Global Order
Indus Waters Treaty at Crossroads: Pakistan’s Legal Response and India’s Position
One year after tensions escalated over the Indus Waters Treaty, the evolving dynamic between Pakistan and India presents a significant case study in the...
The Case Against False Symmetry
Brahma Chellaney's recent essay in The Hill raises a legitimate and important concern. The United States applies nuclear non-proliferation norms with troubling inconsistency. On...
Diplomacy in Motion: India’s Gulf Calculus Amid Regional Crisis
Warning against the rising interdependence in the international system, Ernst B. Haas had observed that “the kinds of systems change associated with rising interdependence...
Trump Pushes Lebanon and Israel Toward Historic Talks Amid Escalating War
A potentially significant diplomatic opening has emerged in the Middle East as Donald Trump announced that leaders from Lebanon and Israel are expected to...
War Back on the Brink as US Iran Talks Collapse After 21 Hour Showdown
After more than six weeks of intense conflict triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran, delegations from Washington and Tehran met in Islamabad...
Islamabad Talks on the Edge US Iran Deal Hangs in the Balance
Tensions between the United States and Iran have followed a turbulent trajectory since the Islamic Revolution, which reshaped Iran’s political order and severed formal...
The 90-Minute Miracle: How Pakistan Brokered the Impossible
Nobody had Pakistan on their bingo card for this one.
With just under ninety minutes left on President Donald Trump's deadline to destroy what he...
Pakistan Steps in as Power Broker in US Iran Crisis
Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator in ceasefire talks between the United States, Iran and Israel, hosting negotiations in Islamabad. The announcement of...
Iran, Trump, and the Imperial Licence to Break the Law
Donald Trump’s war on Iran has done what imperial wars often do. It has stripped the familiar vocabulary to the bone. The old words...
The New Non-Alignment
When Leverage Replaced Loyalty
There is a diplomatic category error that shapes almost all Western analysis of the Global South, and it goes something like...