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Disinformation and Crisis Escalation in South Asia
Perhaps the most notable global shift in the past decade has been the sheer speed at which information travels. While this has exciting prospects for knowledge sharing and innovation, it has also contributed to the multifaceted challenge that disinformation poses…

From the Editors: The Ukraine Crisis and Implications for South Asia
The world has fundamentally changed just over a month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the decision to launch “a special military operation” into Ukraine on February 24, more than four million Ukrainians have…

The Crisis That Wasn’t: A Review of India’s Accidental Missile Launch into Pakistan
On March 9, a cruise missile launched from Western India crossed the international border into Pakistan, landing in the small city of Mian Channu. The missile crash caused no significant damage or civilian harm, and was noted to be “unarmed”…

Regional Roundtable: Reflections on Balakot
On February 14, 2019 a suicide bombing on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama in Indian Administered Kashmir killed at least 40 security personnel. The attack, carried out by a young Kashmiri man named Adil Ahmad Dar and claimed by…

2021: Year in Review
2021 was a year of change for South Asia. Along with countries across the region working to vaccinate their populations amidst surges of new variants of COVID-19, the year was also marked by pivotal events that will shape political affairs…

Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia: A Kubernein Initiative-South Asian Voices Joint Series
Since Sweden announced a Feminist Foreign Policy in 2014, several other nations have also begun this journey, however the conversation and frameworks are largely rooted in western countries. In this series, run jointly with the Kubernein Initiative, contributors from across the…