Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

This essay examines Pakistan’s most significant nontraditional security challenges, including climate change, increasing population and urbanization, food security, and water security.

Ahead of the 9/11 Conference that NBR’s Slade Gorton International Policy Center will host on September 9, Sen. Gorton reviewed the last decade of security policy and previewed the challenges to come.

S.R. Joey Long, Simon Tay, Kumar Ramakrishna, Carlyle A. Thayer and Zheng Wang

In this roundtable, five experts assess U.S. engagement in Asia with a focus on how to better strengthen ties while navigating policy challenges, the financial crisis, resurgent extremist groups, and rising suspicions among regional players.

How can economic development serve as a powerful and effective tool for promoting security? Dr. Erfa Iqbal (Government of Pakistan) discusses specific development projects underway in rural Pakistan, the impact of these initiatives, and how governments and the private sector can best foster security through sustainable local economies.

The U.S.-Pakistan relationship has received renewed attention in both countries after U.S. Navy Seals raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing Osama bin Laden. C. Christine Fair, a National Asia Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, tells NBR that the increased attention does not necessarily mean that the fundamentals of the relationship have changed. She argues that the relationship leaves few options for the United States, which needs Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan.

Thomas H. Johnson

This essay examines the social and political roles of religious figures in southern Afghanistan in an attempt to develop a more nuanced understanding of the present insurgency.

Sumit Ganguly

This report examines the prospects and challenges for effective regional counterterrorism cooperation in South Asia.

Ellen L. Frost, A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Yuan-Kang Wang, Barrett L. McCormick and William Ratliff

Reviews of books written by Kishore Mahbubani, Asoka Bandarage, Yong Deng, Irene S. Wu, and Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz, eds.

Rasul Bakhsh Rais

This essay examines the difficulties that Afghanistan and Pakistan face in structuring a stable relationship based on trust, cooperation, and mutual interest.

Abdulkader H. Sinno

This essay examines post–September 11 Afghanistan-Pakistan relations in the context of the ongoing militant threat faced by each country.