Red Cell: The Promise and Pitfalls of an “Israel Model” for Ukraine

…full risks of NATO membership. Though Israel-like security guarantees would help policymakers to avoid the politically thorny questions of Ukraine’s NATO accession, they are not without risks. The US-Israel relationship shows that the more credible the U.S. commitment to Israel has become, the more that Israeli…
Peace Through Democracy: The Role of Pakistani Political Parties in Afghanistan’s Future

…March, 2021, https://asiafoundation.org/resources/pdfs/AGsurvey06.pdf 6 Heart of Asia Society, Survey of Afghan Political Preferences relevant to Intra-Afghan Peace Negotiation (Kabul: Heart of Asia Society, 2020), 2, accessed 23 March 2021. https://heartofasiasociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HAS-Political-Survey_English_Sep-15-2020-1.pdf…
John Mearsheimer: A World Tour

…think they’re the ambitions of many Israelis. I think that Israeli leaders are bent on creating a Greater Israel, and that Greater Israel obviously includes the West Bank and Gaza,…
Pulwama/Balakot and The Evolving Role of Third Parties in India-Pakistan Crises

…after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and the 2011 NATO attacks on two Pakistani military check posts at Salala killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.17“Pakistan outrage after ‘Nato attack kills…
US-Pakistan Cooperation on Afghan Refugee Management

…30 “RAHA Factsheet,” (Pakistan: UNHCR, April 2021), https://www.unhcr.org/pk/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2021/04/RAHA-Factsheet.pdf. 31 “Government, UNHCR verify 1.3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan,” (Pakistan: UNHCR, 3 June, 2022), https://www.unhcr.org/pk/13933-government-unhcr-verify-1-3-million-afghan-refugees-in-pakistan.html. 32 “Donor Ranking,” UNHCR, https://reporting.unhcr.org/dashboards/donor-ranking?year=2023. 33…
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Enhancing Deterrence Stability on the Subcontinent: The Case for Conventional Deterrence

…affected Pakistan’s deterrence mix. Pakistan made the proposed nuclear restraint agreement contingent upon conventional restraint, as it was concerned about its conventional asymmetry with India. According to Pakistani nuclear scholar…
The Defense Research Funding Environment: A Conversation

…that research because we’ve built this wall around it. When you just say the role of research in the DoD, the big role of research is actually to ensure that…