FEATURED EVENT
Pakistan: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism
Ikram Sehgal, Chairman of Pathfinder G4S (Pakistan’s largest private security firm), will join the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council on Thursday, February 11, for a discussion on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Pakistan.
Online Security Jam: Security and Defense Agenda
From February 4 through 9, Security and Defense Agenda will host its 2010 Security Jam in partnership with the Atlantic Council.
India-China Relations: Current Issues and Emerging Trends
Mohan Guruswamy, Chairman of the Center for Policy Alternatives in New Delhi, discussed the emerging rivalry between India and China with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center.
2010: A Watershed Year for South Asia
The South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council invited contributors to offer their ideas and predictions about events in the greater South Asia region in 2010.
Will Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Work?
A panel of military and political experts joined the Council’s South Asia Center to evaluate the implications of and global reactions to President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy.
Terror in Mumbai
The South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council screened the HBO documentary Terror in Mumbai. Following the film, a panel discussion on Indian security, India-Pakistan relations and the future prevention of such events was moderated by South Asia Center director Shuja Nawaz.
Ashraf Ghani: Rescuing Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Dr. Ashraf Ghani, a recent Afghan presidential candidate and founder of the Insititute for State Effectiveness, recommended policies to rescue government legitimacy and strengthen state functionality in Afghanistan in the wake of controversial August presidential elections.
South Asia
Under the leadership of Shuja Nawaz, the South Asia Center is the Atlantic Council’s focal point for work on Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan as well as on relations between these countries and China, Central Asia, Iran, the Arab world, Europe and the U.S. As part of the Council's Asia program, the Center seeks to foster partnerships with key institutions in the region to establish iself as a forum for dialogue between decision makers in South Asia, the U.S. and NATO. These deliberations cover internal and external security, governance, trade, economic development, education and other issues. Working within the region itself, rather than in Washington alone, creates greater local ownership of results.Pakistan: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism
February 11, 2010
Ikram Sehgal, Chairman of Pathfinder G4S (Pakistan’s largest private security firm), will join the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council on Thursday, February 11, for a discussion on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Pakistan.
Online Security Jam: Security and Defense Agenda
February 09, 2010
From February 4 through 9, Security and Defense Agenda will host its 2010 Security Jam in partnership with the Atlantic Council.
Afghanistan and U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Arnaud de Borchgrave | February 02, 2010
All the talk is how to end the Afghan war, not how to win it. Until recently, powers that be in Washington were proselytizing about the need for a long-term commitment – five to 10 years if necessary – to defeat the Taliban.
Justice in Bangladesh after 34 Years
Zafar Sobhan | January 29, 2010
Bangladesh's long national nightmare is finally over. Not entirely over, of course. There are still six convicted killers absconding beyond the reach of the law, and there remain, and perhaps always will remain, unanswered questions about that dark night in Bangladeshi history and its aftermath.
India and Pakistan are Nuclear States—Let's Make it Official
Luv Puri | January 28, 2010
In May 1998, surprise nuclear tests by India and Pakistan transformed regional strategic calculations and added a dangerous new dimension to tensions between the two.
India-China Relations: Current Issues and Emerging Trends
January 25, 2010
Mohan Guruswamy, Chairman of the Center for Policy Alternatives in New Delhi, discussed the emerging rivalry between India and China with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center.
Bangladesh's India Charm Offensive
Zafar Sobhan | January 25, 2010
Anti-Indianism has been the mother's milk of Bangladeshi politics ever since the BNP decided to make it the cornerstone of the party's electoral appeal to the country in the 1970s. With anti-Indian governments in control of the national narrative for almost all of the time since, this alignment has had a devastating impact on Bangladesh's political and social evolution.
India and Pakistan: Deadlines for Dialogue
Suhasini Haidar | January 21, 2010
As a slew of new informal initiatives try to build a "roadmap" for a new India-Pakistan dialogue, it may be time to look at some of the circumstances in which dialogue has been derailed in the past — and hunt clues for the future.
The Future of Iran's Green Movement
Nazenin Ansari and Jonathan Paris | January 14, 2010
The deadline for Iran to accept a U.N.-brokered deal on its controversial nuclear program expired on December 31, proving yet again that the policy of modifying the behavior of the Islamic Republic is not working. While Washington frets over what the Obama Administration should do next, legitimate power is tilting away from the central government toward a confident Green Movement.
The Future of Iran
January 14, 2010
Jonathan Paris, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and adjunct fellow at the London-based Legatum Institute, co-authored an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with Nazenin Ansari entitled "The Future of Iran."
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