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Justifying a Pakistani Response to India’s Hybrid Warfare Campaign

Hybrid warfare has irreversibly changed the dynamics of war in the contemporary era. In a way, it can be perceived as forming a ‘new normal’...

Berlin Conference on Libya

What are the strategic, military and political differences between the war in Libya of  2011-2012 and the current conflict in post-Gaddafi Libya? There are many differences....

Pakistan Seeks Peace in the Region as well as Globally

Pakistani narrative is gaining momentum worldwide. Pakistan’s peace efforts in the Middle-East, Afghanistan, and any other part of the world are lauded and got well recognition....

Iran crisis: A high-stakes bet on who blinks first

Two sets of US government cables suggest that Iran hawks in and outside the Trump administration appear to have the upper hand as European countries give hardliners...

Meet Mikhail Mishustin, Russia’s new Prime Minister

Plucked from obscurity and little known in wide national political scene, the Head of the Federal Tax Service, Mikhail Mishustin, to become the new...

De-evolution of Europe: The equation of Communism with Nazism

It was indeed cynical and out-of-touch for the EU (Parliament) to suddenly blame, after 80 years, the Soviet Union for triggering WWII. It is unwise (to say...

Curing Malaysia’s National Psychosis

Malaysia has reached a chronic situation where the police are using the court system to suppress alternative points of view by banning closed door meetings of...

Assassination of Qassem Solemani: Strategic American Re-course

For Iran, international sympathy dissolved all very quickly. Ukrainian International Airlines 752 was downed by a surface to air missile; moments after it took off from Tehran....

External Implications of Domestic Reforms in Azerbaijan

The restructuring of the governance system, the appointment of Western-educated young professionals to the leading positions, and more decisive fight against corruption in energy-rich Azerbaijan promise a...

Swiss -Lanka Relations: Forging closer ties through Commercial Diplomacy

Sixty-five years on from establishing formal diplomatic ties between Switzerland   and Sri Lanka, both   nations have undergone notable foreign policy changes.  Reviewing the pros and cons on...

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