Series

The Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) is dedicated to the study of contemporary South Asia. ISAS aims to generate knowledge and insights about the region, and to disseminate them in a manner that is useful to policymakers, the business community, academia and civil society. The ISAS Insights series focus on economics, politics and social issues in South Asia and on economic relationships between South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Publishers: Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)
Publications: Good Governance, Accountability and Sustainable Development in India
Chinese Projects in South Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative: Disrupted by Debt?
The Strategic Significance of the Modi-Putin Summit in Saint Petersburg
Donald Trump’s Visit to the Middle East: Pilgrimage for Peace or Invitation to Instability?
India Budget 2017: Fighting High Public Debt
Has Demonetisation Impaired Policy Credibility?
Political Uncertainty in Tamil Nadu: a Key Indian State
The States of South Asia: A Politico-Strategic Reality Check
Pakistan´s Relations with Oman: An Important Gateway to the Gulf
The Deepening Rohingya Crisis: Will it Engulf the Region?
Demonetisation of Indian Currency – An Assessment
Terror in Balochistan: New Lessons to Learn
India-Vietnam Ties: The Stamp of [the] ´Modi Doctrine´
The Coming Test of Civil-Military Ties in Pakistan
Implications of the South China Sea Arbitration Case
India-Myanmar Relations: Context of Contemporary Geographical Routes and Linkages
Forging Sri Lanka’s Third Republican Constitution
Structure and Resilience in India-Nepal Relations
A Transforming China: The Challenge of the
Technology, Development and the Role of the State
New Cross-Currents in the India-China-Pakistan Triangle
Pakistan Reinforces Resolve to Fight Terror
The Delhi Government - A Hybrid Structure
Trans-Pacific Partnership, India and South Asia
India's Latest GDP Growth Figures
India, and the High Note in China-Pakistan Symphony
Economic Drivers of India's External Engagement Strategy
South Korean Investments in India
New Neighbourliness in India-Sri Lanka Ties
Modi and the Indian Ocean: Restoring India's Sphere of Influence
Deciphering the AAP's Sweep in Delhi
Sri Lanka’s Transformational Election
Divided Verdict in Jammu and Kashmir
Indo-Pak Trade and Political Balance
Sri Lanka and Europe: Then and Now
A New Kind of Partnership: Social Media and Governance in the Modi Era
India ‘Looking East’ via Military Diplomacy
‘Make in India’: The Future of Indian Manufacturing
Strong Showing by BJP in Maharashtra and Haryana
Modi’s Major-Power Diplomacy
Indian Economy Looks up, in a New ‘Start'
A New Defining Moment in India-China Dialogue
Europe and Pakistan: A Partnership in Progress
Obama’s ‘War on Terror’: A South Asian View
By-Election Blow for BJP
India’s Consolidating Media
Sino-Indian Dialogue: Re-Configuring the Basic Agenda
The BRICS New Development Bank
Modi Government’s First Indian Budget
Pakistan’s Anti-Terror Offensive: The Zarb-e-Azb Operation
Signs of India under Global Re-Focus
US Trade-Aid Balance: Implications for Pakistan and the Region
Pakistan: Military versus the Media
India's New Neighborhood-Test
Time for a 'Reset' of Pakistan-India Ties
Modi Triumphs in India’s National Elections
Prospects for West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections
Economic Despondency and Indian Elections
India’s New Gesture to Sri Lanka: From Diaspora Politics to Realpolitik
Youth and Aam Aadmi Party
CPI-Bonds in India: A Troubled Take-off
Indo-Russian Defence Trade: A Recipe for Revival
The Road Ahead for Aam Aadmi Party
Sino-Indian Panchsheel and Japan's Overture to India
Employment in India
India and China: Marking Paths on the Space Highways
India’s State Elections: A BJP Sweep and New Politics of Urban India
Afghan National Security Force: Upcoming Challenges and Implications for South Asia
Threat of Indian Mujahideen: The Long View
A New Way to Manage an Old Dispute
Back to the Basics in Indo-Pak Puzzle
Manmohan Singh Meets Obama: Firming up Indo-US Strategic Partnership
A Common Economic Recipe for India and Pakistan
Ordinance Confusion in Election Season
A ‘Power-Sharing’ Moment in Sri Lanka
Karzai’s Diplomacy of Hopes and Wishes
India's Food Security Bill: Grave Digger or Game Changer?
Musharraf's Indictment: Going Through the Act?
Pakistan and the New Ethos of Muslim Middle Class
India-Pakistan Dilemma: To Talk or Not to Talk
Pressures on the Indian Rupee
The Changing Moods on the Sino-Indian Front
John Kerry's Islamabad Visit
Reading the West Bengal Panchayat Poll Results
Birth Pangs of
Prospects for Border Trade in Mizoram
South Asia: A Story of Key Development Indices
India: A Destination Nightmare for Tourists?
Countering Left-Wing Extremism in India
Bangladesh: Evolving Political Situation
Election Year in Bhutan: Litmus Test of Happiness?
Regional Security Cooperation in South Asia
The Prospects for Modi’s Prime Ministerial Ambitions
A Tale of Two Leaders
President Karzai's Visit to India
An Unusual Sino-Indian Summit and After
The Maoist Attack in Chhattisgarh
India-China Talks: Full-Scope Security Is Potential Issue
Drug Patents in India: Turf Battles
Asia and President Obama’s Second Term
The Expanding Shadow of States over Centre in India
Zero Dark Thirty and US-Pakistan Relations
Reading between the Lines of Indian Budget
Expanding India-ASEAN Connectivity
Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Enters Election Year: Perspectives on Polls and Politics
Putin in New Delhi: Re-Booting Traditional Ties
Political Challenges in Post-War Sri Lanka
India-China Border Parleys
FDI in Multi-brand Retail in India
Rebalancing-Obama 2.0: India’s Democratic Differential
The World after Great Power Withdrawals
Environmental Challenges in South Asia
'Green on Blue': Clash of Colours in the Afghan Coalition
The Great 'Exodus': Violence in Assam and its Aftermath
Clouded Sunshine Over India’s Economy
Multi-State Groupings Shaping the Global Scene
Peace Held Hostage in Sri Lanka
Is South Asia Condemned to Backwardness?
Singapore Symposium 2012 Papers-3
X-Factor in Sino-Indian Detente and Deterrence
India’s Cabinet Reshuffle: Paucity of Talent, Plethora of Challenges
Pakistan-India Detente: A Three-Step Tango
Afghanistan After America: Possible Post-Drawdown Scenarios
A Worrisome Blackout in India
Singapore Symposium 2012 Papers – 2
Pranab and the Future of Indian Presidency
Singapore Symposium 2012 Papers-1
Women’s Quiet Revolution in Pakistan
Re-Balancing of India-US Equation
Northeast India: Trade and Development Prospects
NATO and Afghanistan: Beginning of an Orderly or a Messy Process of Withdrawal?
Power Shortages in India's Southern Region
India-Myanmar Ties: The Trade Perspective
How Goliath Slew David at the United Nations
Pakistan's Judicial Renaissance: A New Phase?
State of Bangladesh Economy: A Prognosis for the Future
Hillary Clinton Visits India: Understanding the Unstated
Bhutan: Shades of 'Shangri-La' in a Haven of 'Happiness'
Pakistan’s Political Transition
Change of Guard at Pakistan’s ISI
Pakistan’s Baluchistan Problem
State Polls and National Echoes in India
Quran Copy Burning in Afghanistan and the US 'Exit' Strategy
Bangladesh and Paschim Banga: ‘Why This Kolaveri Di?’
China and the United States
Pakistan and the Not-So-Distant Thunder!
New Dynamic in China-India Dialogue
Uttar Pradesh Goes to Polls
Panic in Pakistan
Life at 60 in Japan-India Relationship
Imran Khan’s Political Rise
Of Diasporas and Displacements
China-India Strategic Economic Dialogue
India and China's 12th Five Year Plans
WTO Accommodates RTAs
Obama’s Asia-Pacific Doctrine: India’s Options
India-Pakistan Detente: Its Significance is More Than for Restoring Bilateral Relations
India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership: Beyond 2014?
The Turbulent South-China Sea Waters
The Crisis in United States-Pakistan Relations: An Alliance Unstuck?
The Haqqanis as the Pivot in the Deteriorating US-Pakistan Relations
Working America is Good for Asia
Afghanistan in Transition: Will ‘Bonn II’ be a Game Changer?
South Asia’s Diminishing Prospects
China's 'Look West' Policy
China and its Aircraft Carrier
Iran, US and the Afghan Conundrum
Suicides in India
United States' Economic Problems and their Ripple Effects
DMIC: Addressing India's Infrastructure Woes?
Pakistan’s Deteriorating Economic Situation
India in Africa: Summits and Beyond
The Great American Debate: Is the Drawdown of Forces in Afghanistan a Realistic Option?
China-Pakistan Relations: Evolution of an ‘All-Weather Friendship’
Power-Play of Peers in the Pacific
Anguish in Abbottabad, Pains of Pakistan and American Anger
India, Libya and the Principle of Non-Intervention
Political Economy of CSR
Foundations of Bangladesh's Foreign Policy Interactions
India's Pakistan Talks
Is Bangladesh Economy on the Wrong Foot?
Themes from India's Big Power Diplomacy
Visit of Prime Minister of Japan to India: Economic Synergies
A Curse From God?
Explaining Realignment
Disorder in the Global Economic Order
Bangladeshi Courts: Reaffirmation of Democratic and Secular Norms
Inflation, Growth and the 3D
A New Priority in India's Look East Policy
Mining in India
The RBI Discussion Paper on Entry of New Banks in the Private Sector: A Comment
The Recovery, Double-dip or Depression
President Zardari in China
The 2010 Commonwealth Games
The Afghan Peace Jirga
Maoism in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Future
The Maoist Movement in Sri Lanka
The Rise and Fall of the Maoist Movement in Pakistan
Media and Maoism
Socio-Economic Roots of Maoism post-1980
Management of Fiscal Stress
Karzai's Balancing Act: Bringing China In?
G P Koirala: Nepal's Democracy Icon
India's 'Look East' Policy: Reflecting the Future
China and India: Is Policymaking by the Two Asian Giants Merging?
‘Seeing it Comin’: The Post-Parliamentary Scenario in Sri Lanka
An Analysis of India’s Thirteenth Finance Commission Report
India and Pakistan: Breaking the Ice
South Asian Developments: Moving Towards a Détente or Sowing the Seeds of Discord?
Re-organising Indian States
India-Pakistan Relations Post-Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
The Economics and Politics of China's Exchange Rate Adjustment
The Copenhagen Climate Accord: Half May be Better than Full
Towards a World Without Nuclear Arms
Sri Lanka's Post-Conflict Transition
Looking Beyond Current Account Imbalances
Remittances as a Source of External Financing in South Asia
Myanmar: Effecting Positive Changes
Understanding Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Emerging Asia
The Rise of China: How it Will Impact the World
India's Foreign Direct Investment Flows: Trying to Make Sense of the Numbers
India's Nuclear Navy: Catching Up With China
How Flexible Have Asian Exchange Rate Regimes Become in the Post-Crisis Era?
Asia and the Global Financial Crisis
Does the type of Private Capital Flow matter for Financial Stability in Emerging Economies?
Pakistan: Making the Budget in Difficult Times
Presidential Elections in Afghanistan
Tackling Battlefield Asymmetries: Changing Tactics in Emerging Insurgencies
Indian Elections 2009
Three Elections and Two State Actions - Has South Asia Finally Turned the Corner?
Manmohan Singh-II: The Foreign Policy Challenges
Post-Election India: How the Neighbours View the Elephant
Nepal in Crisis
The Sorrows of Swat and the Mayhem in the Malakand: What Now?
The Politics of International Aid and New Asian Donors
Indian Elections 2009: The Prime-ministerial Candidates
Indian Elections 2009: What the Forecasts Say
The Malaise in Myanmar
The Sri Lankan Situation and the Principle of the 'Responsibility to Protect'
Indian Elections 2009: Where are Economic Reforms Headed?
The New Bangladesh Government: The Road Ahead
Pakistan: A Year after the Democratic Elections
Indian General Election 2009: Geographical Influence of Regional Parties and Electoral Outlook
Indian General Election 2009: The Women to Watch
Another Upheaval Averted but Pakistan Remains on the Brink
Indian Elections 2009: Foreign Policy Will Hardly Matter
Indian General Elections 2009
Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Western Indian Ocean
Indian Elections 2009: The Economic Backdrop
Indian Elections 2009: Why the 'Y' Factor Matters
The Growing Influence of Business and Media on Indian Foreign Policy
Indian General Elections 2009
The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
President Barack Obama, the United States and the Sino-Indian Balance
Win the War and Lose the Peace: Sri Lanka's 'War on Terror'
Indian Bureaucracy - Dismantling the Steel Frame
An Overview of the November-December 2008 Provincial Elections in India
Pakistan's Economic Crisis and the IMF Bailout Package
Some Approaches to Pricing Controls for Patented Drugs in India
Locking in Private Investment in Indian Agriculture
For Illiberal Finance: Building Dams, Constructing Conduits
India - United States Relations under the Obama Administration
Inter-Regionalism and its Possibilities
Bangladesh-China-Northeast India: Opportunities and Anxieties
The Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence: A Profile
India's Employment Exchanges - Should They be Revamped or Scrapped altogether?
The First Budget by the New Coalition Government in Pakistan: Economic Situation and Policy Directions
India's Nuclear Dilemma: To Drop the Deal or to Drop the Left
Higher Education in India - Ducking the Answers
Of Agflation and Agriculture: Time to Fix the Structural Problems
Development Trends in Selected Indian States - Issues of Governance and Management
India: Towards a Knowledge Superpower?
The Pakistan Federal Cabinet: More of the Same or Something New?
South Asia's Inflation Challenges
The Legacy of Gandhi: A 21st Century Perspective
Pakistan: The Road Ahead
Problems on the China Front: Can India be the Next Manufacturing Hub?
Election Prospects in Pakistan
Urban Policy Initiatives in the European Union, Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo Cooperation and ASEAN
Reflections on Monetary Policy
Regional Integration in South Asia: The Era of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement
Nepal's Peace Process: Prospects and Hurdles
Bhutanese and Tibetan Refugees in Nepal - Implications for Regional Security
The Visit of Chinese President, Hu Jintao, to India (20-23 November 2006)
The Re-Emergence of the Baluch Movement in Pakistan
Significance of President George W. Bush's Visit to India
Trade-off between Government Deficit and Expenditure on Social Infrastructure
Informational Development in Rural Areas
India's Energy Policy: Requirements, Supply and Challenges
East Asia Summit - An Appraisal
India's Next Economic Wave: Animation and Interactive Industry
Significance of Bihar Elections Results on India's Power Play
Economic Impact of Terrorism on the Southeast Asian Region
Examining the Business Landscape in India
India-Singapore CECA: A Step Towards Asian Integration?
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's Visit to the United States, 18 -20 July 2005
Pakistan's
Trade Policy Making in India
Visit by President Pervez Musharraf to India, 16 -18 April 2005
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's Visit To India, 9 - 12 April 2005
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