Quote of the week: “I heard the president [Reagan] ask Zia how he would handle the fact that they would be violating their agreement [to ‘prevent within its territory the training, equipping, financing…
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,…
After a five-month-long interagency review process, senior officials have recommended that U.S. President Donald Trump send several thousand more troops to Afghanistan. The request is in line with proposals from General John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and…
Almost 30 heads of state will gather in Beijing this weekend for the “Belt and Road” Forum, the annual conference about the Chinese mega-project to build highways and railroads to the farthest parts of the…
By Michael Krepon and Sameer Lalwani We are pleased to announce the release of the complete, inaugural Stimson Open Online Course, Nuclear South Asia: A Guide to India, Pakistan, and the Bomb. This…
By Arka Biswas Arka Biswas is an associate fellow at the Observer Research Foundation currently pursuing projects on India’s nuclear weapons policy and doctrine, and India’s membership to the export control groups. His…
Naeem Salik’s Learning to Live with the Bomb: 1998-2016 is a more judicious treatment of hot-button issues than his earlier book, The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective, published in 2009. Back then, the…
The triangular competition in Southern Asia appears to be intensifying and posing challenges to stability. In China, India, and Pakistan, new conventional and strategic capabilities are coming online while old ones are being…
The continuation of the conflict in Afghanistan weakens US leverage over Pakistan, partly due to a continued dependence on Pakistan for air and ground lines of communication into Afghanistan. US national security advisor…
Stimson’s South Asia program maintains this timeline chronicling Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) made in South Asia since 1988, and updates it regularly with new events, agreements, and links to relevant news articles. 2017 January 1 India and Pakistan…
Quotes of the week: “There has been literally no chance at all that any sane political authority… would consciously choose to start a nuclear war. This proposition is true for the past, the…
Interview by Ankit Panda of The Diplomat Magazine The Kashmir Valley, ever a sore point situated between India, Pakistan, and China, saw a resurgence of instability over the last year, following the death of…
U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Duplicity, Betrayal, or National Interest?
Quote of the week: “I heard the president [Reagan] ask Zia how he would handle the fact that they would be violating their agreement [to ‘prevent within its territory the training, equipping, financing…