Security & Conflict
Terrorism and Extremism: Threat to the Security of Pakistan
Authors: Nabel Akram, Komal Tariq
There are some events happened when world has been divided, after the cold war the world moved to US allies...
Trilateral Militarization: From Missiles to Nukes (Part II)
In the Philippines, the proponents of the trilateral alliance frame it as a response to the “threat of assertive China.” In reality, the unwarranted...
Impending War with Iran: Israel’s Lawful Opportunity to Prevent Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Abstract: Israel’s “no choice” Gaza War has been fought primarily against sub-state terrorist adversary Hamas. In the coming weeks, however, a threatened “retaliation” from...
As Terror Attacks Target Chinese in Pakistan, Ruptures in the ‘Iron Brotherhood’
Five Chinese nationals were killed when a suicide-attacker rammed his explosive-laden car into into a bus transporting staff from Islamabad to the 4,320-megawatt Dasu...
Proxy Wars and the Global Stage: How Major Powers Fight Without Fighting
Authors: Meherab Hossain and AL-Kasmin Islam*
Great powers are once again resorting to proxy wars, manipulating weaker nations to fight their battles. This allows them...
Still Calculable Connections: Israeli Nuclear Deterrence and War with Iran
“The worst does sometimes happen.”-Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss Playwright
The author, Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres, has been lecturing and publishing for more than fifty years...
Covert warfare of Iran: A growing influence amid the Israel-Hamas War
The accelerating cauldron in West Asia with an incremental shift in battle lines is blatantly visible in the current geopolitics. While challenging the United...
AWS: A Threat to International Humanitarian Law or a Necessary Technological Evolution?
“A killing machine that does not rely on human commands to choose and eliminate its targets” sounds like something out of a dystopian movie....
Countering Militancy, Curtailing Terrorism: Pakistan’s Imperative Security Paradigm
From the coast and inland areas of Balochistan to the mountainous terrain up north, incidents of violence are on the rise. While the majority...
How the Taliban Have Inspired Global Terrorism and What to Do About It
The March 22nd’s spectacular complex terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall, twelve miles west of Kremlin, in Moscow is hardly new or surprising...