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COVERING THE STRATEGIC BALANCE ACROSS SOUTH ASIA AND BEYOND

At the Center for International Strategic Studies we analyse the precarious balance of strategic interests, for your in depth insight.

Pakistan’s Consolidating Conventional Deterrence: An Assessment

by Maimuna Ashraf.... Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. During this time, Pakistan’s latent nuclear capability provided an effective deterrent, which served to offset the conventional and nuclear threats from India. However, twenty years since India’s [...]

REPORT: National Seminar on Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Challenges

ISBN:978-969-23235-4-3/2018 Biological Weapon Convention (BWC) prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of bioweapon was opened for signature in 1972. It was the first ever treaty completely banning the whole class of bioweapons. However, it lacked the mechanism for monitoring, implementation, and verification or compliance of the Convention provisions. State Pares held negotiations to correct this [...]

CISS Round Table with Ms. Lavinia Moiceanu on Strategic Connectivity of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in BRI on December 5, 2018

A Round Table on “Strategic Connectivity of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor under Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)” was held at the Center for International Strategic Studies on Wednesday, 5th December, 2018. Ms. Lavinia Moiceanu, who worked as an intern at CISS, presented her research as a part of her PhD Thesis on the economic, [...]

Chairman JCSC Zubair Hayat’s Speech at CISS Book Launch “Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists” on November 09, 2018

Allow me to begin by complimenting CISS and its ‘leadership’ for making the Centre, in a very short time, as the ‘vanguard’ of some of the best ideas, solutions and publications on strategic affairs. The intellectual contributions by CISS are indeed valuable and help ‘enrich’ and ‘shape’ our strategic thinking, which is ‘essential’ to meeting [...]

S-400: An Addition to India’s Ambitious Mosaic of Offense-Defense Capabilities

by Maimuna Ashraf.... India’s pursuit of advanced military technologies has enabled it to secure its place among the world’s top importers of conventional weapons over the past two decades. India has also been investing in developing missile defenses for a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield coupled with an integrated, and multi-layered air defence network. After [...]

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