Region | India and South Asia

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View our expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest developments in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

Re-energising the Australia-India Partnership

IAN HALL | Malcolm Turnbull took a substantial delegation of business and university leaders to India this week with the aim of re-energising a… Read More

The Australia­­–India–Japan trilateral: converging interests… and converging perceptions?

IAN HALL | Back in 1967, the Australian National University held a conference on the theme, India, Japan, Australia: Partners in Asia? It was… Read More

Nepal’s comprehensive peace agreement: human rights, compliance and impunity a decade on

RENÉE JEFFERY | In November 2006, the Government of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) designed to… Read More

Modi’s vision for India as a normative power

IAN HALL | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s energetic conduct of India’s foreign policy has attracted much public and academic attention. Yet his desire to… Read More

Narendra Modi and India’s normative power

IAN HALL | Periodically, India has sought to act as a ‘normative power’ in international affairs, advancing a normative agenda about how states and… Read More

Modi’s gamble: India’s demonetisation drive

YAN ISLAM | The Indian economy might experience a sharp growth slowdown next year. This has to be attributed to a dramatic decision, announced… Read More

Trump’s presidency and the Asia Pacific

DUNCAN MCDONNELL, STEPHEN MCCARTHY, LEONG LIEW, DIEGO FOSSATI, HUI FENG, YI WANG, KAI HE, HUIYUN FENG, DAVID SCHAK, ANDREW O’NEIL, MICHAEL HEAZLE,… Read More

Re-hyphenating the Indo-Pacific

IAN HALL | In the wonderfully-titled ‘From Hollywood to Bollywood’, Andrew Phillips questions the utility of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept. He thinks it’s less than… Read More

Fiscal consolidation: Does it work?

YAN ISLAM | Presentation given by Yan Islam (Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute and former Chief, Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch, ILO, Geneva) to the… Read More

India’s unavoidable entanglements in the South China Sea

IAN HALL | This article is a summary of the Mabini Dialogue talk given by Professor Ian Hall at the Foreign Service Institute… Read More