It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United
States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced" …

India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The
Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for …

Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory
variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries …

Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay on December 8, 1989, members of the Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front kidnapped Dr. Rubiya Sayeed, the daughter of the Indian …

Ian Talbot in the wake of Gandhi's rise to power, however, that nationalist struggle was
transformed from an elite to a mass undertaking. Non-violent struggle exposed the Raj's …

Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of
observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countries. Although this …

'Who is stealing electricity'at Tis Hazari?—the principal magistrate's court for the city of Delhi.
The mystery, it turned out, had a simple solution. It implicated a large proportion of the 1500 …

South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India's complex democratic
political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this …

The incipient nuclearization of South Asia appears to have reproduced a variant of Glenn
Snyder's “stability/instability paradox” in the region. The danger of escalation to the nuclear …

Over the past 15 years, India has experienced separatist challenges from a variety of ethnic
and religious minorities-Sikhs in Punjab, Muslims in Kashmir and various tribal groups in …