Topic: South Asia

November 10, 2010 — Best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan and Ambassador Arun K. Singh joined us for a discussion of Mr. Kaplan’s new book Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American…

Michael Krepon was invited to the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.) in Berlin to give a talk on Pakistan on March 29. Click here to learn more…

Li Zhang, Stimson’s Visiting Fellow and professor of international relations at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, presented on China’s foreign policy objectives and strategy in South Asia on Monday, March…

May 3, 2010 — Mikkal E. Herberg, Research Director of the Energy Security Program at The National Bureau of Asian Research, joined us for a discussion on “pipeline politics” in Asia and the…

From December 5-7, the Stimson Center hosted a conference in Bangkok, with the support of the US State Department, bringing together Indian and Pakistani scientists, agricultural economists, water experts, and climate-change modelers to…

April 30, 2010 — Dr. John Horgan, Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism and Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Pennsylvania State University, joined us for a…

An upswing in sectarian violence in Pakistan, Bahrain and elsewhere in recent months highlights the historic tensions, and contemporary political importance of schisms between Sunni and Shia communities across the Muslim world. Why…

Professor David Steinberg, author of Turmoil in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar, and senior Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, will join us for a discussion on the current…

  Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey McCausland, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Research and Minerva Chair at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College    Moderator: Michael Krepon, Stimson Co-founder and Director, South Asia program…

Dr. Angel M. Rabasa, Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, will join us for a discussion of ungoverned spaces—failed or failing states, and what risks they pose for international peace and U.S….

On May 8, 2014, the Stimson Center’s South Asia Program hosted a luncheon discussion featuring Dr. Manoj Joshi, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. The talk focused on new challenges to deterrence…

Edward Luce, Washington Bureau Chief of the Financial Times and author of “In Spite of Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India”, discusses the economic and social challenges facing the subcontinent. Luce served…