One of the many puzzles in conflict studies is that wars cost blood as well as treasure; but they occur nonetheless. Why do states go to war even...
In his first tweet of the year, US President Donald Trump has accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorist organisations and of repeatedly...
South Asia is home to more than one-fifth of the world’s population, making it one of the most populous geographical regions in the world....
The global community has spent almost three decades trying to prevent the Kim regime in North Korea from moving its fingers towards the nuclear...
At long last, the advocates of nuclear disarmament have a reason to be optimistic about their journey towards achieving the goals of the Nuclear...
A general sense of political uncertainty has loomed the past few weeks as US President Donald Trump continued his abusive and dangerous rhetoric...
A general sense of political uncertainty has loomed the past few weeks as US President Donald Trump continued his abusive and dangerous rhetoric...
A general sense of political uncertainty looms as US President Donald Trump continues his abusive and dangerous rhetoric over the ongoing nuclear...
The US, along with eight other nuclear-armed states, remains unable to reduce reliance on threats to use nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, continued...
Over the past two decades, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization has emerged as one of the top-tier international organisations with an...
After conducting its sixth and significantly more powerful nuclear test, North Korea’s regime has left little doubt that it is on a collision...
As a student of the politics of nuclear non-proliferation, the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse causing the collapse of human civilisation on...
As of today, nine countries in the world are recognised as possessing nuclear weapons. These countries collectively have a total of 14,900 nuclear...
Something changed forever when the US dropped atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. On the 72nd...
One of the basic tenets of the realist theory of international politics is that power is based on the military capabilities and states always build...
In 1963, President Kennedy highlighted the threats posed by the possession and the very existence of nuclear weapons and called for a global effort...
“The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches us this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in...
On January 24, 1946, the UN General Assembly adopted its first resolution which called for “the elimination from national armaments of atomic...
This year marks the 18th anniversary of the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the US Senate in October 1999. During these 18 years,...
Pakistan, with one of the largest armed forces in the world, is home to more than 200 million people. According to most recent estimates, Pakistan...
Concerns about the proliferation of nuclear weapons began to emerge after the Chinese acquisition of nuclear capabilities in the early 1960s....
North Korea continues to expand its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, but the world remains clueless on how to deal with the rogue regime...
Nuclear states are not ready to recognise the threat posed by nuclear power and remain unwilling to pursue ‘good-faith negotiations’...
Until the late 1980s, the inter-paradigm debate in the international relations theory largely focused on the distribution of material power in...
Global efforts to halt the quantitative and qualitative nuclear arms race by preventing nuclear weapons testing started less than a decade after the...
What motivates congressional behaviour? How do members of the US Congress make decisions? These are the questions that have persistently failed to...
As the world finds itself in a phase of transition from the post-cold war, US-led unipolar international order to a multi-polar or non-polar global...
Since the end of World War I, realism has broadly been viewed as an over-arching paradigm in the discipline of international relations. Many other...
What prevents cooperation on climate change? In my previous column, ‘Failure on climate change’ , I tried to address this question by...
It would not be wrong to say that the complexities of modern democratic systems cannot be comprehended without a firm understanding of the role of...
Global warming is a serious and immediate threat that the survival of humanity is facing today. Substantial scientific evidence indicates that our...
Political representation is one of the most elusive concepts in political science literature, with many facets and theoretical complexities....
Over the past few decades, scholars and political pundits have debated whether race and ethnicity matter to American politics. During this period,...
The world has experienced a dramatic increase in economic trade and exchange between states over the past few decades. This increased economic...
Part - II Rational choice scholars propose that the failure of states to seek options short of war can be explained by a series of rational...
Part - I One of many puzzles in conflict studies is that wars cost blood as well as treasure, but nonetheless they occur. Why do states go to war...
The successful test-firing of the submarine-launched, nuclear-capable cruise missile Babur-III has made many people in our strategic community feel...
Millions of people in Pakistan and India live below the poverty line but our governments are too busy building a massive number of nuclear weapons...
Pakistan continues to strengthen and expand its nuclear capabilities – diversifying weapons, fielding new delivery vehicles and accumulating...
Authoritarian regimes in many countries often take decisions that prove to be disastrous for the political and economic well-being of millions of...
“Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims – not excuse...
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about...
India’s hopes of becoming the newest member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group have, finally, been quashed after the end of the inconclusive...
The whole world stood still in shock last week as Americans elected Donald Trump as their 45th president. If this election has proved one thing, it...
The UN made history last week when it voted to start negotiations for a global ban on nuclear weapons. For the first time since the advent of the...
If there is one thing that made the peaceful end of the cold-war period possible, it is that the nuclear powers always behaved responsibly and never...
The international community remains on edge as Pakistan and India have spent most of the past week exchanging accusations and war threats. In the...
There is little doubt left in the minds of nuclear scholars that North Korea has become a full-fledged nuclear weapons state. North Korea,...
As Pakistan renews its proposal for a bilateral agreement on non-testing of nuclear weapons, the world community remains mum on the issue. This...
The US, along with eight other nuclear-armed states, remains unable to reduce reliance on threats to use nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, continued...
