Jessica Stern
This spring the U.S. State Department reported that South Asia has replaced the Middle East as the leading locus of terrorism in the world. Although much has been written about religious militants in the Middle East and Afghanistan, little is known in the West about those in Pakistan?perhaps because...
Richard English
This essay provides reviews of the following books: Daniel Byman, Al-Qaida, The Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) Patrick Cockburn, The Jihadis return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising (New York: Or Books, 2014) Jessic...
Šumit Ganguly
Abstract Contrary to the arguments of proliferation pessimists, this article contends that the overt nuclearization of South Asia has contributed to stability in the region. To that end this article carefully examines two recent crises in Indo-Pakistani relations and concludes that in the absence of...