One of our main activities is organising and hosting Luncheon Briefings on pertinent topics of EU-Asia relations. Beginning with an informal lunch, the Briefings usually last for 1.5 hours, including questions.

Attendees include EIAS members and other interested parties.

Experts wishing to discuss a possible topic for a Luncheon Briefing are invited to contact EIAS Director Dr Willem van der Geest.

Kashmir: What prospects for a lasting settlement?
European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS)
Rue des Deux Eglises 35, B-1000 Brussels
(Metro: Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet)

EIAS Luncheon Briefing, 12 March 2004

The SAARC Summit in Islamabad in January and the promise of bilateral discussions between Pakistan and India in February have raised hopes for a peaceful solution in Kashmir. How real are the prospects for a lasting settlement?

This question will be examined by Dr Robert W. Bradnock, Senior Lecturer in Geography at King’s College, University of London, and widely published author of numerous books and articles on the political geography of South Asia.

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About Dr Robert W. Bradnock

Dr Bradnock is currently Senior Lecturer in Geography at King’s College, University of London.

Born in 1943 in Palwal, North India, Robert Bradnock took his degree in Geography at Cambridge, joined the staff of the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1968 as a Lecturer in Geography with special reference to South Asia, and moved to King’s College in 2001.

Dr. Bradnock is currently completing a book on the Political Geography of South Asia. His published work includes the books South Asia in a Globalising World, London, Pearson/DARG (edited with G. O. Williams); India's Foreign Policy since 1971, (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House,1990), and Political Geography; a study guide (The University of London),

He has also published papers on various aspects of geopolitics and development, including regional co-operation in South Asia, the geopolitics of the Kashmir dispute, and the geopolitics of environmental change in South Asia. The most recent, written with Stephen Brichieri-Colombi, was Geopolitics, water and development in South Asia: cooperative development in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, Geographical Journal March 2003.

His interests in South Asia have enabled him to travel frequently and extensively throughout the countries of the region. He has recently visited both Pakistan and India in connection with a study of South Asian security, Kashmir and the nuclear issue. He has lived several years in India and has held a British Council visiting lectureship in Bangladesh.

His current research focuses on the political geography of South Asia, with special reference to environmental change and the geopolitics of the South Asian countries. Dr Bradnock broadcasts regularly on the BBC, as well as on American and European radio and TV networks, covering South Asian current affairs. He lectures widely in Britain and continental Europe.

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Background information on Dr Bradnock (pdf)