By Donald Camp — The drill used to be predictable. Since the nuclear era dawned in South Asia, any sign of border tensions between India and Pakistan would set off alarm bells in the foreign ministries of the United States and…
In this episode, we discuss conflict resolution and development in the northeast Indian state of Nagaland. The long-running insurgency in Nagaland looks to be drawing to a close following conclusion of a framework for a peace agreement in 2015 between…
By Shahed Ghoreishi — China has most of the pieces of a major global power. Its economy, set to be the world’s largest by 2030, passes the test. Its diplomats remain active in the United Nations Security Council and in…
CSIS has launched a new podcast series titled Impossible State focusing explicitly on North Korea. Listen to the first two episodes here via Sound Cloud or on iTunes. The first episode features Dr. Victor Cha discussing President Donald Trump’s letter…
By Satoru Mori — What must the Japan-U.S. alliance do to retain overmatch in the long-term peacetime military competition with China in an age when defense innovation is accelerating rapidly? This question will require forward looking efforts by alliance managers…
By Kartikeya Singh — This month, three of India’s “seven sisters” states (Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland), those located in the country’s ethnically distinct northeast, head to the polls. Situated in a region long plagued by security challenges and poor infrastructure,…
In the latest Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative podcast, CSIS experts Zack Cooper and Bonnie Glaser join AMTI director Gregory Poling to discuss the South China Sea at the start of 2018, including whether the Trump administration has an effective strategy…
In this podcast, we take a deep dive into the outcomes of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress. Now that the dust has settled following Xi Jinping’s resounding win, we turned to two leading China-watchers to analyze the implications…
In the 10 years since China’s first successful anti-satellite test, the vulnerability of essential U.S. space systems has been underscored and competition in outer space has resumed. How has the United States responded? What are the implications for strategy and…
By Gurmeet Kanwal — The U. S. government has once again thrown its weight behind the United Nations Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism (CCIT), first introduced by India in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in 1996. In a joint statement…