Pakistan’s Strategic Balance Between Global Powers and Domestic Perceptions
The global geopolitical landscape in 2025 is, by almost any measure, in a state of profound flux. Longstanding post‑Cold War assumptions about the endurance of a U.S.‑centered unipolar world have been overtaken by a more complex, unevenly articulated multipolar reality. Deepening rivalry between
The Great Unraveling: Strategic Adaptation or Systemic Collapse in the International Order?
By Hesham Sultan Ijaz What we are witnessing today is not the quiet decay of an aging international system, nor an accidental drift into disorder. It is something far more deliberate—and far more dangerous. The post–1945 international order is being dismantled in plain
Terrorism as a Systemic Outcome of Alliances, Rivalries, and Border Politics in the Global Order
By Ijaz Naser The global manifestation of terrorism over the past half-century cannot be adequately explained through ideological extremism, religious motivation, or isolated state failure alone. Rather, terrorism has emerged as a systemic by-product of the international order itself—shaped by alliance structures, geopolitical
Grand Strategy – Beyond Strategy
By: Ijaz Naser The End of Strategic Fog: War After Elusiveness For most of recorded history, warfare has been governed by uncertainty. From Sun Tzu’s emphasis on deception, through Clausewitz’s “fog and friction,” to twentieth-century doctrines of surprise and maneuver, strategy has relied
Rise Of Proxy-Driven Interventions, And The Growing Imprint Of External Powers
By Hesham Sultan The contemporary international system has entered a phase in which conflict is no longer defined solely by open warfare between sovereign states, but rather by a continuum of coercive interactions that operate across military, political, economic, informational, and diplomatic domains.
Power Defines Logic: A New Strategic Communication
By: Ijaz Naser What has unfolded in Venezuela is more than an isolated crisis—it represents a structural shift in global power dynamics that reverberates far beyond the Western Hemisphere. Repeatedly framed as an exceptional response to extraordinary governance collapse, humanitarian distress, and criminalized