South Asia

November 2008
India Held Back
by SUMIT GANGULY
“The country still faces a series of domestic and external challenges that remain significant hurdles on the path to great power status.”

November 2008
BOOK REVIEWS: Heroes Entwined: Gandhi and Churchill and Books in Brief
by Reviewers: Sumit Ganguly and William W. Finan Finan Jr.
Reviews of Books on South and Southeast Asia

November 2008
The Month in Review
by Editors of Current History
An international chronology of events in September 2008, country by country, day by day

November 2008
Map of Asia
by Editors of Current History
Map of Asia

May 2008
Going in Two Directions in South Asia
by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
"The maturity and sophistication of the Indo-us relationship are such that both countries will be able to tolerate differences, while simultaneously strengthening the sinews of their interdependence."

April 2007
Pakistan and the Islamists
by Husain Haqqani
"There is more to Pakistan than General Musharraf, and sooner or later us policy makers will have to turn their attention to the state of the Pakistani state."

April 2007
Bangladesh and the Burdens of History
by William B. Milam
"The bitter division between the parties goes to the very heart of the state itself, the national vision and the definition of the country."

April 2007
Toward a New Nepal?
by Rhoderick Chalmers
"Nepal's political leaders . . . will find it hard to meet popular expectations while also maintaining the delicate consensus among elites that underlies the politics of the peace process."

April 2007
India’s Remix Generation
by Rashmi Bansal
"Is this new caste-neutral, education-hungry, spend-happy young person representative of the real India?"

April 2007
Globalization and India’s Sense of Itself
by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Globalization and India's Sense of Itself

January 2007
Letter from Afghanistan: Are the Taliban Winning?
by Ahmed Rashid
"There is no doubt that Afghanistan has progressed enormously since 9-11, but now even the positive achievements carried out by the international community appear to be unraveling."

November 2006
The US-India Nuclear Pact: Bad for Security
by GARY MILHOLLIN
It is impossible to weaken export controls for India without weakening them for everyone else. The 'everyone else' includes Iran, Pakistan, and even terrorists. . . ."

November 2006
The US-India Nuclear Pact: A Good Deal
by DINSHAW MISTRY and SUMIT GANGULY
"Stronger US-India strategic ties resulting from the pact would lessen India's need to greatly expand its nuclear arsenal and would bind Indian governments more firmly to norms against nuclear testing."

November 2006
What If a Nuclear-Armed State Collapses?
by MICHAEL O'HANLON
"The nuclear danger posed by the potential for state failure in a North Korea or a Pakistan is one of the most menacing facing the international environment."

April 2006
India and the Asian Security Architecture
by VARUN SAHNI
"By building robust political and economic links with both China and the United States, India could end up playing an important catalytic role in bringing both countries together in a new cooperative Asia."

April 2006
Asia’s Challenged Giants
by SHALENDRA D. SHARMA
"China and India are already major players in the global economy. However, their impact in coming decades on the world's economic and strategic landscape will depend . . . on how each deals with its structural and economic challenges."

September 2005
Red Star over the Himalayas
by CHITRA TIWARI
"Those who have watched the deteriorating political conditions in Nepal for several years are skeptical of the royal regime's capacity to bring the insurgency under control. . . . Nepal, they say, is now destined for a surge in violence and the 237-year-old Nepali monarchy appears doomed."

April 2005
Nuclear Asia's Challenges
by Dinshaw Mistry
The middle-term challenges of averting a nuclear arms race in Asia are closely linked to the more immediate concern of reversing proliferation in North Korea.

March 2005
First Steps: The Afghan Elections
by Thomas J. Barfield
"For [Hamid] Karzai, winning a nationwide plebiscite made him the first elected leader in Afghan history and legitimized his government. . . . But his electoral victory will prove hollow unless he succeeds in using this window of opportunity to permanently change the dynamic of Afghan politics."

March 2005
America and Pakistan: Is the Worst Case Avoidable?
by Stephen Philip Cohen
"America should be concerned about the deeper causes of Pakistan's malaise, lest the country become the kind of nuclear-armed monster state that its critics already think it is."