Quote of the week: “Clearly, five major crises within a twenty-year period indicate a fundamental structural problem… This region has not been stable and peaceful despite the common cultural and geopolitical heritage of…
Download the Event Audio, and Photos Here Watch the previously recorded livestream at the bottom of the webpage. With tensions mounting between the United States and North Korea, what has been clear is the wide disagreement among…
The arms-control diplomacy passages of the draft Nuclear Posture Review have drawn little attention, likely because little change was expected in this aspect of policy. Nevertheless, words matter here, especially when they seek to…
Another rupture, another sense of betrayal. US-Pakistan relations have once again reached a low point with the Trump administration’s decision to withhold most funding for military assistance. This announcement has generated even deeper…
South Asia remains one of the most crisis-prone regions in the world with some of the highest levels of contested borders, militarized interstate disputes, and terrorist attacks. India and Pakistan’s continued expansion of…
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 the recently revamped U.S. South Asia strategy may already be in…
Quote of the week: “The hope of civilization…lies in international arrangements looking, if possible, to the renunciation of the use of the atomic bomb.” — Harry S Truman Testing nuclear weapons and using…
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 contains eight mentions of U.S. objectives in the “Indo-Pacific” and seven of India…
Quotes of the week: “The ability to win a local war cannot be translated into the ability to fight it safely and therefore cannot provide a firm foundation for either deterrence or coercion.”…
Click here to read Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories. Two decades after India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, South Asia remains one of the most crisis-prone regions in the world…
by Saleem H. Ali[i] Saleem H. Ali holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware and is professorial research fellow at the University…
Quote of the week: “A ‘no first use’ policy would be the end of flexible response and thus of the very credibility of the Western strategy of deterrence.” – Secretary of State Alexander M….
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 stable and peaceful despite the common cultural and geopolitical heritage of…