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Strategic Fractures is a space that challenges dominant narratives in global security and deterrence, centering the perspectives of the Global South especially Pakistan. It asks: what if the fault lines are the real story?

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Rabia Akhtar

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Dean Social Sciences, University of Lahore | Director, Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR) | Non-Resident Research Associate, Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School | Whirling Dervish