Nowhere is the risk of strategic instability and nuclear exchange greater than in South Asia. Should South Asia succumb to arms races, crises, and war, the region could play a destabilizing role well beyond the Subcontinent. The South Asia program produces policy analysis and academic research on regional strategic trends and geopolitical dynamics in order to inform both policy debates and scholarly work. We believe this dispassionate, reasoned approach is vital to generating high-quality strategic thinking that will advance regional and global stability.
The program also focuses its efforts on partnering with the next generation of South Asian analysts and policymakers to build better tools for regional stewardship and enduring relationships for deliberative engagement. We seek to foster space for respectful dialogue and debate for all those who seek it, be they rising scholars, contemporary experts, or even government officials from New Delhi, Islamabad, Washington DC, and Beijing.
Rising Regional Experts Offer Analysis and Recommendations on South Asian Nuclear Security
December 15, 2021
There is a little doubt about the need for FFP in Sri Lanka and the vast potential to transform the realities of the most vulnerable.
November 29, 2021
The repeal highlights the importance of consensus-building in governing a large country and the limitations of brute majority.
November 24, 2021
The U.S. and Pakistan both appear to want relations to improve beyond the single-point issue of Afghanistan, although Pakistan more so than the United States.
November 23, 2021
Stimson’s U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue convened Indian and American experts to offer insights on deepening security and defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
November 16, 2021
Examination of Pakistan’s efforts to enhance its nuclear security culture using the IAEA Nuclear Security Culture Implementing Guide—Nuclear Security Series No. 7 (2008)—as a tool for evaluation.
November 15, 2021
Why efforts to pursue transitional justice have been so unsuccessful in the Sri Lankan context.
November 12, 2021
The government embrace of Buddhist nationalism can be used to understand Sri Lanka's difficulties in establishing transitional justice mechanisms, which would address Civil War crimes.
November 12, 2021
