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New Normal of Deliberate Escalation Between India and Pakistan

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The May 2025 crisis between India and Pakistan reflects a shifting security paradigm in South Asia where deliberate escalation increasingly unfolds under the shadow of nuclear deterrence. The integration of advanced technologies has lowered traditional thresholds of conflict while expanding the scope of engagements. The weaponization of non-traditional domains such as water resources and information space further highlights the multidimensional nature of contemporary warfare between the two states. While third-party mediation helped avert full-scale war, it remains insufficient in addressing the deeper structural causes of recurring instability.

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Let’s Tune In To The EU’s Periphery: Greece Cancels Visas For Pakistanis Causing Outrage

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Hundreds of visas have been cancelled for Pakistani workers hoping to work in Greece. This has left Pakistanis out of thousands of euros they spent in order to obtain the visas. This has led to an extreme reaction online which may continue to strain relations between the two nations.

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Fighting Extremism in Pakistan – Local Actions, Local Voices

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In this conference, “Fighting Extremism in Pakistan – Local Actions, Local Voices” Dr. Anita Weiss tells us about her new book: “Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan”. She describes how Pakistanis engage in powerful actions that reject extremists and transform how people think about society. The moderator is Michael Kugelman, and the Panelists are Qaisar Abbas and Aftab Siddiqui.

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(Analysis) Critical Minerals and the U.S.–China Strategic Playbook

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In 2026, the United States and China are advancing competing strategies to secure critical minerals supply chains and strengthen their positions in the evolving international order. This article explores the key developments, policy initiatives, and strategic trends driving the critical minerals race, highlighting how resource nationalism is becoming an important determinant of national power and geopolitical leverage.

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[Report] A Silent Arms Race? North Africa and the Middle East: Recent Military Acquisitions

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The Middle East and North Africa remain among the world’s largest arms-importing regions, driven by geopolitical tensions, proxy conflicts, and rapid military modernization. Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco, and Egypt are expanding their defense capabilities through advanced aircraft, drones, missile systems, and strategic partnerships with powers including the United States, France, China, and Russia. At the same time, regional actors are increasingly investing in domestic defense industries and drone technologies, reshaping modern warfare across conflicts in Libya, Yemen, Syria, and beyond. The proliferation of unmanned systems, combined with illicit arms transfers and ongoing rivalries, continues to intensify instability throughout the region.

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The Standardization Trap on the Durand Line: The Atrophy of Kinetic Deterrence

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The crisis along the Durand Line enshrines the failure of Pakistan’s Standardization Trap. Islamabad, captive to a technological illusion, has reduced asymmetric conflict to a mere matter of ballistic optimization, ignoring the political ontology of the threat. The systemic deployment of UAVs and the doctrine of Targeted Killings have not degraded the TTP; rather, they have regenerated its legitimacy, transmuting the geographical sanctuary into an ecosystem of ideological resilience. In this scenario of Inverted Strategic Depth, Islamabad’s technical hypertrophy masks a terminal sociological atrophy: the State strikes the void with millimetric precision, while the insurgency roots itself within the kinetic reaction itself, rendering technological sovereignty an exercise in costly futility.

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The Failure of State-Centric Counterterrorism: Misconception and Standardization in Post-2001 Afghanistan

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The collapse of Kabul was no mere operational mishap; it was the final epitaph of a global security model crippled by doctrinal hubris. The failure of Mission Resolute Support is rooted in the Standardization Trap—the illusion that linear institutional models can be exported into contexts that inherently reject their ontology. Through systematic mirror imaging, the West mistook asymmetric resilience for pyramidal hierarchies, reducing strategy to a futile exercise in military technocracy. This profound intellectual blindness reveals a stubborn insistence on fighting the enemy one desires to face, while ignoring the one that actually exists.

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Regime Resilience and the Limits of Coercion: Three Scenarios for the Iran War

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This analysis maps three scenarios for the US-Israeli war on Iran — frozen attrition, structural escalation, and regime change — evaluated along three axes: IRGC resilience, the limits of coercive strategy, and the fractures emerging within the Western alliance architecture.

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[Report] Türkiye’s Military Presence in the MENA Region: National Security and Foreign Intervention

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Türkiye’s new foreign policies are implemented through increasing military prowess and expanding political projection in the region.

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[Analysis] Mattei Plan from North African Countries’ Perspective

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Since the invasion of Ukraine, the supply of accessible and reliable energy supply has become an urgent question for several European countries. Simultaneously new global actors like Russia and China seem to have inaugurated a new “scramble for Africa”. As a reaction to this changing world order, Italy has developed a new Africa strategy. According to the Piano Mattei Plan this article will look into a renewed Italian commitment in Africa, putting a special focus on North Africa and its former colony Libyia.