Thucydides trap: a case for Cino-US War- CSS International Relations Before settling in for pleasurable summer books, read Graham Allison’s “Destined for War: Can America and China escape Thucydides’s Trap?” A warning label: It’s going to scare the hell out of you. It starts …
The Nuclear Option Renewables Can’t Save the Planet—but Uranium Can Around the world, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy appears to finally be under way. Renewables were first promoted in the 1960s and 1970s as a way …
Is CPEC a new form of colonialism? CSS Pakistan Affairs The US$56 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a part of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ vision – has yet to translate into the ‘game changer’ envisioned by its sponsors. …
Climate change: A Bigger Threat to Pakistan than Terrorism-CSS Pakistan Affairs For decades, Pakistan has struggled to manage urgent crises, ranging from infrastructure woes to terrorism. While its policies focus on short-term conventional threats, a potentially devastating danger lurks in …
School girls-new freedom fighters in Kashmir-CSS Pakistan Affairs SRINAGAR, India — The first stone was heavy in her hand before she let it fly. It arced through the smoky air and hit the khaki leg of a soldier. She barely …
End of Enlightenment? CSS General Knowledge I WAS invited to lecture on ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Age of Global Terrorism’ at Missouri State University. Missouri is Trump country — he had a 70 per cent …
What do you think of when you hear the word “terrorist”? Big beards and brown skins? Turban-wearing Muslim migrants from the Middle East? Refugees maybe? Yet according to a report from the New America Foundation, “every jihadist who conducted a …
Understanding War in Syria – CSS General Knowledge What began as a peaceful uprising against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad six years ago became a full-scale civil war that has left more than 300,000 people dead, devastated the country and drawn …
India has not moved ahead from colonial legacy, what about Pakistan? CSS Current Affairs Around the start of the 18th century, as the Mughal empire started to fragment across India and European countries began their interest in the continent, India’s …
Future lies in Libraries and Books : CSS General Knowledge It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I …