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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an international organization comprised of the eight countries in South Asia. This work aims examine the institutional structure, objectives and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as South Asia's leading regional institution. Drawing on original research it offers a fresh and accessible account of SAARC, arguing that South Asia forms a unique regional security complex that enables certain forms of regional cooperation and bars cooperation on other issue areas.The text provides a comprehensive introduction to the SAARC, describ

"This work aims to examine the institutional structure, objectives, and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as South Asia's leading regional institution"--

Reading the results of Lavariega-Monforti and Michelson's study of Latinas and Latinos in
the profession in the January issue ("Diagnosing the Leaky Pipeline: Continuing Barriers to
the Retention of Latinas and Latinos in Political Science") made for depressing reading.
Sadly, their observations are deadly accurate on the experiences of endemic institutional
racism that Latino and Latina political scientists face in American academic institutions.
This culture of endemic racism was vibrant in graduate school while I was getting my Ph.D.
and appears to have changed little since then. For that reason I am very pessimistic that
this situation will change in my generation and, frankly, the APSA has been very slow to act
on this problem. In my personal experience, in British universities I have been evaluated on
my merits, rather than on my ethnic background. I would urge other Latino and Latina
political scientists to consider using their skills in the UK and elsewhere.

The relationship between growing trade interdependence and the reduction of militarised inter-state conflict is one of the central theoretical tenets in neo-liberal institutionalism. This tenet, under various theoretical guises, is evaluated critically in this article. Using two illustrative examples, it is argued here that under certain specific conditions, trade interdependence is unlikely to occur and therefore the expected palliative effect of trade on militarised inter-state conflict cannot take place. Adapted from the source document.