ISAS Special Reports

On 3rd March 2017 ISAS held its 11th International Conference on South Asia. Bringing together twenty-one speakers from eleven countries on four panels, the participants deliberated on a number of themes related to the overarching topic of, Contemporary South Asia: regional dynamics and changing global politics. The guest of honour for the conference was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan who spoke on the past, present and future of South Asia and South East Asia in terms of linkages between the two regions and the potential for furthering collaboration. Researchers from the Institute of South Asian Studies introduced the state of play in terms of three prisms: multilateralism, trade and the Indian Ocean