventh nuclear-weapon-state when Pakistan decided to respond to India’s nuclear tests carried …
Read MoreNuclear Mainstreaming By Yasir Hussain
The Western academic community agrees that, had India not detonated its nuclear devices, it would have been almost impossible for …
Read MorePakistan’s Aspirations From The Upcoming SCO Summit By Muhammad Asif Noor
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s 18th Summit of Heads of States is just around the corner in Qingdao, the host city in …
Read MoreUS Trade War or Recipe For Disaster By Rashid A Mughal
OVER 1,100 leading economists sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the president to reverse course on recent trade …
Read MoreImpact of the US’ Exit From the Iran Nuclear Deal By Sonia Naz
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed in 2015 between P5+1 (US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany) …
Read MoreWorld Bank Disappoints Pakistan By Iqbal Khan
THE Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is a profoundly important international agreement that provides an essential cooperative framework for India and …
Read MorePerception and Misperception on the Korean Peninsula By Robert Jervis and Mira Rapp-Hooper
North Korea has all but completed its quest for nuclear weapons. It has demonstrated its ability to produce boosted-fission bombs …
Read MoreSyria And Disarmament | Editorial
The international community is up in arms over disarmament. Or, to be more precise, Britain and the US are more …
Read MoreNuclear Supplier Group’s Upcoming Plenary By Beenish Altaf
With the approaching of the twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an elite nuclear cartel to control …
Read MoreThe Pak-Russia Strategic Realignment By Amna Tauhidi
The end of Cold War witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs: a transition from bipolar world to a unipolar …
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