ISAS organised a roundtable discussion by H.E. General (R) Jehangir Karamat, Former Chief of Staff, Pakistan Army, and Former Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States on "Changing South Asian Security Landscape: Implications for the Region and the World", Tuesday, 3 June 2008.

ISAS organised a seminar on "Challenges of Political Development in Post-Taliban Afghanistan" by Professor William Maley, Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University, 2 June 2008.

ISAS is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tan Tai Yong as its Director. The appointment takes effect from 1 June 2008. Professor Tan has been an integral part of ISAS since its inception. He was Acting Director from July 2004 to July 2006 and from April 2007 to May 2008. Professor Tan, a historian, is concurrently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS.

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ISAS, the South Asian Studies Programme, NUS, and Indiana University, Bloomington, jointly organised a conference on "The Indian State: 60 Years On" on 19-20 May 2008. The conference examined the development of India in the past six decades, focusing on areas of economic growth, modernity, political change an international relations and how these elements have transformed the socio-economic and political landscapes in India. Dr Ramachandra Guha, Historian, Bangalore, India, delivered the keynote address for the conference.