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SAV Collection: Understanding the Factors Behind Bangladesh’s Protests
On August 5, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of nation-wide protests…
Unpacking India’s 2024 Elections: Surprises and Continuities
Narendra Modi was sworn in on June 8 as the…
SAV Joint Series: Climate Diplomacy in South Asia
Climate change has no borders. In the face of escalating…
SAV Collection: South Asia’s Quest for Nuclear Energy
South Asia, home to over two billion people and a…
Assessing the IMF's Role in South Asia's Development
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Revisiting The Washington Consensus in South Asia
For most of the three decades after the end of the Cold War, economic “experts” and governments across large parts…
The IMF’s Role in Shaping India’s Current Economic Outlook
The birth of the IMF and an independent India occurred in close parallel. As the world saw an end to…
The IMF’s Evolving Role in Sri Lanka Amidst Increasing Chinese Investments and Great Power Competition
Introduction Sri Lanka's widely-discussed economic crisis, which resulted from a combination of policy missteps, culminated in the country's default on…
75 Years After Partition
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Framing Identity within Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
Since independence, Pakistan’s national identity has remained enigmatic despite religious ideology informing the fundamental rationale for the state’s existence. This…
75 Years After Partition: Reflections from South Asian Voices Readers and Contributors
This month marks 75 years since South Asia witnessed the brutal Partition of the Indian subcontinent as the newly created…
Bengal’s Multiple Partitions
The 1947 partition of India and Pakistan has been characterized as a “division of hearts,” as the prioritization of communal…
From the Editors: The Ukraine Crisis and Implications for South Asia
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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…
Ukraine and the Return of South Asian Non-Alignment
The four largest South Asian states (by economic size)—India, Pakistan,…
The Ukraine Invasion and Afghanistan’s Current Crisis
While all eyes remain on the current Russian onslaught in…
“Denazification,” Disinformation, and how (Pseudo)Authoritarian States Justify War
When Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale assault on Ukraine, he…
The Crisis That Wasn’t: A Review of India’s Accidental Missile Launch into Pakistan
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SAV Q&A with Frank O’Donnell: Key Takeaway’s from India’s Missile Malfunction
On March 24, 2022, Frank O’Donnell spoke with South Asian Voices Managing Editor Brigitta Schuchert and Associate Editor Isha Gupta…
India-Pakistan: A Missile Misfired Opens Up Opportunity
Pakistan has surprised India twice in the past month. Most recently, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan praised India’s position on…
The Luck Factor: Preventing Nuclear War in South Asia
On March 9, an Indian BrahMos missile entered Pakistani airspace and fell on Pakistani territory, causing some damage to the…
Regional Roundtable: Reflections on Balakot
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SAV Q&A with Lisa Curtis: U.S. Lessons from Balakot
On February 9th, 2022 Lisa Curtis spoke with South Asian Voices Managing Editor Brigitta Schuchert and Associate Editor Isha Gupta…
SAV Q&A
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SAV Q&A with Noorulain Naseem – Pakistan’s Declaration Against Undocumented Migrants
In a recent announcement, the Pakistani government declared that 1.7 million undocumented Afghan migrants must leave the country by November 1st either voluntarily or by…
SAV Q&A with Uzair Younus: Breaking Down Pakistan’s Economic and Political Turbulence
Over the summer, Pakistan's economy has been in an increasingly precarious position as deeply rooted structural vulnerabilities collide with the…
SAV Q&A with Asanga Abeyagoonasekera: Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis – Part 2
On July 15, Asanga Abeyagoonasekera spoke with South Asian Voices Deputy Editor Isha Gupta on new developments in Sri Lanka's economic…
2021: A Year in Review
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Pakistan in 2021: Changes, Challenges, and a Roadmap to Stability
On the first of January newspapers of Pakistan and India once again carried a small non-descript column stating that both…
India 2021 Year In Review: Another Year of Silencing Dissent
India’s political scene in 2021 appears to have come full…
Afghanistan in 2021: The End of the Republic and the Return of the Islamic Emirate
At the beginning of 2021, Afghans faced another year of…
Bangladesh’s 2021 Year in Review: Celebrating 50 Years of Development Through Pandemic Resilience
2021 was supposed to be a year of festivities for…
Gender & Geopolitics: A Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia
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Assessing the Need for a Feminist Foreign Policy in Sri Lanka
Several countries, including Sweden, Canada, France, and Spain, have embraced the implementation of a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), bringing to…
Gender Mainstreaming in South Asia: Country Perspectives
After the introductory South Asian Voices–Kubernein Initiative webinar on the need for a Feminist Foreign Policy Framework in South Asia, regional analysts from…
The Missing “Gender” in Foreign Policy
It is almost universally recognized that promoting the empowerment of women and girls leads to improved governance, economic growth, better…
Subnational Diplomacy in South Asia: An SAV-9DashLine Joint Series
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Challenges to Subnational Diplomacy: The Tangled Roots of Punjab
Since the partition of Punjab—a consequence of the wider India-Pakistan partition in 1947—the “Land of Five Waters” has been the…
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The Escalation of Ceasefire Violations across The Line of Control
By the first half of 2020, ceasefire violations across the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in Jammu and…
The China-India-Pakistan Triangle: Origins, Contemporary Perceptions, and Future
Even as India and China find themselves embroiled in yet…
India and Pakistan’s Untapped Trade Potential
Analysis of India-Pakistan relations has been often dominated by security…
The Kartarpur Corridor and Its Impact on Indo-Pak Relations
On October 24, officials from the Indian and Pakistani governments…
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SAV Webinar: Disinformation and Crisis Escalation in South Asia
Disinformation, especially spread through the proliferation of new media technologies, has played an increasingly important…
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