As the world anticipates a potential World War 3, smaller-scale conflicts are raging all around the globe. Besides symmetric conflicts, nontraditional and asymmetric conflicts are increasingly shaping both economic and…

First published in 2000, “Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era” is based on the primary research carried out by the Center for Civilisational and Regional Studies…

The latest change of regime in Pakistan has followed the perennial tendency of a disturbing political transition. What remains novel about it is its underscoring of institutional and political contradictions…

The story of Sri Lanka is a classic example from a South Asian developing country where one family’s rule has rotten the system of governance. The myopic approach has resulted…