Security & Conflict
The forgotten science of cooperative threat reduction
The announcement that Russia had completed the destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile was rightly applauded as a milestone in multilateral arms control. However,...
Syrian Statelets and Intelligence Games: Al-Sham’s New Mukhabarat
A novel Alawite-Shi’a security network may be developing in the Assad statelet now defining western Syria. It consists of an archipelago layered with remnants...
Linking Resource Scarcity with Conflict
Resource scarcity can be explained through three principals. First is basic human security requires adequate resources in the specific location. The human population is...
Impact of Terrorism on Policy Making in South Asia Region
South Asia region has been raveling terrorism from decades. Despite having potential economic growth, in bulk of natural resources along with maritime possession and...
Pakistan’s Second Strike Capability: Implications for South Asian Stability
The aim of this paper is to analyze the implications of Pakistan Second Strike Capability on the stability of South Asia using the lens...
eBook: The Coming Cyber Storm- Examining the Russia-US-China Hacking Nexus
There can be no denying the importance of cyber-conflict and the potential of cyber-war in the 21st century. What was once restricted to the...
Is War Obsolete?
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the arguments in favor and against the obsoleteness of the war particularly after the cold war....
International Law and the underlying Extra-legal Factors that influence Terrorism
The world shivers at the mention of terrorism. As a matter of fact, modern terrorism has proven to pose the most serious threat to...
The Islamic State’s Foreign Policy
The ideology of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that conquered substantial parts of Syria and Iraq has been described...
Zapad 2017
The Zapad 2017 exercise will begin on September 14, 2017. It will be carried out jointly by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...