The 2014 Indian general elections for the selection of sixteenth Lok Sabha was completed in nine phases and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was declared victorious. Former Chief Minister of Gujarat and an active member of BJP, Narendra Damodardas Modi became the fourteenth Prime Minster of India. The change of government…
South Asian environment inherited in Indo-Pak toxic diplomatic interaction has always remained a source of interaction for the international community. Conventional asymmetry based on inflexible national behaviour of New Delhi and Islamabad has resulted in a disturbed regional political setting of South Asia. the Kashmir issue coupled with various points of disagreements of the governments…
The questions of peace and its association to the subcontinent have always remained the gravitation points of international debate on South Asia in light of the protracted Indo-Pak conflict. An extensive two-sided hostility introduced the nuclear arms race in the region in which India’s detonation of nuclear devices forced Pakistan to announce its nuclear weapon…
Regional politics of the nuclearized subcontinent in the presence of protracted India–Pakistan rivalry has become a topic of immense importance and lacks a balanced approach internationally. The leading strategic circles of intellectual community always try to avail opportunities for discussing the South Asian nuclear race in a different perspective. No doubt, the environment caused by…
Terrorism in Pakistan forced Islamabad to join the American-led war on terror and start a fight to prevent religiously motivated violent elements from becoming active on its soil. Pakistan’s determination for winning the battle against internal security threats pushed the entire nation into circumstances in which the government is doing its best to establish Pakistan…
The conflict ridden South Asian security environment has always posed a difficult question for promoting international non-proliferation campaign and durable peace through diffusing inflexible the standings of states against each other. Historically, the departure of the British with the end of colonial rule under the global wave of decolonization added a new chapter in the…
Questions of peace, security, human rights, justice and development have always been of great concern to the international community. The established global intergovernmental platforms love to talk about international issues by passing Resolutions and maintaining documented records of their efforts. So, the archival history of world politics witnesses countless attempts of world leaders for improvement…
The tragic incident of 9/11 and the onset of American-sponsored war on terror internationally significantly changed the traditional patterns of world politics. The conventional standards for dealing with the security challenges have become an outdated outfit in the twenty first century. The overwhelming wave of non-traditional security challenges forced states to formulate a multilateral framework…
The contemporary pattern of non-proliferation politics and its South Asian direction has generated a debate on the growing Indian nuclear program along with New Delhi’s desire to secure full membership of Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG). In 2005, a state visit of the US to India added a new dimension in the South Asian arms race…
The contemporary history of world politics is undeniably rooted in the intense US–USSR confrontation under the prolonged conflict of the Cold War. The global competition to dominate the international system by acquiring the status of global hegemon between capitalist and communist forces of Washington and Moscow shook the foundations of international global affairs. The period…
