Publications

South Asia Security Monitor: No. 362

March 15, 2015

Sri Lanka suspends Chinese port project;

Indian, Pak Foreign Ministers meet;

Pakistan tests ballistic missile;

Bomb misses Bangladesh PM by minutes;

Stalling Rafale deal heightens prospects of PAK-FA  

Relax about Republicans’ letter to Iran

March 10, 2015 James S. Robbins USA Today

A firestorm erupted Tuesday over the letter by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. and 46 other Senators to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, laying out their view of the ongoing negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program. Critics of the letter started throwing around words like unprecedented, illegal, even treasonous.

Morocco’s Counterterrorism Moment

March 10, 2015 Ilan I. Berman Forbes.com

The summit on countering violent extremism convened by the Obama administration last month was a lavish affair, full of pomp and circumstance and awash in foreign dignitaries. But substantive strategies for combatting radical ideologies, particularly those of Islamist groups, were far less in evidence.