Rizwan Asghar

Rizwan Asghar

  • Explaining war

    One of the many puzzles in conflict studies is that wars cost blood as well as treasure; but they occur nonetheless. Why do states go to war even...

  • An ungrateful friend

    In his first tweet of the year, US President Donald Trump has accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorist organisations and of repeatedly...

  • Perceptual dilemmas

    South Asia is home to more than one-fifth of the world’s population, making it one of the most populous geographical regions in the world....

  • Living with a nuclear North Korea

    The global community has spent almost three decades trying to prevent the Kim regime in North Korea from moving its fingers towards the nuclear...

  • A world without nukes

    At long last, the advocates of nuclear disarmament have a reason to be optimistic about their journey towards achieving the goals of the Nuclear...

  • Trump’s North Korea rhetoric

    A general sense of political uncertainty has loomed the past few weeks as US President Donald Trump continued his abusive and dangerous rhetoric...

  • Trump’s North Korea rhetoric

    A general sense of political uncertainty has loomed the past few weeks as US President Donald Trump continued his abusive and dangerous rhetoric...

  • The North Korea rhetoric

    A general sense of political uncertainty looms as US President Donald Trump continues his abusive and dangerous rhetoric over the ongoing nuclear...

  • The nuclear taboo

    The US, along with eight other nuclear-armed states, remains unable to reduce reliance on threats to use nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, continued...

  • Another push for the CTBT

    Over the past two decades, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization has emerged as one of the top-tier international organisations with an...

  • North Korea’s nuclear test

    After conducting its sixth and significantly more powerful nuclear test, North Korea’s regime has left little doubt that it is on a collision...

  • Nuclear North Korea

    As a student of the politics of nuclear non-proliferation, the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse causing the collapse of human civilisation on...

  • A dangerous liability

    As of today, nine countries in the world are recognised as possessing nuclear weapons. These countries collectively have a total of 14,900 nuclear...

  • The threat remains

    Something changed forever when the US dropped atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. On the 72nd...

  • Predicting proliferation

    One of the basic tenets of the realist theory of international politics is that power is based on the military capabilities and states always build...

  • Revisiting the FMCT

    In 1963, President Kennedy highlighted the threats posed by the possession and the very existence of nuclear weapons and called for a global effort...

  • Banning nuclear testing

    “The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches us this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in...

  • Delegitimising nukes

    On January 24, 1946, the UN General Assembly adopted its first resolution which called for “the elimination from national armaments of atomic...

  • Moving forward on the CTBT

    This year marks the 18th anniversary of the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the US Senate in October 1999. During these 18 years,...

  • India’s unchecked ambitions

    Pakistan, with one of the largest armed forces in the world, is home to more than 200 million people. According to most recent estimates, Pakistan...