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Focusing on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan masks important political realities that may prevent the United States from achieving lasting peace and security as the 2014 deadline for withdrawal approaches.
India's aging government is starting to show signs of a gerontocracy, as officials get older while the population gets younger.
The Naxalite insurgency has continued to defy the state for longer than any other uprising in post-independence India.
U.S forces in Afghanistan have spent effort and prestige to prop up a government that is too often ineffectual at best and sometimes abusive toward its own citizens.
As President Obama begins his second term, it's up to New Delhi to take the already strong U.S.-Indian partnership to the next level.
The 2009 Indian general elections saw the United Progressive Alliance gain a remarkable increase of seats in the National Assembly, but its success was largely due to the fragmentation of the party system resulting from the regionalization of Indian politics.
China's rising military power has, paradoxically, been enabled by the very American global order that Beijing is now poised to challenge.
As in the Cold War, so in the current power play between the United States and China; the rest of Asia will simply not submit itself to the discipline of a bipolar framework. Asia will actively shape and be shaped by the emerging strategic dynamic between Washington and Beijing.
It’s easy to misinterpret India. These five trends shed light on the country’s domestic realities, underscoring India’s internal tensions between continuity and change.
The U.S.-Pakistani relationship is facing a number of tensions, but if the United States tires of negotiations with the Taliban, it may turn again to Islamabad to help keep Afghanistan intact.