Colin Geraghty, born in Boston (USA), lives in France, and follows international security issues, especially South Asian affairs. Not international enough for you? He holds a Master’s in International Relations from a school in Paris (where he is completing his thesis), dual US-French citizenship, and brings a combination of European and American perspectives to the table.
Colin's Blog
South Asia-ish
In writing this blog, I don’t intend to engage in Monday-morning quarterbacking, nor to second-guess every initiative, but rather to try to go beyond the headlines to make sense of current events in the area by placing them in a regional perspective. Basically my goal is to cover as best I can the trends and dynamics shaping the region, which often get lost in the daily mayhem. Why “South Asia-ish?” Because its very definition is currently up for debate (has it expanded from South Asia to Indo-AfPak, for instance, or been dislocated with the uprooting of India from the South Asian confines?), and what happens in South Asia doesn’t stay in South Asia. (Plus, the “-ish” is a very neat device that allows me from time to time to basically discuss what I want).
By attempting to understand what lies behind the day-to-day issues, this blog hopes to help decipher this troubled area which presents more security challenges than perhaps any other (terrorism, domestic instability, poverty, ballistic missiles race, clashing great power aspirations, border disputes, drug trafficking, water scarcity, nuclear proliferation but to name a few). I guess another way to define my main topics would be by saying that this blog will try to cover various issues related to Chinese, American, Indian or Pakistani foreign policy, mainly within the area ranging from Afghanistan to China (which really narrows it down).
Having said all these grandiloquent things, I’d just like to add that I hope you enjoy this blog; please don’t hesitate to leave comments ;-)
