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Pulwama/Balakot and The Evolving Role of Third Parties in India-Pakistan Crises
Introduction India and Pakistan have witnessed multiple crises since their overt nuclearization in 1998. Although the two countries fought three major wars before their respective nuclear tests, the presence of nuclear weapons made post-1998 crises more dangerous and drew global…
اسلحے کی روک تھام کے ضابطوں کی منسوخی: جنوبی ایشیا میں ڈیٹرنس اور سلامتی پر اثرات
ٹرمپ انتظامیہ کی جانب سے روس کے ساتھ اسلحے کی روک تھام کے دو کلیدی معاہدوں انٹرمیڈیٹ رینج نیوکلیئر فورس ٹریٹی (آئی این ایف) اور حال ہی میں اوپن سکائیز ٹریٹی (او ایس ٹی) سے دستبرداری کے فیصلے نے اسلحے…
Unraveling of Arms Control Norms: Impact on Security and Deterrence in South Asia
The Trump administration’s decision to abandon two key bilateral arms control pacts with Russia, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) and recently the Open Skies Treaty (OST), is calling into question the arms control and non-proliferation norms which have long…
Civil Society Mobilization for Reducing Nuclear Risks in South Asia
In 2017 Sobia Paracha examined the role of civil society in reducing nuclear risks globally and in South Asia. In light of the recent 75th anniversary of Trinity test – the world's first nuclear explosion – her words, reproduced below,…
Accepting Mutual Vulnerability: What Nuclear Deterrence Teaches us About COVID-19
The entire world has been in the grip of the novel coronavirus for more than a couple of months now. The end of this fight is not yet in sight. Economies are in disarray, health facilities are overstretched, and all…
Enhancing Deterrence Stability on the Subcontinent: the Case for Conventional Deterrence
I. Introduction South Asia’s security landscape is intricate and dangerous. Two nuclear weapon states, India and Pakistan, stand locked and loaded on a long and volatile border. The nuclear dyad has experienced previous close calls with escalatory potential, from the…