CSS 2021 Explainer – I

CSS 2021 Explainer (Part – I)

INSIDE:

1. How a World Order Ends? (Richard Haass) *

2. A New Americanism (Jill Lepore)

3. The Longest Wars (George Packer)

4. The Self-Destruction of American Power (Fareed Zakaria)

5. Putin, the Great (Susan B. Glasser)

6. Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System (Chad P. Bown & Douglas A.)

7. The Sources of Chinese Conduct (Odd Arne Westad)

8. War Is Not Over (Tanisha M. Fazal & Paul Poast)

9. Warnings From Versailles (Margaret MacMillan)

10. What a military intervention in Venezuela would look like? (Frank O. Mora)

11. The United States Should Fear a Faltering China (Michael Beckley)

12. Asean’s mid-life crisis in an Age of Geostrategic Flux

13. The Post-INF Treaty Crisis: Background and Next Steps *

14. The crisis of democracy (Tahir Kamran)

15. Pakistan’s Changing Geopolitics (Dr Naazir Mahmood) *

16. How to revive SAARC? (Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir) *

17. The failure of institutions in Pakistan (Rabia Ahmed)  *

18. Why Geopolitics Matters? (Jeremy Black)

19. Is imperial geopolitics coming back? (Tarik Oguzlu)

20. Global Power dynamics and Pakistan’s foreign policy (Abdul Samad Khan) *

21. Tragedy of Pakistani State, Society & Democracy (Jahangir Kakar) *

22. Making CPEC Work: Nexus Between Pakistan & China (Ikram Sehgal)

23. Future of transatlantic relations and NATO (Tariq Oguzlu) *

24. International law – The ‘Deal of the Century’ case (Ferhat Kucuk)

25. USA – Afghan deal vs Pak trial in FATF (Rehman Malik)

26. Pakistan’s unconditional diplomacy (Reema Shaukat)

27. Food inflation – what is driving it? (Dr Kamal Monnoo) *

28. Trump, Modi and the Indo-Pacific (Adeela Naureen & Umar Waqar) *

29. South Asia: What lies within and beyond. (Naghmana Shahid & Seher Kamran)  *

30. Pakistan’s impressive refugee (Atle Hetland) *

31. FTO – a symbol of good governance (Muhammad Ashraf) *

32. Toying with nuclear stability (Samson Simon) *

33. Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Formation (Atle Hetland) *

34. Child Abuse and deterrent punishment (Usman Hameed) *

35. Afghanistan: Light at the end of tunnel? (Javid Husain) *

36. Modernising the Muslim world (Shahid Javed Burki) *

Note: This is for general reading on different topics. All topics with an asterisk (*) are important for the exam. Thank you.

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