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Nearly five decades later, the struggle unleashed between electoral legitimacy and military authority continues to define the Pakistani state.
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A proposed law ostensibly aimed at habitual offenders raises a larger constitutional question: who governs Punjab—the elected government or the security bureaucracy?
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As geopolitical fault lines shift across Asia, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan confront a new strategic landscape shaped by China’s rise, America’s changing priorities and the enduring burden of unresolved borders.
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Behind the headlines of terrorism and Track-II diplomacy lies a deeper struggle over regional influence and strategic legitimacy.
Read MoreThe Limits of American Power: Independence, Empire, and the Long Arc of Strategic Decline
From continental expansion to global hegemony, America’s strategic ascent was forged through war. The question now is whether Iran marks the beginning of its geopolitical retrenchment.
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How depleted missile inventories, industrial bottlenecks and domestic politics are reshaping American strategy in the Middle East
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In a multipolar nuclear world, the greatest constraint on atomic weapons is no longer technology but the political cost of breaking an eighty-year taboo.
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