Vanishing Alliances Redefine Pakistan Strategic Position Across Fragmented Middle Eastern Realignments
BY SHAFQAT ALI QURESHI The Middle East is undergoing its most consequential geopolitical restructuring since the aftermath of the Cold War, and Pakistan risks entering this transition not as a central strategic actor but as a peripheral observer trapped between outdated diplomatic assumptions
Ideological Faultlines Recast Global Governance Architecture Today
BY SHAFQAT ALI QURESHI The contemporary global order is increasingly defined not by the absence of ideology, as was once assumed in the post-Cold War liberal moment, but by its intensified return in fragmented and competing forms. The assumption that globalization would converge
Deterrence in the Shadows India Pakistan and the Mutation of Conflict in the Hybrid Age
By: Shafqat Ali Qureshi The grammar of deterrence in South Asia has long been written in the language of nuclear parity, conventional force balance, and the uneasy stability that emerges when adversaries possess the capacity to inflict unacceptable damage upon one another. For