Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief, and happy New Year. There will be many questions about South Asia and the world this year: how the region adjusts to a second ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visits India in his first overseas trip as leader, a top Taliban leader is ...
Though experts have pointed out the pervasiveness of violence in U.S. political history, this particular election—held in the shadow of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and marked by multiple assassination ...
The economy was undoubtedly the central issue in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sept. 21—unlike in past votes, when ethnic divides between the Sinhala Buddhist majority and the Tamil minority ...
On Sept. 21, 17 million Sri Lankans will cast their vote to select the country’s next president. This is the first popular election since the country defaulted on its sovereign ...