Journal of Current Affairs Vol. 2, No. 1, 2017

 

 

Research Papers

1. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: A Threat to Pakistan?
   – Muhammad Nawaz Khan                                                                  1

2. Realignment: The UK-China Nexus and What it Means for Pakistan and CPEC
   – Muhammad Zarrar Saeed                                                                 27 

3. Analysis of Determinants for CPEC’s Success and Failure:
   Emerging Challenges and Lessons for Pakistan
   – Maryam Nazir                                                                                         51

4. Pakistan-India Relations under Prime Minister Modi’s Government (2014-16)
   – Aymen Ijaz                                                                                               74       

5. The Kashmir Dispute and Perceptions of Pakistan’s Youth: An Empirical Analysis
   – Khurram Abbas                                                                                      95

6. An Overview of Pakistan’s Security Situation after Operation Zarb-e-Azb
   – Saman Zulfqar                                                                                       116                               

Book Reviews

1. Tilman Pradt, China’s New Foreign Policy: Military Modernisation, Multilateralism
   and the ‘China Threat’ (2016)
   – Muhammad Munir                                                                            137

2. Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of
   Race in America (2016)
   – Khalid Chandio                                                                                   140 

3. Jakub J. Grygiel and A. Wess Mitchell, The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals,
   Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power (2016)
   – Aymen Ijaz                                                                                             143

4. Lars-Christian U. Talseth, The Politics of Power: EU-Russia Energy Relations
   in the 21^st Century (2017)
   – Gulshan Bibi                                                                                           146

5. Markus Daechsel, Islamabad and the Politics of International Development
   in Pakistan (2015)
   – Mehran Iqbal                                                                                          149

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