Publication

China’s Elite Politics under Xi Jinping: Governance and Global Security Order

The Communist Party of China (CPC), under the leadership of Xi Jinping, has been strengthening its ideological framework to increase its capacity for governance. This is crucial to the party system, as it increasingly believes it needs to respond to changes in the global order. Through ideological correction, in the form of Xi Jinping Thought, the party leadership believes it can better navigate a world in transition and emerge victorious. In other words, as the leadership theorises about the global order, elite politics under Xi Jinping is transforming. Xi is strengthening governance within both the party and state to respond to the global security order. This impacts elite politics as it navigates the changes within the Chinese political system.

Northeast India: Developmental Initiatives and Structural Constraints

This monograph examines the development trajectory of Northeast India since Independence, arguing that the region's economic stagnation stems from deep structural and historical constraints rather than inadequate policy support or public expenditure. It traces how colonial extraction, Partition-induced isolation, and postcolonial planning fostered dependence on Union government transfers through mechanisms such as Article 275(1), Special Category Status, and Finance Commission grants. Adopting a political economy perspective, it analyses how restrictive land systems, labour market limitations, scarce capital, weak entrepreneurship, and limited cross-border cooperation have hindered diversification and industrialisation.