South Asia

Program Publications

• April 05, 2013 / By Michael Krepon
  Nuclear Race on the Subcontinent
  

  An Aesopian nuclear competition is under way between Pakistan and India. Pakistan, whose economy and domestic cohesion are steadily worsening, is the hare, racing to devote scarce

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• March 06, 2013 / By Julia Thompson, Michael Krepon
  The Battle Within Pakistan
  

  The February 16 bombing in Quetta targeting the Hazara community was the latest in a long, sad, and intensifying series of incidents of sectarian violence. Death tolls within Pakistan

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• March 04, 2013
  Smith on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
  

  The Stimson Center is releasing today an essay by David Smith entitled “The US Experience with Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Lessons for South Asia.” Smith served twice as the US Army

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• February 26, 2013 / By Russell Sticklor, David Michel
  Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research and Policy Coordination
  

  Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research, Data Sharing, and Policy Coordination seeks to build mutual understanding between Indian and Pakistani

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• January 30, 2013
  Toby Dalton on “Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia”
  

  The Stimson Center is releasing today an essay by Toby Dalton entitled “Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia.” Dalton is the Deputy Director

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• January 29, 2013 / By Alan D. Romberg, Yuki Tatsumi, Richard Cronin
  Presidential Inbox 2013:  Find the Right Balance in Asia Policy
  

  The Presidential Inbox series gives Stimson experts a chance to offer their views on key international security challenges and pragmatic steps the Obama Administration can take to

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• December 10, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Michael Krepon on Pakistan’s Nuclear Posture
  

  The Stimson Center is releasing today an essay by Michael Krepon on “Pakistan’s Nuclear Strategy and Deterrence Stability.” Krepon argues that it will be hard to dampen the growth of

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• November 13, 2012
  Perkovich on “The Non-Unitary Model and Deterrence Stability in South Asia”
  

  Stimson is releasing today an essay by George Perkovich on “The Non-Unitary Model and Deterrence Stability in South Asia.” Perkovich is the Vice President for Studies and Director of the

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• October 23, 2012
  Raghavan on Reducing Nuclear Risks in South Asia
  

   

  General V.R. Raghavan, the founder of the Delhi Policy Group and the Centre for Security Analysis in Chennai, gave a talk in Washington on October 19, 2012, co-sponsored by Stimson,

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• October 16, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Reclaiming Pakistan
  

  A version of this essay appeared in the October 13^th issue of The Tribune.

  A hyphenated word has hung like a shroud over Pakistan ever since its founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah,

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• October 04, 2012 / By Russell Sticklor
  The Race to Harness Himalayan Hydropower
  

  Spend a day in Kathmandu, Nepal's sprawling capital of 4-million people, and you'll quickly notice what has long been a fact of life in this landlocked Himalayan country, and many other

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• September 20, 2012
  South Asia Confidence-Building Measures (CBM) Timeline
  

  Stimson’s South Asia program maintains this timeline chronicling Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) made in South Asia since 1988, and updates it regularly with new events, agreements,

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• June 21, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Addressing US-Pakistan Ties
  

  Negotiations over the cost of hauling freight from Karachi port to Afghanistan and the wording of a statement of regret or apology over Pakistani deaths at a border clash last November

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• May 24, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Increased Trade to Spur Growth
  

  Pakistan and India have not fared well over the past two decades in negotiating confidence-building and nuclear risk-reduction measures.

  Existing measures, such as prior notifications

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• April 24, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons
  

  Of all categories of nuclear weapons, those with the shortest ranges have the least military utility and pose the greatest problems relating to security and unauthorized use.  Generally

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• April 20, 2012 / By Rupert Herbert-Burns
  Stimson Center Maritime Security Briefing #2 | Indian Ocean Naval Activity | Spring 2012
  

  This brief offers a review of key naval developments in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) during the first quarter of 2012. Events have been dominated by extensive Iranian naval manoeuvres

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• March 30, 2012 / By Rupert Herbert-Burns
  Stimson Center Maritime Security Briefing #1 | Indian Ocean Piracy Developments | Spring 2012
  

  The first quarter of 2012 paints a somewhat confusing picture with regard to the state of piracy threat in the high risk areas (HRA) of the Indian Ocean. Initially, given the low level

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• February 08, 2012 / By Michael Krepon, Polly Nayak
  New Publication: The Unfinished Crisis
  

  A terrorist incident of extraordinary scale and duration occurred in Mumbai, India's largest city and commercial hub in late November 2008. Over three days at multiple Mumbai tourist

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• February 07, 2012 / By Polly Nayak, Michael Krepon
  The Unfinished Crisis: US Crisis Management after the 2008 Mumbai Attacks
  

  This case study is the first detailed account of US crisis management after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, one that will no doubt be amplified by future first-person accounts and the release

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• January 03, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan’s Patrons
  

  India remains thoroughly non-aligned, even after its civil nuclear deal with Washington. Pakistan, in contrast, needs patrons, and has succeeded in having two powerful ones - Washington

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• November 02, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Arms crawl that wasn’t
  

  ASHLEY Tellis`s comprehensive assessment of India`s nuclear weapon programmes, , was published 10 years ago. Tellis, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, predicted an

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• October 17, 2011 / By Zaheer Ayub Baig
  Role of Nuclear Energy in Pakistan’s Future Energy Mix
  

  Pakistan has been facing acute power shortages during recent years. There is a huge negative gap between the supply and demand which is filled by cutting supplies to the consumers. The

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• October 06, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Blunt Talk
  

  Admiral Mike Mullen, the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke unusually bluntly about Pakistan's military and intelligence services during his last appearance before

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• October 05, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Tragedy and Farce
  

  IS it any wonder why Pakistan produces excellent fiction writers? Fiction has to be exceptional to top newspaper accounts. The latest saga begins with chairman of the US joint chiefs,

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• September 19, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Making the CTBT’s Valuable Benefits Permanent
  

  Fifteen years ago, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to join in a celebratory signing ceremony for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  First in line was President

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• September 14, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Crises in South Asia: Trends and Consequences
  

  To paraphrase Raymond Aron, crises have become the substitute of wars between nuclear-armed states. This corollary to nuclear deterrence applies to South Asia, where Pakistan and India

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• September 12, 2011 / By Nathan Cohn
  Mass-Casualty Attacks in Pakistan
  

  Militant groups are tearing the fabric of Pakistani society, exacting a toll on innocent bystanders, sectarian foes, political leaders, security forces, and the economy. More than 7,000

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• July 12, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Another contentious nuclear issue
  

  The U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement has already generated a lengthy list of grievances in New Delhi and Washington. The lofty ambitions behind the agreement have been much deflated.

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• May 16, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan - US Relations
  

  The US - Pakistan relationship could not have survived this long without the presence of vital common interests.  But we are now close to another divorce.

  It would be a serious error of

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• May 06, 2011
  One of the Most Dangerous Places on Earth: Transnational Crime in the FATA
  

  The death of Osama bin Laden has refocused the world's attention to the importance of building Pakistan's capacity to prevent and combat violent extremism in that country. Yet while

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• May 05, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan
  

  PAKISTAN

  TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL KREPON

  CO-FOUNDER, THE STIMSON CENTER

  BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

  MAY 5, 2011

  MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE: THANK YOU

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• May 02, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Osama and U.S.-Pakistan Relations
  

  Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city.  The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts.  The city’s most prominent feature remains Kakul,

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• April 15, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Learning from South Asia’s Many Crises
  

  Editor’s note: The Carnegie Endowment convened its 2011 International Nuclear Policy Conferenceon March 28-29 in Washington, D.C.  This essay is an adaptation and condensation of the

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• March 24, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan’s Decline
  

  It has become difficult to identify positive trend lines in Pakistan, where growing nuclear stockpiles provide no protection against bad governance and great misfortune. Two positive

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• March 14, 2011 / By Andrea Falkenhagen
  Mining and the Maoists
  

  The rapid growth of the mining industry in India's mineral-rich states has escalated the decades-long battle between the state and a Maoist insurgent movement. To effectively address

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• March 09, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan and the Bomb
  

   
  Even during periods of significant leverage, Washington has not had the power to stop and reverse Pakistan’s nuclear trend lines. As a result of the US-India nuclear deal and the

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• February 17, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  India and Pakistan Resume Structured Dialogue
  

   

  There is no better place than Wagah to look for evidence of how badly India-Pakistan relations have eroded.  Wagah is the only legally permissible place where, between the

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• January 24, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  A New Year of Familiar Surprises in South Asia
  

  Every new year has its share of modest surprises, but it takes big shocks to generate significant changes in national security policy.  "Familiar" surprise comes with the territory in

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• December 27, 2010 / By Allie Kirchner
  Losing the Meaning of Jihad: Terrorism and the US Media
  

  During his trip to India, President Barack Obama visited St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, where he answered a student's question about jihad: "I think all of us recognize that this

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• December 20, 2010
  India’s Ballistic Missile Defense Options
  

  Despite steady efforts toward developing ballistic missile defenses (BMD), the purpose of India's emerging capabilities remains obscure. Given the glacial pace of Indian strategic

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• November 24, 2010 / By Richard Cincotta
  Whither the Demographic Arc of Instability?
  

  The "demographic arc of instability" is created by highlighting countries with exceptionally young populations.  Projections for 2030 indicate that demographic factors for instability

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• October 22, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Scare Tactics
  

  Money is the mother's milk of politics; motivation is the mother's milk of the politics of treaty ratification.  Arms control battles in the United States tend to be uneven fights --

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• September 17, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The Flood
  

  The Soviet Union was dying long before its collapse, but few took serious notice. Sovietologists in the United States were too threat-oriented to recognize grave weaknesses.  And those

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• July 22, 2010 / By Elizabeth Cutler
  Looking to the Future: Anticipating the Long-Term Impact of Afghanistan’s Youth Bulge
  

  By Elizabeth Cutler

  The U.S. strategy to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan will require the U.S. to balance both the longer-term challenge of Afghanistan's demography and the

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• July 19, 2010 / By Syed Iqbal Hasnain
  How to Fix Afghanistan
  

  America’s war effort in Afghanistan remains adrift, a fact accentuated recently following the firing of General Stanley McCrystal. Yet the problems that America faces are in many ways

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• July 06, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Nuclear Risk Reduction Redux in South Asia
  

  Although New Delhi and Islamabad are resuming official talks after the nineteen-month hiatus resulting from the Mumbai attacks, the impulse to promote bilateral nuclear risk-reduction

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• June 17, 2010 / By Shireen Havewala
  India-Pakistan Dialogue Set to Resume: Another False Start?
  

  The Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet on July 15 in Islamabad to resume the dialogue suspended after the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.  Will this meeting finally mark

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• May 21, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The Gift that Keeps on Taking
  

  On July 18, 2005, President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stoof on the White House grounds to announce their intention to implement a civil nuclear cooperation

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• May 05, 2010 / By Ellen Laipson, Amit Pandya
  On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral
  

  On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral is the product of Stimson’s work on migration over the past year, and it points to how the migration agenda is evolving and

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• April 27, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  India and the Nuclear Future
  

  In the 1950s, when the Soviet Union and the United States were regularly conducting atmospheric nuclear tests and spreading radioactive debris, India took the lead in seeking to end

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• April 21, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Treaty Signings
  

  To oversell or underplay - that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer slings and arrows by acknowledging modest gains, or to claim immodest accomplishments in search

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• April 19, 2010 / By Amit Pandya
  Muslim Indians: Struggle for Inclusion
  

  The stereotype of Muslim Indians is that of a relatively quiescent minority that has made its peace with its larger national non-Muslim context of contemporary India. Muslim Indians see

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• April 19, 2010 / By Shireen Havewala
  Nuclear Threats 1970-2010
  

  What constitutes a nuclear threat? This study uses the following definition:

  1. Observable actions taken, such as increasing nuclear alert levels, the flight-testing of nuclear-capable

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• April 06, 2010 / By Amit Pandya, David Michel
  Coastal Zones and Climate Change
  

  Coastal Zones and Climate Change examines the emerging environmental stresses on coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the resulting challenges confronting coastal planners and decision

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• March 18, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The NPT at Age Forty
  

  As the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty approaches middle age, treaty supporters confront two paradoxes: while the utility of nuclear weapons for major powers is declining, it is

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• March 10, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The NPT at Age Forty
  

  As the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty approaches middle age, treaty supporters confront two paradoxes: while the utility of nuclear weapons for major powers is declining, it is growing

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• January 22, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The Fallacy of the Last Move in Pakistan
  

  This would be a good time for Pakistan and India to negotiate new nuclear risk reduction measures, as both countries may well be in the lull between crises sparked by extremists with

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• January 21, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Stabilizing India-Pakistan Relations
  

  Israeli-Palestinian relations have become an object lesson of missed opportunities, failed leadership, and wretched score settling.  After decades of painstaking U.S. efforts to

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• December 17, 2009 / By Prakhar Sharma
  The Final Big Push in Afghanistan
  

  President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan and the decision to send additional 30,000 troops are aimed at reversing the Taliban’s momentum in the insurgency. His strategy seems

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• December 03, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Whose Hand is on the Nuclear Button in South Asia?
  

  On November 28, 2009 the Pakistani media reported that President Asif Ali Zardari “divested himself” of his “powers” as Chairman of the National Command Authority, transferring them to

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• October 27, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  When the Gift Becomes an Insult
  

  You know when US-Pakistan relations are in bad shape when what is perceived as a generous gift in one country is widely received as an insult in the other.  Such is the case with the

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• October 08, 2009 / By Gordon Adams
  Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Graveyard for US Foreign Policy Planning?
  

  The foreign policy machinery in the Obama administration is finally grinding away on a difficult long-term policy and institutional problem: What should the US development and foreign

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• August 21, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Getting to Work on Fissile Material Production and Space Security
  

  The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva is tied up in knots because it operates by consensus and because it proceeds as if the Cold War never ended.  Its last substantive

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• August 03, 2009 / By Michael Krepon, Sam Black
  Avoiding One Pitfall in US-India Relations
  

  The L’Aquila Statement on Non-Proliferation, released at the end of the G-8 Summit in Italy, received little notice -- except in India. Some in New Delhi took exception to one

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• June 24, 2009 / By Hamid Farooq
  Visiting Fellow Hamid Farooq Presents Research
  

  With support from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Stimson Center hosts Pakistani Visiting Fellows from the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters. Each

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• June 18, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Complexities of Risk Reduction in South Asia
  

  The Indian electorate has now voted into office a very strong coalition government led, once again, by the Congress party. Pakistani domestic politics, on the other hand, have produced

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• April 29, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Pakistan’s Future and US Assistance
  

  News reports of the Taliban’s mostly uncontested advances in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province have prompted panicky assessments and remedies.  The situation in Pakistan clearly

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• April 09, 2009 / By Michael Krepon, Neetu Mahil
  A Greater Kashmir Development Authority
  

  The ultimate nuclear risk reduction measure between India and Pakistan would be a settlement of the Kashmir dispute. The Government of India has stated that maps cannot be redrawn in

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• March 24, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  The Search for Nuclear Stabilization in Southern Asia
  

  With support from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Stimson Center seeks to analyze the sources of nuclear danger in

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• February 05, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb
  

  In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was set at five minutes to midnight - two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F. Kennedy and

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• December 02, 2008 / By Michael Krepon
  Terrorism in India
  

  Once again, India has experienced the pain of another 9/11-type event. In 1993, the Mumbai stock exchange and other targets in the city were struck, resulting in over 250 killed and 700

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• October 01, 2008 / By Michael Krepon
  US-India Nuclear Deal Now Done, Reckoning to Come Later
  

  The global system designed to prevent and reverse proliferation was built on bedrock conservative principles. In designing this structure, U.S. presidents have methodically sought to

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• September 08, 2008 / By Michael Krepon
  Likely Consequences of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Decision
  

  The Bush administration has once again rubbished its conservative credentials by strong-arming the Nuclear Suppliers Group to waive longstanding rules designed to prevent proliferation

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• April 01, 2008 / By Mohammed Saleem Safar
  Vulnerability of Research Reactors to Attack
  

  After 9/11, countries around the world are re-evaluating the safety and security of their nuclear facilities against sabotage acts. An act of nuclear terrorism on research reactors is of

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• February 01, 2008 / By Alex Stolar
  To The Brink: Indian Decision-Making and the 2001-2002 Standoff
  

  This study of the ten-month standoff between India and Pakistan triggered by an attack on the Indian Parliament by Islamic extremists in December 2001, authored by Stimson Center

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• July 25, 2007 / By Zafar Ali
  Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets and Threats of Terrorism: How Grave is the Danger?
  

  A presentation by

  Lt. Col. Zafar Ali, Pakistan Army, Stimson Center Visiting Fellow
  Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters
  Rawalpindi,

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• March 31, 2007 / By Abdul Mannan
  Preventing Nuclear Terrorism in Pakistan
  

  Abdul Mannan, Director, Transport and Waste Safety, PNRA, Stimson Center Visiting Fellow

  Although an act of nuclear terrorism is of very remote probability in Pakistan, nevertheless, an

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• November 21, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Geo-Strategic Partners or Partners of Convenience?
  

  This week, the Senate may try to take up the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement while Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will be making the rounds in Washington.  Boosters of the

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• November 01, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Negating American Power
  

  President George W. Bush and his most powerful advisers are fueled by a rare, high-octane mix of hyper-realism and transformational zeal forged in the aftermath of surprise

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• September 01, 2006 / By Michael Krepon, Polly Nayak
  US Crisis Management in South Asia’s Twin Peaks Crisis
  

  The Twin Peaks crisis was prompted by a brazen attack by militants on the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi in December 2001. The second peak in the crisis occured in May 2002,

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• August 21, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Update on the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
  

  In response to harsh domestic criticism, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivered a speech to the upper house of the Indian Parliament on August 17th defending the US-India nuclear

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• August 07, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  The Meaning of the Mumbai Blasts
  

  In the wake of the Mumbai blasts, the governments of India, Pakistan and the United States acted in familiar ways.  New Delhi expressed its outrage and struggled with poor choices in

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• July 01, 2006 / By Ajay Gondane
  Lessons from India: Confronting the Sociological Causes of Terrorism
  

  Ajay Gondane

  Visiting Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center and Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs

   

  With Grateful Acknowledgement to the Asia Foundation and the Henry L.

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• July 01, 2006 / By Adil Sultan
  Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Implications for South Asia Regional Security
  

  Wing Commander Adil Sultan, Pakistan Air Force, Stimson Center Visiting Fellow

  Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters
  Rawalpindi,

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• June 15, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Upholding Nonproliferation
  

  Picture the global structure of treaties, norms, export controls, and sanctions that helps prevent proliferation as a big tent.  The tent is only as sturdy as the common resolve of the

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• May 18, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  The Bush Administration Tables a Draft “Cutoff” Treaty Analysis of Key Elements
  

  1. Tabling a draft treaty now is a smart idea politically to improve chances that the Congress will approve the Bush administration’s proposed nuclear deal with India.   A treaty could

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• April 29, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  The US-India Nuclear Deal: Another Wrong Turn in the War on Terror
  

   

  The Bush administration is making another costly detour on the road to keeping the most dangerous weapons out of the wrong hands.  At a time when the administration needs to work as

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• April 24, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  A Guide to the Perplexed: Q&A on the US-India Nuclear Deal
  

   

  Q.  What is the biggest problem with this deal?

  A.  It’s another dangerous detour in the war on terror.   Job #1 is to prevent the worst weapons from getting into the wrong

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• March 15, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Are the Basic Assumptions Behind the Bush Administration’s Nuclear Deal with India Sound?
  

  The Washington Post has recently published two op-eds in support of the nuclear deal with India by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Robert Kagan. Both op-eds frame the right

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• February 21, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  In Pursuit of a Nuclear Deal with India
  

  Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of lentils.  During the Cold War, a variation of this Biblical tale was played out whenever a president was about to engage in summitry with the

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• February 07, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  No Exemption For India: Nuclear Deal Undermines Non-Proliferation Regime
  

  This op-ed appeared in the Times of India on February 7, 2006 (Editorial, p.28)
  
  While trying to contain and reverse the nuclear programme of Iran and North Korea, President Bush has

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• January 23, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Negotiating the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal
  

  While trying to contain and reverse the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea, President Bush has launched a bold initiative to change the rules of nuclear commerce to benefit India. 

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• January 08, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Proliferation: Then and Now
  

  A rogue state has recently tested its first nuclear weapon and the administration is deeply divided about how to react. No - the state in question isn’t North Korea. The year is 1965 and

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• January 01, 2006 / By Michael Krepon
  Proliferation: Then and Now
  

  A rogue state has recently tested its first nuclear weapon and the administration is deeply divided about how to react. No – the state in question isn’t North Korea. The year is 1965 and

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• August 31, 2005 / By Michael Krepon
  Is the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Good or Bad for Proliferation?
  

  The nuclear cooperation agreement announced between President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House on July 18th marks a major shift in decades-long

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• August 24, 2005 / By Ziad Haider
  Sino-Pakistan Relations and Xinjiang’s Uyghurs
  

  China’s Muslim Uighurs have recently proven to be an unusual source of friction in the stalwart Sino-Pakistan friendship. In this article from Asian Survey Ziad Haider analyzes how

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• July 14, 2005 / By Ziad Haider, Michael Krepon
  Changing the Rules of Nuclear Commerce: Will More Commerce Equal More Proliferation?
  

  Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with President Bush on July 18 to demonstrate and accelerate the new strategic partnership between New Delhi and Washington. High on the Prime

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• June 05, 2005 / By Michael Krepon
  Betting the Ranch on the US-India Nuclear Deal
  

  The Bush administration, which has bet the ranch on a war in Iraq based on wildly unrealistic assumptions, has, in effect, doubled this bet on the nuclear deal with India.  This time

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• May 01, 2005 / By Khurshid Khan
  Limited War Under the Nuclear Umbrella and its Implications for South Asia
  

  Stimson Center’s Visiting Fellow Khurshid Khan analyses India’s exploration of a limited war strategy and the implications of such a war fighting model for strategic stability in South

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• April 19, 2005 / By Michael Krepon, Ziad Haider
  A Pipeline for Peace?
  

  Tehran, New Delhi and Islamabad are negotiating seriously over a pipeline originating at the South Pars field in Iran, crossing Pakistan, delivering much needed natural gas to western

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