Twenty Years into Nuclear South Asia: Pathways to Stability
Amidst the regional optimism in South Asia that immediately followed the February 1999 Lahore Declaration, few scholars and analysts of the time would have predicted […]
Category: CBMs
Twenty Years into Nuclear South Asia: Mitigating Dangers Together
Twenty years ago this month, India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in Pokhran (Rajasthan) and Chagai (Balochistan) respectively. Expectedly, the tests sparked international opprobrium, followed […]
Twenty Years into Nuclear South Asia: Resuming Dialogue to Stabilize Deterrence
Deterrence theory suggests that a stable deterrence moderates the security dilemma between rival nuclear states. Nearly four decades ago, Kenneth Waltz, a leading nuclear optimist, […]
The Case for Nuclear Disarmament in South Asia
In the current global strategic environment, nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan consider nuclear deterrence to be a peace guarantor in South Asia, largely due to […]
Off Ramps Review: The Risks of Expanding the Non-Attack Agreement
Editor’s note: This is the third and final piece in South Asian Voices’ review series of the Off Ramps Initiative, a Stimson Center project that examines the […]
Pakistan’s Soft Power Problem
In the aftermath of the Uri attack on an Indian army camp, India has adopted an aggressive foreign policy towards Pakistan. The pressure seems to […]
Hot Takes: Perspectives on India-Pakistan Nuclear Non-Testing
Indo-Pak CTBT: High Merits, Bleak Outlook! By Sobia Paracha Twice this month, Pakistan has offered to begin negotiations with India on a mutual nuclear test […]
The Subcontinental Podcast- Episode 4 – Salman Ahmad
This episode of The Subcontinental features guest Salman Ahmad, the founder of Pakistani rock band Junoon. Salman and his wife, Samina, run the Salman & Samina […]
What’s the Future of CBMs in South Asia?
One of India’s eminent strategists, the late K. Subrahmanyam, once observed, “There is not much, if at all any, literature on the game of deterrence […]
India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs: A New Approach
Anniversaries of significant events are customary occasions for making assessments about the past and recommendations for the future. This May, as we mark the paradigm-shifting […]