Pakistan’s Full-Spectrum Deterrence: Trends and Trajectories
Twenty years ago, the government of Pakistan decided to respond in kind to India’s nuclear tests in May 1998. Pakistan conducted six nuclear explosions to […]
End of the Afghan Conflict: Pakistan’s Hopes and Fears
The six-day long deliberations between the Afghan Taliban and U.S. negotiators in Qatar at the end of January ended in an in principle agreement to […]
The Subcontinental Podcast – Episode 7 – A Conversation with Manpreet Sethi & Sadia Tasleem
This episode of The Subcontinental podcast features three guests: Manpreet Sethi, a Senior Fellow and head of the Nuclear Security Project at the Centre for Air Power Studies in […]
Measuring South Asian Democracy: An Assessment of 2018
Several key trends in 2018 point toward the gradual entrenchment of democracy in South Asia. While most South Asian democracies are neither theoretically flawless nor […]
Pakistan in the Indo-Pacific: Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire
The naval commanders’ panel at the recently-held Raisina Dialogue hosted by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi […]
افغانستان کے لئے چین کی حکمت عملی: پاکستان پر انحصار سے نکلنے کی کوشش؟
چونکہ امریکی افواج کی افغانستان میں موجودگی کے حوالے سے غیر یقینی کی صورتحال بحالئ امن اور مفاہمتی عمل پر خطرے کی مانند چھائی ہوئی […]
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Looking Ahead to 2019: Nepal’s Development Aspirations Under Pressure
In 2018, Nepal witnessed defining political moments that have set the tone for a future course in the country’s domestic and foreign policy. With a […]
Can China Spur Economic Development in South Asia?
After the initiation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, South Asia has often been described as the linchpin of connectivity amongst BRI-participating […]
The Kashmir-Afghanistan Conundrum: Why India Shouldn’t Fear a Repeat of History
When the United States President Donald Trump first announced plans for the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the question of the implications for Kashmir became a […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: The Great Indian Balancing Act
Whether one lauds or condemns the specifics of India’s foreign policy orientation under the premiership of Narendra Modi, one can hardly ignore his efforts to […]
Evaluating India and Pakistan’s Strategic Narratives
In a recent series for South Asian Voices, two scholars each from India and Pakistan shared their thoughts on India and Pakistan’s military doctrines, postures, […]
Hot Take on Indian Budget: Inadequate for Defense Needs
When Indian finance minister Piyush Goyal announced in the Parliament on Friday that India’s defense budget would cross ₹3 lakh crore (approximately USD 42 billion) […]
India, China, and the Battle of Perceptions in the Indo-Pacific
As the concept of the Indo-Pacific region (IOR) begins to gain traction in the United States and elsewhere, China and India are being increasingly juxtaposed […]
افغان سیکورٹی فورسز کا بحران: مسئلہ قابلِ حل؟
اس حقیقت سے انکار نہیں کیا جا ساکتا کہ افغانستان کو بگڑتی ہوئی سیکورٹی صورتحال کا سنگین مسئلہ درپیش ہے۔افغانستان کے ۷۰فیصد علاقوں میں طالبان […]
Moscow’s View of the Quad & the Indo-Pacific: Threatening Russia’s Space
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad), comprising the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, reappeared on the international stage in November 2017 after a ten-year […]
Afghan Security Forces in Crisis: A Fixable Problem?
There is no denying the fact that Afghanistan is challenged by a deteriorating security situation. With the Taliban maintaining a presence in 70 percent of […]
The Electoral Politics of the BJP’s Statue Nationalism
India has built the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity, on a river island of the Narmada River in Gujarat. The statue is a […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: Sri Lanka’s Uncertain Future
The collapse of the coalition government, leading to a constitutional crisis, highlighted a year marred by uncertainty for Sri Lankan politics and economics. While some […]
Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea: Implications for India
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping made a splash internationally when in his first military order of 2019 he instructed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be […]
سال ۲۰۱۹ کی جانب : نئے پاکستان کیلئے ایک کٹھن راستہ
پاکستان کے ۲۲ویں وزیراعظم عمران خان کے انتخاب کے ساتھ سال ۲۰۱۸ پاکستان کے لئے نتیجہ خیز ثابت ہوا۔ پاکستان تحریک انصاف (پی ٹی آئی) […]
India’s Vision of the Quad Needs Clarity
At the Raisina Dialogue, an annual multilateral conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics hosted by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research Foundation in […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: A Precarious Year for Afghanistan
The United Nations Strategic Review of 2017 reclassified Afghanistan from a post-conflict state to an active conflict state. As we enter 2019, the conflict not […]
Quad: An Investment Counterweight to China?
New Delhi’s role in the “Quad” grouping, made up of the United States, Japan, and Australia besides India, has been the subject of myriad debates […]
SAV Review: When Push Comes to Shove, Will India’s NFU Stand?
Editor’s Note: This piece is a response to Reshmi Kazi’s review of Kumar Sundaram and M.V. Ramana’s article “India and the Policy of No First Use […]
China’s Afghanistan Strategy: Coming Out of Pakistan’s Shadow?
As uncertainty regarding U.S. troop presence looms over Afghanistan’s peace and reconciliation process, observers are looking at the role of other important regional players in […]
Unfurling Black Flags: ISIS and the Divide over Islam in Kashmir
As the “deadliest year in a decade” was coming to an end for Kashmir, on December 28th a group of youngsters with their faces covered […]
Kashmir Mediation Ahead of Indian Elections: All Smoke, No Fire
Four successive wars and 46 premier-level engagements have not led to any concrete resolution of the seventy-year-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Since the […]
It’s Time for Regional Countries to Take the Lead in Afghanistan
A partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, an eventuality that has been intensely debated in the last six months, appears imminent. Media reports about […]
سال ۲۰۱۹ کی جانب: افغانستان کیلئے ایک غیر یقینی کا سال
اقوام متحدہ کے ۲۰۱۷ سٹریٹیجک جائزے میں افغانستان کو ایک مرتبہ پھر بعد از جنگ والے ممالک کی فہرست سے فعال جنگی ممالک والے گروپ […]
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Wither U.S.-Pak Relations? Impact of American Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban and the United States are reportedly close to finalizing a deal to end America’s longest war. After weeks-long negotiations, Washington and the […]