2010 South Asia: Conflict, Culture Complexity, and Change

South Asia: Conflict, Culture Complexity, and Change

South Asia is one of the most dauntingly complex regions of the world.

All of the South Asian states – Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives – are contending with momentous changes, internally, regionally and globally. The region is home to three of the world’s ten most populated countries, two of the world’s nine nuclear weapons states, and the world’s most corrupt country for five of the last eight years.  Political instability, economic instability, poverty, natural disasters, and religious, ethnic and cultural clashes are abundant. It is at once one of the world's most dangerous and most promising of areas.

See the links below for an in-depth view of the year.