The Saudi-Pak Mutual Defence Pact Is Mostly Symbolic For Soft Power’s Sake By Andrew Korybko Both want to “save face” after Israel’s attack on Qatar and remind fellow Muslims about the importance of more intra-Ummah military-technical cooperation, not set the stage… Read More ›
Pakistan Can Tip The Balance Of Power In Central Asia By Andrew Korybko Colluding with the US on destabilizing Afghanistan and returning Western military infrastructure to the region would turbocharge the emerging Turkic Bloc’s rise at the expense of Russia’s influence… Read More ›
Water Wars: How India-Pakistan River Politics Threaten Regional Stability By Uriel Araujo Tensions between India and Pakistan are rising amid accusations of water weaponization after floods displaced 1.8 million people. Control of the Indus River has long been a geopolitical fault… Read More ›
Why Did The US Raise The Terrorist Designation For A Group Of Anti-Chinese Militants In Pakistan? By Andrew Korybko One would think that the US would consider such a group to be an ally in its New Cold War with China…. Read More ›
Indo-Pakistani Rivalry Reshaping Global Geopolitics: A Conflict Neither Local Nor Over By Uriel Araujo The long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan is not confined to South Asia. The rivalry is entangling the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Eurasian alliances — posing… Read More ›
The US-Pakistan Rapprochement Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences By Andrew Korybko India’s, Russia’s, and possibly even China’s interests could be adversely affected. It was assessed in January that “The Pakistani Regime Destroyed Their Country & Betrayed Its National Interests For Nothing”,… Read More ›
It’s Premature To Predict A Crisis In US-Pakistan Relations Over Islamabad’s ICBM Program By Andrew Korybko Economic pressure, not military force, is a much more realistic means for the US to resolve this issue. Foreign Affairs’ recent article about “How to… Read More ›
ISKP’s War On Baloch Separatists Deepens Pakistan’s Multi-Front Crisis By Uriel Araujo The Islamic State Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) declaration of war against Baloch separatists intensifies Pakistan’s volatile conflict landscape, intertwining religious extremism with ethnopolitical strife. This escalation, amid ongoing Indo-Pakistan tensions,… Read More ›
Why Did Russia Lend Credence To Trump’s Claim That He Personally Stopped The Indo-Pak Conflict? By Andrew Korybko The rise of Russia’s pro-BRI policymaking faction, intense Pakistani diplomacy, and Russia’s interests with the US vis-à-vis Ukraine arguably account for what just… Read More ›
India-Pakistan Conflict Escalates, Entangled In Middle Eastern And Caucasian Geopolitical Rivalries By Uriel Araujo The India-Pakistan conflict, intensified by the 2025 Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, draws Middle Eastern powers like Israel and Turkiye, alongside Azerbaijan, into a complex web of… Read More ›