The makes two missile tests in the last week where the Government of Indian has been vague about the name of the missile undergoing testing, which has not been the typical Indian practice.

Does any academic I know have experience conducting surveys in Europe that don't run afoul of EU’s GDPR data privacy rules? Is there some convenient how-to guide somewhere?

Cool opportunity here for young and aspiring North Korea analysts to work with 38 North 38north.org/call-for-appli…

I hope some enterprising scholar uses the 25th anniversary of the Perestroika movement in political science to take stock next year. (I guess my vague sense is the Perestroikans fought valiantly, seized some pockets, and lost overall.)

'With President Mohamed Muizzu winning a super majority in the parliamentary elections Sunday, India needs to brace itself for major competition with China in the Indian Ocean Region,' writes Nayanima Basu . news.abplive.com/india-at-2047/…

'Every new species that harbors the [avian influenza] virus creates opportunities for H5N1 to continue to evolve, and to jump into people.' nytimes.com/2024/04/22/hea…

“A suicide bomber targeted a van carrying Japanese nationals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, police said. The Japanese nationals escaped unharmed but officials later said one bystander was killed.” apnews.com/article/pakist…

This chart shows defense outlays per person, so it is normalized for the size of the force. You can see it bounces around a bit at times of war, but the long-term trend is exponential. No takeaways yet, still thinking about what to do with this.

I was in Orlando last week without a rental car and as a pedestrian you could tell the cars had zero expectation a dismounted human might be near the road. Total pedestrian blindness.

Asia’s sub-regions were never hermetically sealed. We should avoid analyzing historical Asian orders as if they somehow existed in the “containers” created by the contemporary division of Asia into specific subregions. (3/n)

Excited to share that my book, Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan, is now available in Pakistan through Folio Books (foliobooks.pk/product/under-…). Thankful to Mohammad Waseem, Farhan Siddiqi, and Zoha Waseem for their endorsements!

I don’t follow this issue area closely. What is the legal mechanism for this? Or is he saying Congress will create the mechanism?

I know there are many costs associated with the loss of the monoculture, but the rise of podcasting has meant I have more opportunities to hear from world-class experts talking about their areas of expertise than basically any human has in history--all while I'm doing my dishes.

'The total cost of this air defense operation alone will probably come to over $1.5 billion when all the expended interceptors, jet fuel, and missiles are tallied, an enormous sum equal to nearly 10 percent of Taiwan’s annual defense budget' mwi.westpoint.edu/irans-neutrali…

Just got a recaptcha asking me to find motorcycles and I think I had an ontological crisis trying to figure out if a picture of a billboard with a picture of a motorcycle was in fact a motorcycle

Lots of ways that the Abbottabad raid could have gone very badly. Here Mike Vickers is discussing US contingency plans for Pakistan Air Force interference with the post-mission exfiltration.

What a time to be alive! 'House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor...This Floor Action Response Team (“FART”) aims to guard against a voice vote or unanimous consent vote...'

Frequently in the last two decades there have been questions as to whether a shared Punjabiyat--Punjabi-ness--could help overcome some of the enmity that has long characterized the India-Pakistan relationship. Still some spark there.