South Asia

Pakistani Rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officers lower their national flags during parade on the Pakistan's 72nd Independence Day, at the Pakistan-India joint check-post at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan August 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza - RC14044E1270

Order from Chaos

Stephen P. Cohen’s disciplinary contribution to political science

Sunil Dasgupta

Monday, November 4, 2019

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Order from Chaos

Remembering Steve Cohen — Scholar and mentor

Dhruva Jaishankar

Friday, November 1, 2019

Commuters stand still at a crowded railway station to pay homage during a two-minute long remembrance for bomb blast victims in Mumbai July 18, 2006. Millions of people in Mumbai stopped all conversation, traffic came to a halt and cinemas interrupted films on Tuesday as the Indian city observed a short silence in memory of 182 people killed in last week's bombings. - PBEAHUNKPEU

Order from Chaos

Brookings colleagues past and present remember Stephen P. Cohen

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Dinshaw Mistry, and Dhruva Jaishankar

Friday, November 1, 2019

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Reports

Report

Barriers to STEM education for rural girls

Nasrin Siddiqa

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia’s hold on Pakistan

Madiha Afzal

May 2019

Sri Lanka's newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Maithripala Sirisena talk during a rally near the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte - RC1F3E67FE20

South Asia

Sri Lanka’s presidential elections: Progress, regression, or paralysis?

Jeffrey Feltman

April 2019

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Islamic charity organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa, speaks to supporters during a gathering in Rawalpindi

Pakistan

Beyond the Trumpian bluster: Is there a longer game on Pakistan?

Joshua T. White

February 2018

Early Childhood Education

SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, and Sophie Gardiner

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Blog Posts

Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid - HP1EF9R1627O7

Order from Chaos

Imran Khan’s incomplete narrative on the Taliban

Madiha Afzal

Monday, October 14, 2019

Yasmin, a Rohingya girl who was expelled from Leda High School for being a Rohingya, helps her younger sister to study in Leda camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain - RC14D96237D0

Education Plus Development

Beyond labs and numbers: STEM’s role in girls’ skills development in Bangladesh

Nasrin Siddiqa

Friday, October 11, 2019

A woman makes traditional sweets called Lakhamari inside a sweet factory before selling it to the market for the Tihar festival, also called Diwali, in Kathmandu, Nepal November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar - RC161A1F1490

Education Plus Development

Investing in TVET would increase female labor force participation in Nepal

Anil Paudel

Thursday, October 10, 2019

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William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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A woman leaves after casting her vote at a polling station during the first phase of general election in Majuli, a large river island in the Brahmaputra river, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, India April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC11642136E0

Podcast Episode

A primer on India’s general elections

Tanvi Madan, Sadanand Dhume, Dhruva Jaishankar, and Milan Vaishnav

Friday, April 12, 2019

India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol along the fenced border with Pakistan in Ranbir Singh Pura sector near Jammu February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta - RC1D32EEA1F0

Podcast Episode

The India-Pakistan crisis

Tanvi Madan and Joshua T. White

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool - RC128E965F40

Order from Chaos

Experts discuss Pakistan’s Imran Khan’s first 100 days in office

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Monday, December 10, 2018

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