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Five Key Concepts to Understand the India-Pakistan Crisis
The recent India-Pakistan crisis drew global attention, but meaningful analysis requires applying an understanding of strategy and technology. This explainer, developed by Stimson’s Strategic Learning initiative, explores five key concepts — deterrence, the stability-instability paradox, escalation, standoff weapons, and crisis…
The Resolve Paradox in India-Pakistan Crisis Bargaining
In the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, a new India-Pakistan standoff emerged, leaving observers anxiously contemplating the implications of India’s escalation and Pakistan’s retaliation. After a four-day confrontation and a ceasefire, the dust is more or less settled on…
Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?
India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a crisis once again, following an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district of Indian-administered Kashmir last week. The attack, responsibility for which was claimed by a relatively…
Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack
The recent terror attack in Pahalgam, which targeted unarmed civilians and killed 26 people, marks a dangerous escalation between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan. The Resistance Force, a group widely believed to be associated with Pakistan-based and United Nations-designated terror…
Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses
As its first response to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, initially claimed by an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security issued a list of diplomatic, political, and non-military directives vis-à-vis…
U.S. Unilateralism on Arms Control and Impact on South Asian Stability
The world has been watching President Donald Trump’s every move closely since his return to the White House in January, and the implications of his presidency for global arms control loom large. The New START Treaty, the last remaining nuclear…