Security & Conflict
The State of National Security Education and Beyond: The CFR Educators Workshop 2019
The Council
of Foreign Relations (CFR) has provided leadership, guidance, and a forum for
discussion regarding all matters relating to international relations and
foreign diplomacy. Their flagship
journal,...
Indian Nuclear Safety After Nuclearization In South Asia
The geopolitics of the subcontinent is
best defined by the intense enmity comprised of bipolar equation i.e. India and
Pakistan. Both states are entangled with a...
Uzbek’s Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad changed its leader
On April
12, 2019, Central Asia's Salafi-Jihadist group Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad
(KTJ) issued a statement on the Telegram channel, in which it announced the
resignation...
Post-Pulwama False Flag Operation: Prediction and Reality
Since the
nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, the region has become a major component
of international security and stability. The recent military escalation and
de-escalation of...
India’s Space Ambitions
On March 27, 2019 India has tested its first ever Anti-Satellite (ASAT)
missile code named as ‘Mission Shakti’. India shot down one of its own...
Illiberals and autocrats unite to craft a new world media order
Underlying global efforts
to counter fake news, psychological warfare and malicious manipulation of
public opinion is a far more fundamental battle: the global campaign by
civilisationalists, autocrats,...
Khalifa Haftar’s military advance
Khalifa
Haftar's military advance-started in Jufra on April 4 last - passed from the South, namely Fezzan, and
partly from Central Libya, starting from
the Westernmost point...
BRICS, SCO and Kashmir Terrorism
On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber from the
Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organization drove a car filled with explosives into
a bus that was transporting members of...
Is Designating IRGC a Terrorist Organization a Right Decision?
Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), otherwise known in Iran as the so-called
‘Islamic’ Revolutionary Guard Corps, is designated as a terrorist organization on
Monday (April 8, 2019)....
Prospect of a nuclear war ‘higher than it has been in generations’
In a world defined by “competition over cooperation, and the acquisition
of arms, prioritized over the pursuit of diplomacy”, the threat of a nuclear
weapon being...