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Baluchistan under the British Administrative System
Frontiers have always been regarded as a chicken neck for almost all the states of the world. Analyzing the very importance of frontiers in...
Don’t Whitewash the Sri Lankan State’s Many Crimes
A recent article in these pages examines the Sri Lankan government’s battle against the Tamil Tigers, the activities of the Tamil diaspora and more....
Deconstructing Huntington’s thesis in the context of “Black Lives Matter” movement in the USA
Authors: Nalaka Jayasena and Punsara Amarasinghe
While writing an article to the famous Foreign Affairs, American polymath Joseph Nye jubilantly remarked that the COVID 19...
The name of the US system is not the “presidential system”
11 years after the United States declared independence from the British Kingdom, 55 people representing 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787....
The importance of Oil to Energy Development
The modern history and innovation of petroleum dates back to 1846 when the process of refining kerosene from coal was introduced. The credit for...
When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur
"Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots...
How War led to the advent of Market Economy
Evident throughout history is the belief that the bipolar divide of social reality has been between government and markets especially governments that wage war....
Spanish Flu and COVID-19 – are there lessons for the world of work?
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many look to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918/19, which killed an estimated 50 million people, or...
Yaum-e-Takbeer: Recounting Perceptions, Ideas and Resources
Enwrapped in a whirlpool of desire and compulsion, to achieve the ideals, is a key determinant in security perceptions of the two major powers...
Youm-e-Takbeer: When A Responsible Nuclear Power Was Born
Youm-e-Takbeer is a day of greatness when Pakistan already a responsible country was transformed into a strategically mature regional power. It sensibly understood the...