On Foreign Policy, India Is Reliably Unreliable
The shifting balance of power obscures the continuity in India’s global ambitions. Read More Here
Tag: Pakistan
The Global Leadership India Needs
For decades, Indian governments have focused on domestic issues like economic growth. But with China encroaching on its territory, Pakistan allying with the Chinese, and its eastern neighbors struggling with economic and political crises, India must take a leading role in ensuring regional stability. Read More Here
A Year After The Fall Of Kabul
For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell. Read More Here
India’s Gamble In Afghanistan
The Taliban’s nascent rapprochement with New Delhi portends a stunning shift in regional dynamics, as stronger ties with India could eventually allow Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government to distance itself from Pakistan. Read More Here
France, China Fuelling India, Pakistan Sub Race
In an apparent underwater warfare tit-for-tat, India and Pakistan are bolstering their conventional submarine fleets with French and Chinese assistance respectively. Read More Here
Not At Any Price: LBJ, Pakistan, And Bargaining In An Asymmetric Intelligence Relationship
The U.S.-Pakistani relationship in the 1950s and 60s suggests that judging the other state’s dependence and alternatives may be particularly difficult under conditions of secrecy. American and Pakistani leaders negotiated the terms allowing the United States to collect intelligence on Soviet and Chinese weapons programs from Pakistan, but with limited outside input, each side overestimated […]
Top Pakistan Diplomat Details Taliban Plan
Be realistic. Show patience. Engage. And above all, don’t isolate. Those are the pillars of an approach emerging in Pakistan to deal with the fledgling government that is suddenly running the country next door once again — Afghanistan’s resurgent, often-volatile Taliban. Read More Here
Scathing Report Highlights Why US Failed In Afghanistan
While the world discusses the ramifications of the end of a two-decade of US presence in Afghanistan and the swift return of the Taliban, which quickly took control of the country and its capital even before the last American boots left the country, it becomes a must to read a scathing US government report that […]
9/11 In Islamabad: The First 72 hours
No one could possibly have foreseen that the 20th year observation of the events of 9/11 would be bookended by Taliban governments in power in Kabul. What is needed now is less recrimination about the causes of this catastrophic outcome and more careful, somber — and humble — reflection on the limits of U.S. power… […]
American Credibility After Afghanistan
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and sudden collapse of the government in Kabul have led critics of President Joe Biden to argue that American credibility has been dealt a staggering blow. Read More Here
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