Topic: South Asia

Commentary

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

January 30, 2018
Commentary

The Most Dangerous Word in the Draft Nuclear Posture Review

The arms-control diplomacy passages of the draft Nuclear Posture Review have drawn little attention, likely because little change was expected in this aspect

January 23, 2018
Event

How to Interpret Nuclear Crises: From Kargil to North Korea

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

January 23, 2018
Commentary

Rupture and Betrayal: Are Pak-US relations repairable?

Another rupture, another sense of betrayal. US-Pakistan relations have once again reached a low point with the Trump administration’s decision to withhold

January 16, 2018
Book

Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories

South Asia remains one of the most crisis-prone regions in the world with some of the highest levels of contested borders, militarized

January 11, 2018
Commentary

The Risk of a Nuclear-Tinged South Asian Crisis Is Rising

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

January 11, 2018
Commentary

Utilizing Article XIV Conferences to Boost the Two Norms that Matter Most

Quote of the week: “The hope of civilization…lies in international arrangements looking, if possible, to the renunciation of the use of the

January 4, 2018
Commentary

Take Small Steps to Advance the US-India Relationship

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

December 21, 2017
Commentary

Crisis Management Gets More Complicated between Pakistan and India

Quotes of the week: “The ability to win a local war cannot be translated into the ability to fight it safely and

December 20, 2017
Event

The Past and Future of South Asian Crises

Click here to read Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories. Two decades after India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, South

December 19, 2017
Chapter

Use Environmental Diplomacy to Resolve the Sir Creek Dispute

  by Saleem H. Ali[i] Saleem H. Ali holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Energy and the Environment at the

December 18, 2017
Commentary

No First Use

Quote of the week: “A ‘no first use’ policy would be the end of flexible response and thus of the very credibility

December 8, 2017