South Asia

Workers who collect coca leaves, known locally as "raspachines", carry bags with harvested leaves to be processed into coca paste, on a coca farm in Guayabero, Guaviare province, Colombia, May 23, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino/File Photo - RTX2N1WW

What Colombia can learn from Thailand on drug policy

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, May 4, 2017

“Strengthening India-Afghanistan Strategic Relations in an Uncertain World” Address by H.E. Shaida Abdali, Ambassador of Afghanistan to India

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM IST

New Delhi, India

Photo of the panel at a recent Brookings panel event on Asia.

Forecasting U.S.-Asia relations under Trump

Monday, April 10, 2017

Female students of American University of Afghanistan walk on the roof of a building during a security training and new orientation sessions at a American University in Kabul, Afghanistan March 27, 2017.REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail - RTX32XRE

A triumph in Afghanistan as the American University in Kabul reopens

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Ambassador Ronald Neumann

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L-R), Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chano-cha, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, U.S. President Barack Obama, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo and Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak stand together for a family photo before their U.S.-ASEAN meeting as a part of the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2ON65

As Xi and Trump meet, China’s neighbors will be watching

Jonathan Stromseth

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

People wave flags and celebrate at a national day rally during the country's 69th Independence Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez - RTX1O9SO

The Pakistan challenge

Bruce Riedel and Fred Dews

Friday, March 24, 2017

An aerial view of a flooded village on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2MUFV

Expecting the unexpected: Four potential shocks in the Middle East and South Asia in 2017

Adrienne Janetti and Maria Langan-Riekhof

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Soldiers from the Special Security Unit (SSU) hold Pakistan's national flag during a ceremony to celebrate the country's 70th Independence Day at the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi, Pakistan, August 14, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RTX2KOOP

The case for getting tough on Pakistan

Monday, February 6, 2017

A health worker (R) weighs a child under a government program in New Delhi, India, May 7, 2015. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes one year in office, his cuts in federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 billion people are coming in for sharp criticism, including from within his cabinet. To Match Insight INDIA-MODI/ Picture taken May 7, 2015. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee - RTX1DJLG

The real development failure would be not knowing regret

Thursday, February 2, 2017

A labourer moves sacks of onions to a truck bound for Afghanistan at a transit depot in Peshawar, Pakistan September 15, 2015. Pakistan and Afghanistan have shelved a raft of agreements that promised to more than triple cross-border trade, officials said, as economic ties seen as key to regional stability fall victim to rivalry and suspicion. Picture taken September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz - RTS1H6H

Course correcting learning in the provision of skills

Wednesday, January 11, 2017