Attiq Ur Rehman

Dr Attiq-ur-Rehman is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, NUML. He is a prolific writer and regularly writes for different research journals and magazines. He constantly shares his intellectual insight on various national and international forums.

China – Pakistan – Iran

Raza Ali Khan, Trilateral Relations in the Changing World(Karachi: Paramount Books, 2023) ISBN: 978-627-310-024-1) (Pages: xxxiv, 330) The trilateral relations between three Asian neighbours, China-Pakistan-Iran have always lacked scholarly attention. The leading academic circles of international intellectual communities generally emphasise upon the positions of these three states in their respective Asian sub-regions. The varying academic…

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The Road to Balance in Asia Pacific

The contemporary debates on the changing patterns of great power politics focus on Asia Pacific politics and its growth under the shadows of international power politics. The contesting postures of great powers in the Asia Pacific region have attracted the attention of international academic communities, and it has resulted in a plethora of literature explaining…

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The Security Imperative: Pakistan’s Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy

Zamir Akram, The Security Imperative: Pakistan’s Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy (Karachi: Paramount Books, 2023) ISBN: 978-969-210-917-8 (Pages: xxxvii, 457). The post-nuclearized era of South Asian politics dragged the attention of the international academic community towards changing patterns of New Delhi-Islamabad strategic competition under the nuclear shadows. In this scenario, the international strategic community started expressing…

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Subcontinent Adrift

South Asian regional politics have become one of the few gravitational points of international academic debates due to the multileveled, conflicted India-Pakistan interaction under the nuclear shadows. The leading circles of international strategic communities always remained active in expressing varying opinions on the evolving New Delhi-Islamabad strategic competition and the spill-over effects of this competition…

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Introducing International Relations

Introducing International Relations is an insightful and comprehensive guide to understand the theoretical dimensions of the International Relations (IR) discipline and the application of core concepts of IR in the contemporary world politics. It is a co-authored study carried out by two Islamabad-based eminent scholars, Farhan Hanif Siddiqi and Muhammad Nadeem Mirza. Both are formally…

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Pakistan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan

The patterns of global power politics have started witnessing the growing cooperative ties between states at the trilateral and quadrilateral levels. This change has resulted in the emergence of various cooperative connections between territorially adjoining states beyond their traditional bilateral and multilateral collaborating frameworks. A recently held meeting among the government representatives of three neighboring…

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