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Pakistan 'enormous, resourceful, important country', ties must be recalibrated and made even-handed, says Fred Kempe

Pakistan 'enormous, resourceful, important country', ties must be recalibrated and made even-handed, says Fred Kempe

To discuss these findings and expand on their report, please join USIP and the report’s authors, Mubashar Hasan and Geoffrey Macdonald, for a timely virtual discussion moderated by Daniel Markey. 

US Defence Secu­rity Cooperation Agency delivers to Congress required certification of proposed foreign military sale.

Analysts say Washington’s first major security assistance to Islamabad in four years may hint that the transactional relationship between the two countries is back on track.

As part of his visit earlier this month to the Middle East, President Biden participated in the first leaders summit of a new grouping made up of Israel, India, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Known as the I2U2, the countries’ foreign ministers formed the bloc in the fall of 2021 to deepen technological and private sector collaboration in the region and tackle transnational challenges in six focus areas: water, energy, transportation, space, health and food security. Beyond the...

US withdrawal with celerity from Afghanistan betokens a long-preferred penchant for statecraft in place of a grand strategy

Security, territorial and political tensions between Southern Asia’s three nuclear states — Pakistan, India and China — "have gotten worse over the past few years," says USIP's Daniel Markey. "These are countries that have been at war a number of times… that [makes] these hostilities difficult to manage."

Our world’s spate of disasters so recently unimaginable — European cities pulverized by war, Earth’s decaying climate or 6 million dead from pandemic disease — evokes a national security question: What other “unthinkable” crises must American citizens and policymakers anticipate? A singular threat is warfare around our planet’s one spot where three nuclear-armed states stubbornly contest long-unresolved border conflicts. Largely unnoted in national security news coverage, the confl...

As the global community responds to the Russian military operation in Ukraine, experts have supported India on its stand to remain impartial at the UN Security