Mediation in a Multipolar World: Pakistan’s Role in Iran–US Talks and the Rise of Middle-Power Diplomacy
(By Khalid Masood) In the absence of functional great-power consensus, the architecture of international crisis management is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Today’s diplomatic landscape is increasingly shaped not by hegemonic imposition, but by calibrated facilitation. Nowhere is this shift more visible than in the emerging backchannel between Washington and Tehran, where Islamabad has…