Research Article

• India’s Defence Diplomacy as Soft Power Instrument Towards Southeast Asia

  G.V.C. Naidu

• Global Order in COVID-19 Contagion: A Literary and Philosophical Interpretation

  Swati Pal

• Ethnocratic Statecraft and Conflict: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

  Bhumitra Chakma

• Material and Ideational Factors Behind Conceptualisation of the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor

  Priyanshi Agrawal

• Minilateralism for Reinforcing ASEAN Centrality?: The Case of Intra-Regional Mechanisms in the Mekong Region

  Ha Hai Hoang

Commentary

• Soft Power Through Education: Realist Regional Dynamics in Asia

  Char Leung

• Education as ‘Soft Power’: Mapping the Role of Education in Strengthening India’s Ties with Afghanistan

  Hilal Ramzan

  Javid Ahmad Ahanger

Strategic Essay

• Liberal International Order: Bursting at the Seams

  Adil Rasheed

Review Essay

• Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and his Biographers

  Mohammad Asif Najar

  Yasir Hamid Bhat

Book Review

• Aid, Politics and the War of Narratives in the US–Pakistan Relations: A Case Study of Kerry Lugar Berman Act

  Nazir Ahmad Mir

• Evolution of India’s Polar Policies

  Rudrani Garg

• Indo-Soviet Relations

  Girilal Jain

From the Archives

• Ayub’s Foreign Policy – From Alliance to Equidistance

  Mohammed Ayoob