Strategic Analysis

Has the West Lost It? A Provocation

Kishore Mahbubani, Allen Lane, New Delhi, 2018, 105 pp., INR 499 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-241-31286-5

Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century

Andrew Yeo, Stanford University Press, Redwood, CA, 2019, US$ 70.00, (Hardcover) $58.99, ISBN-10: 1503608441

India in South Asia: Challenges and Management

Amit Ranjan (Ed.), Springer, Singapore, 2019, 289 + xxxiii pp., €103.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-981-13-2019-4

Politics and Government in China

Guoli Liu, ABC-CLIO, California, 2011, 160 + xxxi pp., US$ 35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-313-35730-5

Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958

Pang Yang Huei, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2019, 336 pp., US$55.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-988-8208-30-2

Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy

Ian Hall, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2019, 236 pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1529204605

Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications

Sujata Ashwarya, Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications, Routledge, London and New York, 2019, 312 pp., Rs.1,495 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-37503-4

India’s Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy

COVID-19: Projecting the National Security Dimensions of Pandemics

National security—in its traditional sense—is associated with the protection of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of a state, as well as its critical interests abroad. However, the lethal nature of pandemics is increasingly raising scientific awareness about their national security dimensions.

COVID-19: A Testing Time for UAE–India Relations? A Perspective from Abu Dhabi

Responses against COVID-19 have become one of the defining aspects of the modern-day state system that is testing the organic capacity of nations in particular and the international community in general. Even as most have put in place country-specific counter-COVID-19 measures, there is no denying the fact that the pandemic is an existential crisis that can only be dealt with through national efforts combined with substantial regional and international cooperation.