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India’s fastest growing nuclear weapons program
Few months before the Operation Shakti, in which India tested nuclear weapons in May, 1998. The former Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee, during his election...
China: The Democracy Question
China is not a democracy; at least not in the sense to which our western sensibility is acclimated. Starting in the 1980s (the period...
Why Western Finance Will Continue to Dominate the Stock Markets
Exclusive conversation with prof. Alessandro Pansa, Finance Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome and former CEO of Finmeccanica Group (now Leonardo SpA) the...
The Challenge of the Indigenous Arms Industry: The Ascendant and Dependent Classes
Just as Niccolo Machiavelli noted the unreliability of mercenaries and interpretations of Sun Tzu claiming a mercenary's real value is not more...
Choosing ‘the better evil’? The contrast effect and the relative nature of soft power
It is an established article of faith in the discipline of international relations that in formulating their foreign policies, in selecting certain courses of...
MIRVs: A Case Study for South Asia
T he test of surface-to-surface ballistic missile Ababeel is an effective attainment of a second-strike capability for Pakistan, reaching a major technology milestone...
The implications of Pakistan and India’s permanent membership of the SCO
T he next Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan in June 2017, when India and Pakistan are likely...
Xi Jinping’s future China
T he fifth session of the National People's Congress and the Fifth Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political...
King Salman Goes to Southeast Asia
L ast week, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud kicked off a month-long tour in Asia in a bid to win...
Metaphysics and strategic analysis
S peaking about metaphysics today seems almost an insult to the standard Western culture, all based on Reason and Feeling and on empiricism...