South Asia

So Much for the Good War

It's time to admit that Obama's Afghanistan strategy is a total failure.

BY ARIF RAFIQ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Nobody Told Asia About The End of Men

Mara Hvistendahl takes on Hanna Rosin.

BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Buddhism Problem

Why isn't Burma's democracy icon speaking up for minorities -- and against her country's nationalistic, racist, xenophobic, and occasionally violent Buddhist majority?

BY WILLIAM MCGOWAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Subcontinental Divide

Why India will disappoint both the United States and China.

BY C. RAJA MOHAN | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Delhi Laughs

The heavy-handed political cartoons that have India's government hot under the collar.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

India, Meet Icarus

Why no one should be surprised that the emerging economic superpower is getting cut back down to size.

BY PETER PASSELL | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

State of Terror

Why Obama should blacklist Pakistan -- not just the Haqqanis.

BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Skateboarding in Kabul

Half-pipes and headscarves in the Hindu Kush.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Reading Corinthians in Karachi

Haunting photos of Pakistan’s persecuted Christians.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Race to the End

Pakistan's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea to develop battlefield nukes.

BY TOM HUNDLEY | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Radioactive

AQ Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and the worst nuclear proliferator in history, is launching a new political movement. His goal? No less than to become Pakistan's Nelson Mandela.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

'Our Strategic Compass Is Unmoored'

Notes from a general to his active-duty sons on the lessons of Afghanistan.

BY DAVID BARNO | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Once Upon a Time in Karachi

Snapshots from a time when the cinemas were packed and the booze flowed. 

AUGUST 28, 2012

Countdown to Zero Dollars

The U.S. opened the door to nuclear trade with India -- and got nothing.

BY TOM HUNDLEY | AUGUST 9, 2012

Wandering Sikhs

From India to Wisconsin, a look at one of the world's most misunderstood religions.

AUGUST 6, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012

China's Military Moment

A window of opportunity is closing in the South China Sea. Will Beijing strike?

BY JIM HOLMES | JULY 26, 2012

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.

BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 2012

The House of Nehru-Gandhi

India ought to consider becoming a constitutional monarchy. After all, it already has a royal family.

BY SADANAND DHUME | JULY 20, 2012

Talking a Great Game

So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012

India Singhs the Blues

Why the country will pay the price for its wildly overrated prime minister.

BY SADANAND DHUME | JULY 9, 2012

Think Again: India's Rise

Is the world's largest democracy ready for prime time, or forever a B-list player on the global stage?

BY SUMIT GANGULY | JULY 5, 2012

Burma's Misled Righteous

How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military

BY FRANCIS WADE | JULY 5, 2012

The Missing 50 Percent

There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.

BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012

8 Geographical Pivot Points

From Angola to Yemen, eight countries whose futures are tied up in the land they occupy.

BY MARGARET SLATTERY | JUNE 18, 2012

What's Wrong with Pakistan?

Why geography -- unfortunately -- is destiny for South Asia's troubled heartland.

BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | JULY/AUGUST 2012

A Matter of Degrees

Do we really want multinational companies selling harmful lifestyles in the developing world?

JULY/AUGUST 2012

The Dictator Hunter's Wanted List

9 former autocrats and bad guys that should be made to pay for their crimes.

BY REED BRODY | JUNE 18, 2012

The Patience Runs Out

The United States has put up with Pakistan's insidious double game for a decade now. Not anymore.

BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | JUNE 12, 2012

The Battle at the Top of the World

A look at the remote glacial region where Pakistan and India are locked in a tense, and seemingly pointless, stalemate over frozen wilderness.

JUNE 11, 2012