Click here to download the event transcript (PDF). The Indo-Pacific region, a key focus of the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda, is undergoing significant political and strategic realignments with the return to great power competition. …
Published October 30, 2018 / Held November 15, 2018
A new era of US engagement in infrastructure and development opportunities the Indo-Pacific commenced on October 3, 2018 when Congress passed the BUILD Act, a bipartisan legislation which establishes the International Development Finance Corporation. T …
Published October 18, 2018 / Held October 30, 2018
At the Indo-Pacific Business Forum held on July 30, 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a new era of US engagement on infrastructure and development in the Indo-Pacific. Since then the US government has pledged more than $200 million for prog …
Published August 28, 2018 / Held September 6, 2018
By Sameer Lalwani and Hamza Shad A Brief History Since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, it has had a mixed relationship with the United States, encompassing several ups and downs over the decades. Pakistan came into being as a sovereign state, l …
By Sameer Lalwani While Sino-Indian friction will continue, relations have improved from last year’s low, and a border standoff seems unlikely for three reasons: learning, national self-interest, and drifting U.S.-India relations. First, it is p …
“Heads of state from China and India met on the sidelines of an event Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping talked with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time after their widely unexpected 73-day military standoff ov …
Introduction The real danger of an explosive conflict and potential nuclear war lingers in South Asia. Relations between India and Pakistan remain distrustful, confrontational, and highly volatile as the result of decades-long hostility. War plans are …
By Manpreet Sethi Manpreet Sethi is a senior fellow and head of the Nuclear Security Project at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. She is an expert on nuclear issues with eight books and over 80 papers in academic journals. Among her books ar …
By Sitakanta Mishra Sitakanta Mishra is currently on the international relations faculty at the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in Gujarat. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. He has authored three …
By Frank O’Donnell Frank O’Donnell is a nonresident fellow in the Stimson Center’s South Asia Program. His areas of expertise include nuclear doctrine and posture development, conventional military modernization, and national security policymaking proc …
A week ago, Indian armed forces killed Burhan Wani, the infamous 21 year-old commander of the Kashmiri militant separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen (HM). Burhan had joined Hizbul Mujahideen at the age of 15, helped resurrect the once dominant insurgent …
Last Friday, following another uninspiring meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, Pakistan issued a statement that more needed to be done militarily to deny Taliban military gains and bring the group back to the negotiating table. T …
The second coming of multiple warhead missiles after the Cold War, this time in Asia, has begun with Beijing’s long-awaited deployments of the DF-5B missile. A new book released today by the nonpartisan Stimson Center, The Lure and Pitfalls of …
During the limited war between India and Pakistan in the heights above Kargil in 1999, and again after the attack on the Indian Parliament building in 2001 by Pakistani nationals, the United States engaged in intense diplomacy to defuse a severe crisis …
Michael Krepon and Amit Sevak, eds. Relations between India and Pakistan are at a low ebb and are likely to get worse. Relations between India and China are improving, but reversals can easily occur. This important and timely volume, the first of its k …
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 of additional details. We conclude that this crisis is both unresol …
August 11, 2011 – Alistair Millar joined us for a discussion on counterterrorism efforts in South Asia and the Horn of Africa. Mr. Millar is founder and director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. He teaches graduate level cour …
In this piece appearing the February 2005 issue of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Stimson Center Research Assistant Ziad Haider analyzes the Sino-Pakistani relationshop in the context of Pakistan’s Gwadar Port.
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 politics in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and trade and movemen …
Michael Krepon and Chris Gagne, eds. Three commissioned essays investigate the linkages between cross-border economic interactions and regional security, focusing on India-Pakistan, Japan-China, and Argentina-Chile. The purpose of this collection of es …
Professor Zhang Guihong, in this article written while a Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center from October 2002 through January 2003, addresses the important transformations taking place in U.S.-Indian and U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake …
Presented to the Stimson Center/CNA NMD-China Project on February 20, 2002 During the Cold War, Europe was the region most likely to be affected – for better or for worse – by US missile defense deployments. Now Asia has replaced Europe as the region m …
Michael Krepon and Chris Gagne, eds. The five essays contained in the report focus on the complex triangular nuclear interaction among India, Pakistan, and China. These essays examine nuclear dangers in the region and propose strategies for reducing th …
Ranjeet K. Singh, ed. This report explores how China and Japan might better employ confidence-building measures (CBMs) as part of their security policies, and suggests ways that CBMs can be used to help resolve disputes in the South China Sea and relat …
India and Pakistan have now embraced the language, if not the spirit of confidence-building measures (CBMs). Government officials, media commentators,a dn researchers now use this term frequently. In China, the language of confidence-building measures …
By W.P.S. Sidhu, Brian Cloughley, John H. Hawes, and Teresita Schaffer India, Pakistan and China have negotiated a variety of confidence-building measures (CBMs) over the past decade, but implementation has been spotty, and progress slow. With the flig …
Where is China heading? How will Beijing practice the use of CBMs, which the extraordinary Norwegian peace-maker and strategic analyst, Johan Jørgen Holst, defined twenty years ago as instruments to convey “credible evidence of the absence of feared th …