Newsletter – NUS Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)
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    Features commentaries, events and key initiatives at ISAS

    Title: Issue No. 21A (April – September 2015)
    Abstract: Strategically located at the heart of a cluster of high-powered think tanks in Heng Mui Keng Terrace at the edge of the NUS campus, the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) is an autonomous research institute, with a mandate to study contemporary South Asia from a global perspective. With its thirty-five researchers and administrators, the ISAS presents a unique combination of functions including research and analysis of social, political, diplomatic and economic trends in South Asia and their global implications, communication of policy analysis to a very large, worldwide body of decision- and opinionmakers and stakeholders, comparative studies and policy analysis, organisation of major events and training of the next generation of talented Singaporeans. The ISAS draws on considerable inhouse expertise in the domains of trade and industry, foreign affairs, governance and civil society of South Asia with area specialisation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Maldives and well eyond the shores into the Bay of Bengal and parts of the Indian Ocean. For specific events, the ISAS draws on its global network, international organisations, universities and think tanks, based on partnership.
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