Security & Conflict
Strategies for combating international terrorism in Central Asia
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has been cast as
the site of a new "great game". Central Asia has been largely
influenced...
Fighting Terrorism Online: EU Internet Forum committed to an EU-wide Crisis Protocol
The participants of the 5th EU Internet Forum,
hosted by Commissioners Avramopoulos and King, have committed to an EU Crisis
Protocol – a rapid response to...
Time for a New Approach to Conventional Arms Control?
The return to an outright deterrence relationship
between NATO and Russia involves the danger of an arms race and a number of
military risks, particularly in...
China’s new military technologies
According
to some international press and media sources, China is investing significant
sums of money in some dual-use technologies - i.e. both civilian and military
at the...
US Strategy after the INF Treaty: Implications and Projected Outcomes
Thirty-one
years ago, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty placing a
curb on nuclear weapons after...
Big power rivalry in the Gulf requires a US strategy rethink
As French, Pakistani and other leaders seek to engineer a meeting
between the US and Iranian presidents on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly,...
Highlighting India’s WMDs at the UNGA
As Prime Minister Imran Khan prepares for
his first address to the UN General Assembly next Friday, he does so against
the backdrop of heightened geo-political...
Iranian intelligence agents operating via Iranian embassies
The United States recently designated the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military
arm of the Iran regime, as foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Is this...
The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil wells
In the
early morning of Saturday, September 14 last, at 3.31 and 3.42 a.m., the Yemeni
Houthi Shiite rebels supported by the Iranian "Revolutionary Guards"
- the...
Pakistan’s Skepticism on India’s NFU Policy Stands Validated
The South Asian region is widely regarded
as vulnerable to the threat of nuclear war. This is largely because of the
Kashmir issue’s dangerous potential as...