APARC: South Asia Initiative

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South Asia Initiative

Using rigorous research and global networks to address the region’s most consequential policy issues

About THE INITIATIVE

The South Asia Initiative (SAI) at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) is currently on hold.

During its period of operation, SAI produced academic scholarship and general-interest publications, organized events featuring world-class expertise to bear on high-interest topics, and collaborated with scholars and policymaking communities in the United States and across the Indo-Pacific region — all with the goal of addressing South Asia's pressing and consequential policy issues.

You can view below SAI publications, past events, and news archives. To receive APARC's continued updates about South Asia-related news and events, sign up for our newsletter.

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Zone Balancing: India and the Quad's New Strategic Logic

International Affairs, 2023 January 18, 2023

An article in International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 239–25.

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program

2022 October 28, 2022

A chapter in Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia

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Minilateral Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Asia Policy, 2022 October 22, 2022

An Asia Policy roundtable co-edited by Arzan Tarapore, including an essay by Oriana Skylar Mastro.

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Almost Parity: Understanding the India-Pakistan Conventional Military Balance

2021 August 31, 2021

A chapter in the edited volume 'Routledge Handbook on South Asian Foreign Policy'

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Indian Ocean Strategic Futures

Asia Policy, 2021 July 29, 2021

Re-examining assumptions of capability and intent

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Mitigating the Risk of a China–India Conflict

Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2021 June 29, 2021

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The Crisis After the Crisis: How Ladakh Will Shape India’s Competition with China

The Lowy Institute, 2021 May 6, 2021

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Building Strategic Leverage in the Indian Ocean Region

The Washington Quarterly, 2020 December 11, 2020

The United States and its likeminded partners, particularly India — if four constraints are more realistically accounted for — and other members of the Quad, can more effectively mitigate the risks of Chinese military expansion by building “strategic leverage” along these four lines of effort in the Indian Ocean region.

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Exploring India's Strategic Futures

The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2020 September 10, 2020

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