Full Event Transcript (PDF) Two years after Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022, Pakistan will hold elections on February 8, 2024. While the outcome of the elections may not be a surprise, the intensity of Pakista …
Published February 1, 2024 / Held February 12, 2024
Read the full event transcript Afghanistan’s western-backed government fell to the Taliban over two years ago, triggering an ongoing humanitarian crisis as most development assistance dried up. While Taliban rule has reduced violence within the co …
Published August 31, 2023 / Held September 12, 2023
As public support for nuclear weapons in South Korea grows significantly, experts will discuss the nuclearization of South Asia as a comparative case that could offer South Korea lessons for its own possible nuclear future. Co-hosted by Stimson’s South …
A discussion with Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Masood Khan looking ahead to U.S.-Pakistan relations and broader regional dynamics in 2023. Moderated by South Asia Director Elizabeth Threlkeld, the discussion will focus on areas of opport …
Published November 29, 2022 / Held December 8, 2022
Panelists Beenish Pervaiz, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University Sylvia Mishra, Senior Nuclear Policy Associate, Institute for Security and Technology and Nonresident Fellow, Stimson Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment f …
Published November 14, 2022 / Held October 28, 2022
Please join us for a discussion with Feroz Khan regarding his landmark new book on India-Pakistan strategic relations, Subcontinent Adrift: Strategic Futures of South Asia. Uniquely for one volume, this book examines the security challenges faced …
Published October 14, 2022 / Held October 25, 2022
Please join us for a discussion with the authors of the Stimson South Asia program’s recent groundbreaking publication: “Confidence and Nationalism in Modi’s India.” Using results from a new survey, this research note examines public opinions in India …
This August marks 75 years since Partition, the violent division of British India into the independent states of India and Pakistan. Millions were displaced in what was one of the largest mass migrations in history, while countless others lost their li …
Foreward This collection of essays, developed in partnership with CRDF Global, features the work of rising scholars from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Authors were selected through a competitive application process, received grants to support their …
The U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue convened Indian and American national security experts to offer insight on strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Full Conference Schedule (EST): 8:00 – 8:07AM: Welcome and Introduction (By Akriti Vasudeva, Editor-at-large, South Asian Voices and Research Analyst) 8:07 – 8:15AM: Prospects for and Current Status of Gender Mainstreaming in South Asia (By Priyanka Bh …
Published November 4, 2021 / Held November 16, 2021
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan it is important to examine the role Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) may play in the country’s future security landscape.
For the last 20 years, the United States has mostly overlooked its divergences with India in multilateral forums as the relationship paid economic, strategic, and political dividends bilaterally, whereas the costs of divergences at the multilateral level were negligible. In spite of such exceptionalism enjoyed by New Delhi, U.S. diplomats at all levels reminded their Indian counterparts that India’s “obstinate role [at the UN] was increasingly at odds with our emerging strategic proximity.”
With multilayered and long-standing ties to Afghanistan, Pakistani political actors on the Af-Pak border have an important role to play in Afghanistan’s peace process.
Speakers David O. Smith is a Distinguished Fellow with the Stimson Center (South Asia Program) and an independent consultant to Sandia National Laboratories on issues related to South Asia. The former Senior Country Director for Pakistan in the Departm …
Published September 14, 2020 / Held October 1, 2020
Speakers: Happymon Jacob, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Sameer Lalwani, Director, Stimson Center South Asia Program Tamanna Salikuddin, Director, South Asia Programs, United States Institute of Peace (moderator) Read Sameer Lal …
On August 5, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian government sought to arrest a thirty-year insurgency with an unprecedented change to the country’s constitution to revoke autonomy provisions for the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), s …