In the span of nine months, the states’ abilities to weather existential crises have been put to the test. Success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic has varied; in many cases,…

The recent six weeks war between Armenia and Azerbaijan started on September 27, 2020 and ended with a Russian-brokered peace deal on November 10, over the Nagorno Karabakh (NK) region….

Military exercises are the highest form of military training and real-time application of theoretical knowledge. The objective of the military exercises is to increase the combat readiness, training, and learn…

Hinduism is “dharma” or a code of conduct; a disjoint from fundamentals is at the locus of its peculiarity. Its amorphism personifies its millennial survival and resilience. It is identified as one…

Malaysia’s relations with China and the United States (US) have remained cordial, and Malaysia has taken an equidistant approach in dealing with their rivalry. It comes as no surprise that…

An internationally recognised border frames a state and binds it by its sovereignty. This border-framing defines the power of a state with respect to a particular piece of land. Hence,…

A few years ago, whenever one thought of Africa words like disease, poverty and crisis came to mind. Over the years, the resilient people of the African continent have turned…

Within Pakistan, the discourse on India’s Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) employing hybrid, i.e. strategic as well as non-strategic tactics against Pakistan has echoed for some time but with limited traction….

In his book “Escalation and the Nuclear Option”, Bernard Brodie warned analysts against conflating occasional outbreaks of violence with a failure of deterrence. Mercifully, one constant across nuclear ages has…

The world is going through several geopolitical changes, such as the relative decline of the US’ global pre-eminence, the return of major powers’ competition, Russia-China entente and the emergence of…