Topic: South Asia

Breaking the Impasse: Direct Talks between Army Chiefs

By Feroz Hassan Khan Feroz Hassan Khan is a research professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a former director of arms…

India and the NPT After 50 Years

As the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) turns 50 this summer, so will India’s refusal to accede to the Treaty on grounds that it is a biased legal instrument that divided the world into…

U.S.-China: A New Hyphenation Driving U.S.-Pakistan Relations?

By Sameer Lalwani and Hamza Shad   A Brief History Since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, it has had a mixed relationship with the United States, encompassing several ups and downs over the decades….

One Year After They Almost Went to War, Can China and India Get Along?

By Sameer Lalwani   While Sino-Indian friction will continue, relations have improved from last year’s low, and a border standoff seems unlikely for three reasons: learning, national self-interest, and drifting U.S.-India relations. First,…

A New Look at Crisis Management in South Asia

Editor’s note: The Stimson Center has a longstanding interest in the dynamics of U.S. crisis management between India and Pakistan. We have published case studies of the 2001-2 “Twin Peaks”  and the 2008 Mumbai crises, as…

Retrospectives on 20th Anniversary of India and Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests

We are pleased to announce the release of a special video series, “Retrospectives on India and Pakistan’s May 1998 Nuclear Tests,” to mark the 20th anniversary of the subcontinent’s overt nuclearization. This series…

20 Years After Pokhran-II: Have Nuclear Weapons Made India More Secure?

In May 1998, India detonated five nuclear devices in the Thar Desert, crossing the threshold from a nuclear-capable to a nuclear-armed state. Indian Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee authorized the tests, fulfilling the Bharatiya…

Economic coercion unlikely to stop Pakistan from backing militants

Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended most security assistance, including Coalition Support Funds (CSF), to Pakistan and led the charge to place the country on an international terrorism-financing watchlist, beginning next month. Why it…

Does Washington Need to Be Neutral in South Asia?

By Travis Wheeler The American crisis management in South Asia since India and Pakistan tested nuclear devices in May 1998 has had the overriding objectives of preventing crises from escalating to limited warfare, and preventing limited warfare…

Investigating Subcontinental Crises

In this article for Pakistan Politico, Sameer Lalwani and Hannah Haegeland review their edited volume, Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories, which is freely available at crises.stimson.org. Nearly two decades after the…

Avoiding Incidents at Sea between India and China

By Monish Tourangbam Monish Tourangbam is an assistant professor in the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Karnataka. He is the coordinator of the Northeast…

Trump and Kim Upend Diplomatic Protocol

Quote of the week: “Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy…

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