Essay

• Conflicts in Sunni Political Islam and Their Implications
  Mohammed Nuruzzaman

Articles

• State-Building in the Steppe: Challenges to Kazakhstan’s Modernizing Aspirations
  Charles J. Sullivan
• India’s Stance and Renewed Commitment to UN Peacekeeping
  Montgomery Blah
• Impact of Political Economy on Economic Strategy Making in India (1947–1991)
  Akshay Joshi
• Japan’s Proactive Pacifism: Investing in Multilateralization and Omnidirectional Hedging
  Stephen R. Nagy
• China’s Naval Base(s) in the Indian Ocean—Signs of a Maritime Grand Strategy?
  Jayanna Krupakar

• India’s look east to act east policy: tracking the opportunities and challenges in the Indo-Pacific
  Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak

Book Review

• India’s war: the making of modern south Asia (1939–1945)
  Atul K. Thakur
• India–China relations: politics of resources, identity and authority in a multipolar world order
  Chietigj Bajpaee
• Neoclassical realist theory of international politics
  Vikash Chandra