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“Imran Khan’s PTI-led coalition government in Islamabad collapsed due to their excessive reliance on charismatic leadership and his (Imran Khan) large fan-following –which could not compensate for very aggressive foreign
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Pipelinistan and geopolitics of energy security are South Asia’s (particularly India and Pakistan) major issues on the front burner -albeit of national security matter, and not peripheral options. Both neighbors
Washington reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already transformed the global economy—but not in the ways one might expect, FP’s Adam Tooze writes. “One lasting story of this war could be the
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ON the Coercive Arm of Government a new paper is available at the Princeton website. ABSTRACT: Policies to make police forces more representative of communities have centered on race. But
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By Mushahid Hussain: The retrenchment of American power in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world, coupled with the war in Ukraine, has provided a geopolitical breather for China.
By Adam Isacson for IPS: “The migrants try to organize themselves to stay safe,” a humanitarian worker told me as we stood near a town square in Reynosa, Mexico, steps
Continue readingUS Migration Policy Is Enriching Cartels at the US-Mexico Border
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility— A Gentleman in Moscow is a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of
The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos”, meaning people, and “kratos” meaning power. The process of voting backed by rule of law helps establish control of an organization
The Congress has voted to strip Moscow of its preferential trade status with the United States and to ban the import of Russian energy into the U.S. The legislation will
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Somini Sengupta, Global Correspondent, Climate, for The New York Times: I find most valuable in the new report this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us
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IRSHAD SALIM: Some comments shared with me on Pak-US relations – a HOT topic in Pakistan these days amid ‘Lettergate’: Sarwar, a political activist: “Simple. U.S. values us only when
Continue readingDoes the U.S. Perceive Pakistan as a Threat?