Afghanistan amid Rival Geopolitics: India–Pakistan Shadow Games under Great Power Competition (2026)
I strongly recommend
Afghanistan amid Rival Geopolitics: India–Pakistan Shadow Games under Great Power Competition (2026) to both experts and graduate students. It is a well-researched, addictive page-turner, written by a world-class specialist, Asifa Jahangir, PhD, who brilliantly analyzes the patterns and records of great-power Asifa Jahangir, PhD, who brilliantly analyzes the patterns and records of great power competition in Triangular Relationships in the Grand Great Game of Afghanistan.
Asifa Jahangir (Dr.) was a visiting postdoctoral research fellow under the AAUW international fellowship for 2024-25, and she is currently working as a Resident Research Fellow at Arizona State University's CME-US, in conjunction with the Future Securities Initiative for 2025-2026. She earned a PhD in South Asian Studies with a focus on International Relations from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Her research interests encompass Pakistan-China relations, Afghanistan-India-Pakistan relations and their political systems, foreign policy, strategic studies, nuclear issues, US-India strategic cooperation versus Pakistan-China, Asia-Pacific security and politics, climatology, and intercultural studies.
- Dr. Piotr Pietrzak, In Statu Nascendi Think Tank & Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland.
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