Section archive

South Asia

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the subcontinent's defining tensions. Coverage spans nuclear brinkmanship, cross-border conflict, water rights disputes, the politics of religious nationalism and the widening gap between democratic promise and democratic practice.

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Books & Ideas

Before the Explosion

Valerie M. Hudson's 1991 edited volume captures what AI meant to IR scholars before generative AI arrived. The DiploPolis review reads it as a time capsule and asks what the field got right, what it missed — including humiliation as a political force — and why the gap still matters.