In the latest series of articles reflecting on the anniversary of the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis, Shaza Arif explores how the crisis highlights the dangerous stability-instability paradox in South Asia, where nuclear deterrence prevents full scale war but simultaneously enables recurring limited conventional clashes, escalating the risks of miscalculation, arms races, and uncontrolled escalation under the nuclear shadow.
Responsibilities and Global Governance
Report: Addressing Future Nuclear Crisis Scenarios in South Asia through a Responsibility-Based Approach
This report is a product of two Track 2/1.5 dialogues involving two crisis simulations that were facilitated by BASIC’s Responsibilities and Global Governance Programme with participants from Indian and Pakistani nuclear policy communities in Bahrain in February 2026.
Reimagining the Perils of Brinkmanship in South Asia
In the latest series of articles reflecting on the anniversary of the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis, Syed Ali Zia Jaffery examines how misperceptions, weak crisis-management mechanisms, emerging technologies, and geographical proximity could make future India-Pakistan crises dangerously prone to nuclear brinkmanship.
Working Paper: Strengthening Dialogue in the Non-Proliferation Treaty: the Nuclear Responsibilities Approach
The Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-operation (CPCCR) at the University of Stirling and BASIC have submitted a working paper, authored by Dr Megan Dee, “Strengthening dialogue in the Non-Proliferation Treaty: the nuclear responsibilities approach”, to the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
NukeChat Episode 6: How to Talk Nuclear Responsibilities in a Third Nuclear Age
In the final NukeChat episode, Dr Megan Dee and Dr David Chambers discuss the different framings and approaches that can be used – and avoided – by States when talking nuclear responsibilities in an NPT framework, as well as the merits of using a nuclear responsibilities approach to strengthen dialogue and contribute to transparency, confidence-building, and risk reduction efforts.
NukeChat Episode 5: Nuclear Responsibilities and Nuclear Energy
In this episode, Dr Megan Dee and Ingrid Kirsten explore the responsibilities associated with the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, reflecting on how responsibilities are attributed – and upheld – to ensure that nuclear materials and technologies not only remain safe and secure but accessible to those most in need.
NukeChat Episode 4: Nuclear Responsibilities and Non-Proliferation
In this episode, Dr Megan Dee and Dr Toby Dalton explore nuclear responsibilities as they relate to nuclear non-proliferation, along with the challenges this third nuclear age presents for the non-proliferation regime at large.
Report: Unpacking the May 2025 India-Pakistan Crisis: Mutual Perceptions, Nuclear Escalation Risks, and De-escalation Pathways
In this report, Mhairi McClafferty explores the central role of perceptions in shaping both escalation and de-escalation during the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis.