Topic: Border Security

Investigating Subcontinental Crises

In this article for Pakistan Politico, Sameer Lalwani and Hannah Haegeland review their edited volume, Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories, which is freely available at crises.stimson.org. Nearly two decades after the…

Michael Krepon Op-Ed on Trump’s Approach to Kashmir

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A Political Choice: What Sparks an India-Pakistan Crisis?

This piece for The Hindu is based on a full chapter study by the authors in Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories freely available at: www.InvestigatingCrises.org. The “surgical operation” earlier this month killing the mastermind…

Johanna Mendelson Forman’s Op-Ed in The Hill on the Consequences of Trump’s Travel Ban

Today’s revision of a draconian executive order that bans travelers from six majority-Muslim countries is an attempt to sanitize an earlier attempt to close our doors to immigrants and turn off the lamp…

Deploy Law Enforcement Personnel to Key Overseas Transit Points to Interdict Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters

Editor’s note: This analysis is part of 2017 Presidential Inbox — an ongoing Stimson Center series examining the major global challenges and opportunities the Trump administration faces during its first 100 days in…

Bring America’s Supply Chains into the Digital Age

Editor’s note: This analysis is part of 2017 Presidential Inbox — an ongoing Stimson Center series examining the major global challenges and opportunities the Trump administration faces during its first 100 days in…

It’s Time For The UN Security Council To Lead On Border Management

By Brian Goebel and Brian Finlay: From the refugee crisis in the Middle East and North Africa, to the recruitment of Westerners and others to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria, around the…

Op-ed by Julie Thompson in The National Interest on deteriorating India-Pakistan relations

The ceasefire agreement reached between India and Pakistan in November 2003 is now unrecognizable, with firing growing steadily since late 2012. Monday’s attack on a police station in the Punjabi town of Gurdaspur,…

Alan Romberg quoted in CRNTT Hong Kong on the Taiwan issue (Chinese)

中評社華盛頓7月23日電（記者 余東暉）雖然洪秀柱的異軍突起讓藍營感到振奮，但美國和台灣學界在觀察明年台灣選情時依然看好蔡英文，並對明年選後的兩岸關係走勢無不感到擔憂。這從上周在”布魯金斯學會”舉辦的”兩岸關係研討會”上一覽無餘。 -snip- 台海問題專家容安瀾（Alan Romberg）認為，台灣不會正式宣布獨立，因為台灣人民已經在陳水扁政府下嘗到苦頭，但如果”急獨”狀況真的發生，北京如果沒別的辦法促其轉變的話，就有可能在某種壓力下主動進行扭轉行動。當然北京不會得出結論說對台動武符合其利益，台北也不會有理由為邁向獨立承擔後果。北京有可能在國際空間、經濟上採取一些封殺的做法，並做好準備對台長期冷淡下去。 To read the full article click here. 

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Op-ed by Saira Bano in The Diplomat on India’s policy towards Pakistan

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has yet to craft a coherent policy on Pakistan. He was outspoken in criticizing the government of his predecessor Manmohan Singh for being soft on Pakistan, but tempered…

Yun Sun quoted in Eurasia Review on China’s response to the Kokang Conflict in Myanmar

On 9 February 2015 the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) led by Peng Jiasheng (also known as Phone Kyar Shin or Pheung Kya-shin) suddenly returned to Laukkai, the Kokang capital with an…

Alan Romberg quoted in IDN News on cross-Strait relations (Chinese)

相對於民進黨的蔡英文，似乎傾美反中；不過兩個女人也有雷同情形，都是留美碩士，蔡英文之後還留英國，取得博士學位。 美國華府智庫史汀森研究中心（Stimson Center）資深學者容安瀾（Alan Romberg）說，「北京將會透過大企業等各種管道來闡述其立場，表明要是台灣人民讓一個不接受過去8年兩岸發展基礎的政府執政，兩岸關係的發展將不會如現在一樣平順」。 To read the full article click here.

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