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Commentary

Field Notes — Tonle Sap Lake

Stimson Southeast Asia program director Brian Eyler recently visited Plov Tuok, a community of 800 floating homes atop of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap

January 31, 2018
Brian Eyler
Commentary

Make US Arms Sales Great Again

The Trump administration, according to recent reports, will soon be bringing “Buy America” to international arms sales by asking diplomats to drum up

January 31, 2018
Rachel Stohl
Commentary

Crises between India and Pakistan: The Basics

Quote of the week: “Clearly, five major crises within a twenty-year period indicate a fundamental structural problem… This region has not been

January 30, 2018
Michael Krepon
Commentary

The Most Dangerous Word in the Draft Nuclear Posture Review

The arms-control diplomacy passages of the draft Nuclear Posture Review have drawn little attention, likely because little change was expected in this aspect

January 23, 2018
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Rupture and Betrayal: Are Pak-US relations repairable?

Another rupture, another sense of betrayal. US-Pakistan relations have once again reached a low point with the Trump administration’s decision to withhold

January 16, 2018
Michael Krepon
Commentary

The Risk of a Nuclear-Tinged South Asian Crisis Is Rising

By Sameer Lalwani and Hannah Haegeland   The latest U.S. spat with Pakistan, initiated by President Donald Trump’s inaugural tweet of 2018, suggests that

January 11, 2018
Hannah Haegeland
Commentary

Utilizing Article XIV Conferences to Boost the Two Norms that Matter Most

Quote of the week: “The hope of civilization…lies in international arrangements looking, if possible, to the renunciation of the use of the

January 4, 2018
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Year In Review

The year just concluded consisted largely of bark rather than bite as far as trade is concerned. Although the president did pull

December 26, 2017
William Reinsch
Commentary

Take Small Steps to Advance the US-India Relationship

By Sameer Lalwani and Liv Dowling   A region normally peripheral to U.S. foreign-policy debates received considerable attention in the new National Security Strategy, which

December 21, 2017
Sameer Lalwani
Commentary

Crisis Management Gets More Complicated between Pakistan and India

Quotes of the week: “The ability to win a local war cannot be translated into the ability to fight it safely and

December 20, 2017
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Post-Ministerial Blues, or is it Reds?

I had planned this week to make some profound comments reflecting on the year past, but I can’t let a WTO Ministerial

December 19, 2017
William Reinsch
Commentary

Into The Weeds

One of my favorite TV shows a few years ago was Weeds, which featured the more or less dysfunctional Botwin family whose

December 12, 2017
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