Enhancing Deterrence Stability on the Subcontinent: The Case for Conventional Deterrence
…18, October 7, 2019, accessed April 3, 2020, https://www.news18.com/news/india/no-talks-with-india-until-situation-in-kashmir-changes-imran-khan-tells-us-senators-2337095.html. 13 John J. Mearsheimer, Conventional Deterrence (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP 1983),23-24. 14 Herman Kahn, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios (New York,…
Myanmar Reveals ASEAN’s Weak Spot Again
…Southeast Asian Nations, “The ASEAN Charter” December 2007 https://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/images/archive/publications/ASEAN-Charter.pdf 17 “Cambodia’s Hun Sen Gives Up on Myanmar,” Radia Free Asia, 16 February 2022, https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/towel-02162022174658.html. 18 Comment from Private Round Table….
Pakistan’s Political Economy Perpetuates Its Water Crisis
…20, no. 7 (September 2001): 817-837, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00025-7. 18 The News, “Farmers Reject Exorbitant Water Rates, Tax on Farm Produce,” June 16, 2021, https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/850313-farmers-reject-exorbitant-water-rates-tax-on-farm-produce. 19 Asad Hashim, “Parched for A Price:…
Global Economic Crisis and Southeast Asian Labor Migrants
By Junko Kobayashi – Labor migrants across the world, including Southeast Asians, are severely affected by the current global economic crisis. The demand for exports and investments declined and unemployment…
Future Urban Conflict, Technology, and the Protection of Civilians
…Future Operating Environment 2035,” (Shrivenham: HMG Publishing Service, 2014). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/646821/20151203-FOE_35_final_v29_web.pdf. 11 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, “Capstone Concept: Joint Military Operations in an Urban Environment,” NATO SH/SDP/J5/STP1/VP/18-000452 (2018). 12 Ibid. 13…
South Asia
…Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia, and two extensive case studies on US crisis management after the 2001-2 “Twin Peaks” crisis and 2008 Mumbai crisis. Deterrence stability doesn’t…
Op-ed by Ellen Laipson in World Politics Review on Europe’s migrant crisis
…truck in Austria. The horrific discovery moved the ever-expanding tragedy of illegal migration from war zones into Southern and Eastern Europe back into the spotlight. To continue reading, click here….
Think Tanks in a Mid Life Crisis
…and the spread of fake news and alternative facts. This has facilitated those with ulterior motives to create and spread fake news which we now see having an influence in…