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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

Who Benefits from the Iranian Scientist’s Assassination?

In any zero-sum competition, one man’s loss is another man’s gain. This is especially true of intense geo-political rivalries characterized by deep-seated and hardline ideological positions. When Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated last week, it meant a major Iranian loss and a crucial gain for Iran’s rivals in the region and beyond who have been looking...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Joe Biden will Militarize US Middle East Policy

Joe Biden, the US president-elect, won the elections on the promise of ‘re-setting US foreign policy.’ An important area of US foreign policy has always been the Middle East for both geo-political and geo-economic reasons. Under the Trump administration, the US got out of JCPOA, sanctioned Iran and even engaged in a limited military conflict. It pursued...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

How the SCO has made the US Lose Central Asian

For decades, especially since the end of the Cold War, the US has been paying special attention to Central Asia, the so-called ‘underbelly’ of Russia. It was able to establish its military bases and penetrate the CAS through its various aid programs. Since the 1990s, a primary US interest has been to build a Central Asia that is politically and economically...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Biden may take Afghanistan War Back to the Square One

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The RCEP: How the Pact Signals US Downfall

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Russia Takes Charge in the Caucasus

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Will Joe Biden Really ‘Re-set’ US Foreign Relations?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

A Regional Solution Can End Polarization around Nagorno-Karabakh

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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