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Pakistan, the IMF, and an Opportunity for Reform
Is Pakistan’s economy out of the woods and has it finally stabilized under the tutelage of successive International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs? That was a question on at least a few minds at the recently concluded IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings…
Strategic Relevance Without Reach: India’s Lagging Engagement with ASEAN
The 2025 edition of the State of Southeast Asia Survey Report, published by the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, highlights India’s growing strategic importance in the region. Drawing on the responses of Southeast Asian opinion leaders—including policymakers, academics, business professionals, civil society…
India-Taiwan Convergence: Towards A Strategic Partnership
It has become increasingly evident to much of the Indian strategic community that despite rhetoric, China does not share India's desire for friendship and cooperation. Since 2007, China has consistently asserted an aggressive posture in its longstanding border dispute with…
Pakistan in 2024: Economic Strife, Political Resentment, & Security Pressures Spell Gloom
Pakistan is experiencing multiple crises at once, both at its core and its periphery. The protracted concerns of political instability, economic recession, nation-building anxieties, and threats to security have combined into what many commentators have termed the state’s polycrisis. As…
Trump 2.0 Could Recalibrate U.S. Indo-Pacific Engagements
The just-concluded U.S. election was a dramatic showdown in more ways than one, leaving observers on edge as both a Republican and a Democratic win seemed equally plausible. Ultimately, Donald Trump clinched an unexpectedly decisive victory, securing both the popular…
India Should Take a Proactive Interest in the TAPI Pipeline
On September 11, 2024, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan declared a public holiday in Herat to mark the resumption of work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. At the inauguration ceremony, Taliban chief Mohammad Hassan Akhund and President Serdar Berdimuhamedov…