Strategic Ambiguity Governance Pakistan Iran Diplomatic Equilibrium
By : Shafqat Ali Qureshi The contemporary architecture of regional diplomacy is increasingly defined by the deliberate cultivation of strategic ambiguity, a condition in which states maintain calculated indeterminacy across ideological alignment, economic orientation, and security partnerships. Within this evolving diplomatic grammar, Pakistan
Strategic Autonomy in Multipolar Middle East Order
BY SHAFQAT ALI QURESHI The contemporary invocation of strategic autonomy within the evolving geopolitical architecture of the Middle East reflects less a coherent doctrine and more an aspirational response to an increasingly fragmented international system in which sovereignty is simultaneously asserted and structurally
Middle Powers Navigate Pakistan Iran Shift After Gulf Rapprochement
By : Shafqat Ali Qureshi The recalibration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quietly altered the diplomatic geometry of West and South Asia, creating ripple effects that extend far beyond the Gulf. For Pakistan and Iran, two states long positioned at