Focus Areas
Where we concentrate.
We do not try to cover everything. Our work is organised around six themes — global forces and the regional dynamics they shape — that together determine Pakistan's place in the world. Each links to the analysis we have published on it.
Great-Power Competition
US–China rivalry, multipolarity, and how a fracturing order reshapes the room middle powers have to move.
8 pieces →Pakistan–China & CPEC
The corridor, the debt, and the partnership that anchors Pakistan to Beijing — and to the wider China question.
3 pieces →South Asia & India
Deterrence, the Line of Control, Afghanistan, water, and the regional security web Pakistan sits inside.
4 pieces →Global Economy & Trade
The IMF, capital flows, supply chains, and the external forces that set the limits on Pakistan’s economy.
13 pieces →Middle East & Energy
Gulf realignment, oil and gas, remittances, and the Middle East’s shifting pull on Pakistan and the region.
3 pieces →Climate & Security
Water stress, the energy transition, climate shocks, and the slow-moving risks that compound every other.
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