Better Late than Never: India-Pakistan Trade Steps in the Right Direction
By Persis Khambatta & Ketan Thakkar Last week, Pakistan haltingly announced its intention to begin normalizing trade relations with India, ultimately granting India MFN status. This means that...
View ArticleAsian War Cries
By Michael Vatikiotis It has been a terrible year so far in terms of security in the Asia Pacific region. Japan and China have come close to trading blows over disputed Senkaku/ Diaoyu islands in the...
View ArticleThe Leaderboard: Nisha Desai Biswal
Who is she? Ms. Nisha Biswal is the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs. This makes her the top U.S. diplomat responsible for the region and Secretary of...
View ArticleA New Incentive for U.S.-India collaboration on Indo-Pacific connectivity
By Vineeth Murthy While campaigning ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) then-candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, visited northeastern India and made...
View ArticleBuckling Down: How Beijing is Implementing its “One Belt, One Road” Vision
By Xinyi Yang & David A. Parker The “One Belt, One Road” (1BR) has quickly emerged as Chinese president Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy concept. An expansive effort anchored in planned...
View ArticleIndia Steps up its Role across Asia
By Samir Nair On April 25, a devastating earthquake struck Nepal and claimed the lives of over 8,000 people. In the immediate aftermath, India responded quickly and dispatched 500 relief personnel to...
View ArticleIndo-Pacific Economic Corridor: Opportunity for U.S., Indian, & ASEAN...
By James Wallar The U.S. administration’s rebalance toward Asia is fundamental to U.S. economic, commercial, and security interests and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the fulcrum for the...
View ArticleNarcotics from India to the United States: Pills, not Poppies
By Natalie Tecimer India is rarely considered a major counter-narcotics target of the United States, yet it is an increasing source of illegal drug trafficking to the U.S. However, the majority of the...
View ArticleCogitAsia Podcast: Feeding South Asia — Food Security in Bangladesh & India
In this episode we explore the challenge of feeding the hungry in South Asia. CSIS Global Food Security Project Director Kimberly Flowers and CSIS Wadhwani Chair Richard Rossow explain how issues of...
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan Tensions: India’s Expanded Toolkit
By Richard M. Rossow — On September 28, the Indian Army initiated a military strike against terror camps along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The exact nature of this action, as well as its location,...
View ArticleStill Looking to the Future: South Asia Energy Integration
By Robert W. Beckman — Eighteen years ago, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a program to foster energy integration in South Asia. The South Asia Regional...
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