Strategic Analysis

An Analysis of the Post-370 Revocation Trends in Kashmir: Issues and Concerns

This article is an exploratory study of social, political, economic, governance, and militancy-related trends in the Kashmir region after the abrogation of Article 370 (5 August 2019), i.e., Jammu and...

Abhinav Pandya |
September 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

(Re-) Narrating the Evolution of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: China’s Diplomacy Behind the Scenes

The launch of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) opened a fresh chapter in international politics in the Mekong region, by marking China’s official entry into the continental Southeast Asian arena. However,...

Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt , Poowin Bunyavejchewin |
September 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

Challenges to the Development of the Northeast through the Act East Policy

It is argued that the way to bring about development in the Northeast is by economically integrating the region with the vibrant markets of Southeast Asia and East Asia through...

Pushpita Das |
September 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

Sufi-Barelvis, Blasphemy and Radicalization: A Critical Analysis

There is a trend of upsurge in radicalisation of Sufi-Barelvis and violence resorted to by them, particularly in Pakistan, based on their uncompromising stance on the issue of blasphemy. Apart...

Neoliberalism in Asia: Under the Lens of Land Acquisition for Development in India and China

Through the lens of land acquisition by the State for development in India and China, an extensively and compulsorily strong State intervention has been witnessed. It pushes forward asymmetric neoliberal...

Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP): Thailand’s Emic Approach to Governance and Development as Evidence of an Asian Value-Oriented Inclusive Leadership Management Philosophy

Thailand has been at the core of the Asian Values debate since the 1992 World Conference on Human Rights. Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) is a concept developed by the late...

Otto Federico von Feigenblatt , Malcolm Cooper , Phillip Pardo |
July 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

Asianism – The Indian Sub-Text

Going by the economic growth patterns of China, India, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN countries with corresponding decline in the Western economic heft, it was often claimed that the 21st...

Sanpo-Yoshi and Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan

Discussion on Asia and Asian values is conspicuously absent from existing research in global capitalist society. In order to foster critical debates on ‘Asianism Retold’, we explore how Asian traditional...

Yoshiki Shinohara , Rebecca Chunghee Kim |
July 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

Becoming Asian: Asianness as the Counter-Power Among Japanese Migrants

The complexity of connectivity is reflected in the migrant’s socialization process. Whilst the socialization process in transnational spaces often leads to further ethnic divisiveness, Japanese migrants who had opportunities to...

Asianism as Many Altogether: Cosmopolitanism and the Asian Political Imaginary

In this article, I seek to understand the pre-European diversity of Asia as a recoverable ideal for a new Asianism, one that takes cosmopolitanism, plurality, and the concrete presence of...

All Roads Lead to North: Nepal’s Turn to China

Amish Raj Mulmi’s All Roads Lead to North vividly and eloquently captures the growing Chinese inroads into Nepal. Growing Chinese influence is visible not just in the northern-most border villages...

Cyber Technological Paradigms and Threat Landscape in India

In a discipline struggling to define even fundamental concepts like cyberspace and cyber threats, Ramnath Reghunadhan’s Cyber Technological Paradigms and Threat Landscape in India is a remarkable work to make...

China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play

China and South Asia is a collection of essays on Chinese foreign policy in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region. It covers China’s diplomatic, political, economic, social, and cultural...

Salafism and Political Order in Africa

In recent decades, Africa has emerged as one of the epicentres of jihadi terrorist groups. Scholars, analysts and policymakers have sought to unravel the factors underlying the presence, growth and...

Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute

Maroof Raza’s new book Contested Lands: India, China, and the Boundary Dispute documents the evolution of India’s boundary with China, an issue that predates independence and annexation of Tibet. The...

Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties

The book Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties by Ranjit Rae, a former Indian Ambassador to Nepal (September 2013 to February 2017), is timely, given that bilateral relations have been marred...

Securing India in the Cyber Era: Sameer Patil, Routledge, New Delhi and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai, 2022, 82 pp., £16.99 (E-Book), ISBN 9781003152910

Cyberspace has become the most prominent arena for geopolitical contestation. As conflicts move to another dimension, countries are manipulating cyberspace to exploit vulnerabilities of adversaries to conduct espionage, data theft...

The Fractured Himalaya: India, Tibet, China, 1949-1962: Nirupama Rao, The Fractured Himalaya: India, Tibet, China, 1949-1962, Viking (Penguin), Gurugram, 2021, 609 pp., Price: INR 999.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780670088294

The Fractured Himalaya covers India-China relations during the initial 13-year period (1949–1962) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The author, Nirupama Rao, a former member of the Indian Foreign...

Assessing the China Factor in the India–Australia Strategic Partnership after COVID-19

The article argues that India and Australia have a significant role to play amidst China’s expanding maritime footprint in the Indian Ocean and growing influence in the South China Sea....

GCC at Crossroads: Challenges Amidst Unrest in the Arab World

The Arab unrest had a severe impact on the GCC, as it uncovered the existing internal fissures and limitations of the organization. Despite their success in integrating themselves on vital...