Prof. Najam Speaks at Asia Society on India-Pakistan Relations

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations, Geography and the Environment at Boston University, was one of two speakers at a panel discussion on “India and Pakistan: Back from the Brink?” organized by the Asia Society in New York. The panel included C. Raja Mohan, the Kissinger Chair at the US Library of Congress, and was moderated by Robert Templer, Director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group. Held on Feb. 4 – right as the two countries announced their intentions to resume talks – the timely panel discussion was attended by over 100 people. (Read Asia Society’s report of event).

Prof. Najam’s talk was partly based on a recent paper on the six-decade old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan written by Prof. Najam and Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf, published in Third World Quarterly.

A full video (1 hr 28 min) of the event can be seen here (Prof. Najam’s presentation starts at around minute 14). A short clip from the discussion following the event can be viewed below: