India’s Potemkin reality
19/09/2023
India hosted the G20 summit from September 9 to 10 in Delhi. But it was amusing to see the steps it took to make the city more appealing, skilfully hiding its shocking realities.
Our Work
02/06/2023
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Team
04/05/2023
Meet Our Team The President Amb. Dr. Raza Muhammad Amb. Dr. Raza Muhammad Ambassador Dr. Major General Raza Muhammad (Retd) has held various prestigious command and staff assignments. He also served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Production. After retirement,
ISKP’s Presence in Afghanistan: A Growing Concern for Taliban
19/04/2023
By Abu Hurrairah Abbasi, He is a Graduate of International Relations from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and works as a Researcher with an Islamabad-based policy think tank Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad(ISSI). He can be reached at abuhurrairahah@gmail.com On March 9, 2023, an
Furqan Khan
17/04/2023
Job Title: Assistant Research Associate (ARA) Education: Bachelors in International Relations from the National Defence University, Islamabad. International Relations, South Asian Geopolitics, U.S.-China Strategic Competition, Great Power Interests, Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy. Currently, Khan is working on the impact of U.S.-China relations on
Our Potemkin Reality
13/04/2023
Potemkin reality is an oxymoron apparently, as “Potemkinism” is as divorced from reality as a gospel truth is from falsehood. The term is derived from the memory of a fake village created to impress the Russian empress during her visit to Crimea
Countering Terrorism: The Need for a U.S.-China-Pakistan Security Dialogue
07/04/2023
As the strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies, the echoes of Cold War 2.0 and camp politics get louder. While third-world countries are finding it difficult to navigate the great power politics, Pakistan, in particular, is experiencing intensified disruptive geopolitical forces. Irrespective of all
From Torpedo to Thaw
05/04/2023
As Saudi authorities gunned down more than 400 Iranian pilgrims during the occasion of Hajj in 1987, it was one of the worst scenarios to set in their bilateral relations. It was a torpedoed mosaic of bad blood interaction since then-on for
Is it Digital or is it Real?
03/04/2023
“Those who own and control the most powerful digital technologies will increasingly write the rules of society itself. Software engineers are becoming social engineers. Digital is political.” – Jamie Susskind Perhaps digital media platforms were only seen from some sort of an