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Aden at the crossroads of regional security
In warfare, the fall of a strategically important city can reshape the destiny of an entire region. Aden, Yemen's…
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Ambassador (Retd) G.R. Baluch
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Can secular India survive saffronisation?
India's claim to secular democracy was never merely a constitutional arrangement. It was the organising idea of a…
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The Makkah Pact: Foundation stone of a West Asian charter of peaceful coexistence
For generations, West Asia has accumulated alliances, foreign military bases and increasingly sophisticated weapons…
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Democracy denuded: The form survives, the substance retreats
Sometimes there is profundity in despair. In a war-torn African country, a resident was once greeted with that most…
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Pakistan at 79 - deconstructing the colonial administrative legacy
As Pakistan completes 79 years of independence and enters its 80th year, celebration should increasingly be accompanied…
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The imperative of preserving human cognitive sovereignty in the age of AI
History advances through rare technological revolutions that redefine the trajectory of civilisation. The mastery of…
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Part II - The stability-instability Paradox in practice: The emergence of Asia's two nuclear belts
The recently announced United States-Saudi Arabia civil nuclear agreement should not be viewed merely through the…
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The Stability-Instability Paradox in a Multipolar Nuclearized Asia
Few observations in the history of strategic thought have proved as prophetic as Bernard Brodie's famous reflection…
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Ankara Summit 2026: NATO 3.0-what does it mean for the Atlantic Alliance and the world?
Part-II The transformation initiated at Ankara extends well beyond NATO's internal reforms. It reflects a broader…
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Ankara Summit 2026: NATO 3.0-what does it mean for the Atlantic Alliance and the world?
The Alliance's third strategic transformation signals the adaptation of the Western security architecture to an…
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Geopolitics and geography: From the Suez Canal to the Strait of Hormuz
Geography has often been described as destiny. Yet history demonstrates that geography is far more than passive…
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The limits of power from Vienna 2015 to Islamabad 2026 and America's return to diplomacy
The journey from Vienna in 2015 to Islamabad in 2026 tells a larger story than the troubled relationship between the…
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West Asia's Helsinki Moment
The recent Iran-United States-Israel confrontation may ultimately be remembered not for the missiles launched, the…
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From Containment to Coexistence
When Washington begins speaking of coexistence with Beijing rather than containment, the entire strategic architecture…
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Beyond dams and water wars : Towards a new ecological flobal order
When the rivers die, civilizations begin to decay. History's greatest civilizations were born beside flowing rivers…
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Beijing: The new center of global order
When both Washington and Moscow begin traveling to Beijing in search of strategic accommodation, it signals not merely…
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The romance and reality of a multipolar world
History rarely changes in a single dramatic moment. More often, global transformations unfold gradually until the old…
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The Gulf region needs a dome of friendship, not an Iron Dome
There are moments in history when wars do more than destroy military assets; they expose the fragility of entire…