The debate on Pakistan’s contemporary status in the changing regional and international strategic environment has started a new chapter in the history of the nuclearized subcontinent. Presently, critical circles of international community generally prefer to negatively examine the various phases of Pakistan’s political crisis and economic problems. In this way, an overwhelming wave of literature…
The decades long Germany-India strategic cooperation is inherited in the larger maritime cooperation between the navies of the two sides where various formats of dialogues for the flourishing of bilateral cooperation in the areas of commercial maritime security have been created. Representatives of the two countries have finalized a collaborative agreement to promote anti-terrorism and…
An Analytical Survey of Major Historical Shifts The ongoing Washington-New Delhi strategic bilateralism patterns cannot be separated from the South Asian regional politics where two nuclear powers have developed various points of disagreement. The quest for acquiring regional hegemonic status in South Asia has led Indian leaders to maintain strategically cooperative ties with extra-regional powers…
Asma Shakir Khawaja, The Grand Trunk Road to Confidence Building Measures Between Pakistan and India (Islamabad: National Defence University, 2018), pp. 334 The question of peace and its relevance to the South Asian region has been addressed by Dr Khawaja, who is presently working in an Islamabad based university. She has earned a doctorate from…
The results of the 2020 Presidential Elections in the United States have added another chapter in the history of the United States because the defeat of Donald Trump and the victory of a Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, is bound to alter Washington’s Republican-designed global engagement. The arrival of the new leadership in the White House…
Pakistan’s nuclear program in the presence of New Delhi-Islamabad rivalry cannot simply be studied without understanding the role of United States in South Asia. The American involvement in the subcontinent initiated from the British colonial retreat when an international wave of decolonization created Pakistan parallel to declaring India as an independent state. Further political developments…
The South Asian regional politics cannot be separated from the influences of extra-regional powers because the protracted Pakistan-India conflict attracts great power politics towards the nuclearized subcontinent. The hostility between Islamabad and New Delhi provides sufficient space to great powers in the regional South Asian political order and permits the great powers to be involved…
The debate on Pakistan’s Army and its role in addressing the mainstream security challenges has become one of the essential features of international intellectual communities. The academic communities’ circles from diverse backgrounds have varying opinions on the Army’s role in Pakistan. The book under review provides a comprehensive account of the army’s sacrifices and their…
The change of political leadership in the United States and the arrival of a Democratic candidate in the White House has turned over another chapter in American history. The victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 59th quadrennial presidential election is a defeat of Republican Donald Trump. Still, it contains substantial potential to bring…
The Lethal Autonomous Weapon System (LAWS) notion explains the technologically advanced military systems capable of working independently to search and engage targets based on a specific description that is linked to a computerized program. These automated weapon systems or digitally programmed armaments can carry military operations in space, land, water, underwater and air. So, LAWS’s…
