Moeed Yusuf writes about 🇵🇰’s role in the region & the world. How has 🇵🇰 played a role as a very high profile Middle Power? Why does 🇵🇰 seek to avoid Cold War 2.0? And how does 🇵🇰’s persistent domestic underperformance create constraints? Free download ⬇️ www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...

Spoke to Tafhim Kiani about Cold War & post-Cold War 🇵🇰, the surprisingly large role Pakistan played during the US-Soviet struggle, 🇵🇰’s extraordinary nuclear weapons breakthrough, & the relentless narrative & kinetic assaults the country has weathered since the 1980s. youtu.be/PCFLNf8o4_o?...

‘Make friends with those of the past.’ - Mencius

As Europe returns to a wolf age (the rest of the planet never left it) how can it navigate the return of history? Marc Saxer’s new book addresses the crisis of the liberal world order & explores the possibility of a rules-based multipolar world order. Geopolitical Conflict in the Wolf World:

Latest edition of my latest book 😊:

New book from George Tsakraklides released on May 27:

My book, New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas, won the 11th Best Publication Award for a book in the social sciences from the Higher Education Commission of 🇵🇰. From Routledge (NY) & is available in 🇮🇳 from Manohar (New Delhi) & it will soon be out in 🇵🇰 from OUP.

A fine essay on Malthus & what he got right - ingenuity did not overcome ecological constraints. It only delayed the onset of the constraints that would bring humanity back into equilibrium with nature:

One important outcome of the India-Pakistan clash of May 2025 is that Pakistan is raising a dedicated Rocket Force. But what exactly is a rocket force? Moiz Khan Kakar talks to Ali Mustafa about Pakistan’s Rocket Force Command in a useful introduction to the subject: youtu.be/v5siyBXTk68?...

📣ANNOUNCEMENT📣 I’m coming to Edinburgh baby! My Work In Progress is off to Edinburger & I would love to share the word with as many people as possible! Help me with my indecision. Character, stand up and songs. #edfringe #comedy 11-20th Aug: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

The Pangloss Effect: Why Optimism is Lethal: www.dawn.com/news/amp/171...

Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces just gave an important speech at an event to mark the end of last year’s India-Pakistan conflict. The speech is in Urdu (link in the thread below) but I’ve summarised the main points here for anyone who is interested in knowing what he said.

My latest essay, ‘The India-Pakistan Doomsday Machine & the Logic of Preemption’ is out now from CSCR - a year after the India-Pakistan clashes of May 2025, another round of violence remains likely. To make it less likely, Pakistan needs to go for a preemption option. cscr.pk/explore/them...

The UNDP is hiring research assistants who will work remotely. Take a look & throw your hat into the ring if you are a recent graduate (within last year), a final year student, or enrolled in a Masters or PhD program. Deadline is September 30, 2026. Link 👇: careersworldwide.org/2026/04/30/u...

Ejaz Haider talks to the incisive & superbly well-informed Kelly Grieco (AirPower expert) about whether the Iran war is Trump’s Albatross? I reckon the war is an Albatross. A beautiful Albatross. There’s been no Albatross like it before. Make Albatross Great Again: youtu.be/ygDuQ9wuCB4?...

In February, Ejaz Haider wrote a response to Tharoor’s article on India-Pakistan. Two Indian publications backed out of publishing it for fear of government pressure. You can read it here: www.thefridaytimes.com/02-May-2026/...

If Mamdani wants to compensate victims of colonialism then there’s a lot he can do right in NYC. On Kohinoor, India has a good claim due to the source of the diamond, but Britain acquired it by treaty, so 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 🇦🇫 don’t have as strong a claim. youtu.be/yfT4tMkBp9w?...

What goes up must come down, but with modern civilisation, the depletion of the underlying ecology & resources is such that it might be impossible to rebuild an industrial society. Sarah Connor explains:

There is no scenario where Pakistan trying but failing to stop the world’s descent into madness is worse than failing to try. That said, Pakistani decision makers need to read Ejaz Haider’s latest article very carefully & calibrate mediation efforts: www.dawn.com/news/1994665

If you want great economic analysis from someone who understands how economies actually work & has solutions to many of today’s challenges, be sure to read Nasim Beg’s new blog: nasimbeg1.blogspot.com/2026/04/slow...

Sahar Khan, Haleema Sadia, and Afeera Firdous, launch their new podcast Beyond the Lines of Control. Congratulations to them on the new episode! The first of many, I am sure: youtu.be/ELggGpg_jIg?...

On April 21, 1526, 500 years ago on this day, Zahiruddin Babar fought and defeated the Sultanate of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat. Some great books for learning about this empire:

Two great public servants - one message: Pakistanis are poorer and less well-nourished than in 2018. They are also dramatically more digitally integrated than in 2018. Where will this increasing impoverishment + growing connectivity lead? www.dawn.com/news/1965911...

The always engaging Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Pakistani premier, in conversation with Shayan Mahmud on the How Does it Work Podcast - worth watching in full: youtu.be/F_0gTCIdn6c?...

Sat down for a wide ranging talk with Shayan Mahmud on the How does it work podcast about Pakistan, modernisation, governance, colonialism, and some other stuff: youtu.be/Vr2F46ptZ4w?...

Is there a method to Trump’s madness, or is madness now the method? Ejaz Haider & Elizabeth Threlkeld try & read Trump’s mind, & do as good a job as anyone can. As for Pakistan, it has dealt pretty well with a crazier White House. Full episode here: youtu.be/T32sbErtIQg?...

@bsky.app - I wasted nearly half an hour on a thread of posts. The thing didn’t go through. It got stuck on photo upload. And then I had to restart the app and my phone - the thread didn’t save to drafts for some reason. You are doing a lousy job. I won’t wast time on posting a thread here again.

Aiza Azam in conversation with Victor Gao about Sino-US relations, India-Pakistan, and what lies ahead. Worth watching in full: youtu.be/aWyYL_vmH4w

AI slop now accounts for a majority of the written content on the web. There will be a niche market for “authentic free range human writing” while the bulk of a population increasingly unused to applying its own mind to anything make do with what AI produces. www.pcmag.com/news/slop-ce...

Zahra Naeem & Hussain Asad reveal how the installation of a coal power plant in Sahiwal has devastated the local community & environment - a shocking indictment of Pakistan’s government & bureaucracy: “Megawatts of Betrayal” - your must read for today: www.dawn.com/news/amp/195...

Uzair Younus in conversation with the Hindustan Times on the improvement in Pakistan-US relations & the regional outlook. Worth watching in full: youtu.be/vw1TProUzKQ?...

Could part of the problem with Pakistani schools be that they have too much curriculum? A very interesting and thoughtful conversation with Sabeena Abbasi: youtu.be/qTxuVvIfvJM?...

A superb conversation about Uzair Younus’s new book, Future Ready: Innovation, Abundance & the Global South. Do watch the full thing - full of precise policy prescriptions that folks in government & the private sector can draw upon. youtu.be/SKTswVV2dYY?...

Uzair Younus’s new book, Future Ready, challenges the reader to understand the non-linearity of development & provides lots of valuable insights - here is my review of the book, be sure to get it as it’s a fast-paced and engaging read: www.dawn.com/news/1946735...

Two enterprising young scholars from 🇵🇰 have just launched a new podcast series - called the dialectic it covers a wide range of topics from geopolitics to personal development - please watch their launch video & like & subscribe to their channel to give them a warm welcome: youtu.be/5NpIdVKOH6o?...

The mistake Democrats are making is that they think the current president cares about the administration that reports to him: youtu.be/SoZwKjQ0c18?...

In this article Ariba Shahid captures the the contradiction at the heart of ecocide & the ongoing collapse of industrial civilisation. Solarisation is a good thing, but what happens when farmers use solar power to extract the last bits of underground 💧? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Uzair Younus on the Grand Tamasha (a podcast from the Carnegie Endowment) on why the big story from Asia is the US-Pakistan reset & Pakistan’s breakthrough on the world stage after the 4 day conflict with India. Great convo. Listen & learn. youtu.be/3l2DCQipv3c?...

Had a wide ranging discussion with Ejaz Haider on what lies ahead for world history - are we headed to a great unraveling? Where does China stand in all this? And then there’s the wrecking ball of climate change that no one is taking seriously. (English language) youtu.be/CoFEGJLLmP0?...

Talked to the Mokalma folks about my 2022 book, Downfall: Lessons for our Final Century - marking the third anniversary of its publication. The book is free to download. youtu.be/VtzCoDPH4b0?...

On the third anniversary of the publication of my 2022 book (Downfall: Lessons for our Final Century), I’ll be discussing the process of collapse (a real sunny topic 😃) thanks to the Parallel Learning Space. You can join on zoom by emailing below: [email protected]

Pakistan’s constitutional order fractured in the 1950s, never to be healed & settled since. Asad Rahim Khan takes us back to how it happened & the role the judiciary played in legalising reversion to medieval norms of seizing power & arbitrary rule: 👍 👇 www.dawn.com/news/1943706...

Pakistan & Saudi Arabia have just signed a mutual defence agreement. “The agreement states that any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Uzair Younus in conversation with Ashish Pradhan (Kathmandu) on Nepal’s Gen Z led revolution. Worth watching: youtu.be/0cQt1e4mv6U?...

NASA announces that it might have found bio-signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars. The samples were discovered a year ago and have been rigorously analysed since then. A lot more study needed, but it is a very important development: www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Commence Saturation bombardment: youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...

“It's highly ironic that the crowd who spent their entire lives trashing art education and the humanities suddenly finds so much value in the art they "make" with robots.” www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the/?ref=the...

Take 18 minutes & do watch this - it helps explain why poor leadership skills is rarely an obstacle to gaining leadership positions: youtu.be/DU06c7f9fzc?...

My generation was there when Al Gore invented the Internet 😃- 1994 BBC program on the birth of the World Wide Web - youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE?...

The key question this talk concludes on is “Who does AI help when we depend on learning with it?” Gedeon explains the ‘cognitive offloading’ effect of using AI so that by using it people lose or fail to acquire skills and learning. Worth watching in full: youtu.be/m8WomdCLBqE?...