Electoral Politics in Asia

This volume examines the complex interplay of geopolitics, electoral politics, and representative governance across South, Southeast, West, and Central Asia through an intersectional lens. Analyzing electoral developments in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, it explores diverse political systems ranging from consolidated democracies to hybrid regimes and entrenched authoritarian states. With many of these countries having held national elections in 2024, the volume offers timely insights into how majoritarian, proportional and hybrid electoral systems mediate governance, legitimacy and citizen participation. It interrogates the role of elections in enabling democratic representation while exposing how identity politics, majoritarianism, and systemic exclusion continue to shape outcomes. Combining macro and micro perspectives, the volume provides grounded, comparative analyses of Asia’s political trajectories and will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, international relations, area studies, and electoral politics.

China in India’s Neighbourhood Shifting Regional Narratives

This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power politics. Through theoretical narratives and detailed case studies, it examines Chinese bilateral relationships in the Indian neighbourhood and looks at the extent and significance of Chinese influence through the lens of strategic, economic and…

Contiguity, Connectivity and Access

This volume examines themes like contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian foreign policy; the inter-connectedness of the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the importance of oceans to security and commerce and India’s role within the broader region; the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road and Indian alternatives and the

Corridors Of Engagement

Asia has re-emerged as a useful case study for exploring the complex relationship between pursuing economic development through trans-state linkages and promoting political agendas through securitisation. New routes and in the process new partners have been sought for creating opportunities for rethinking traditional ways of conceptualising partnerships. However, logistics is as much about institutional setups and the actual corridors through which it operates as the capacity of movement to create new assemblages of power, create identities but also shape the ‘microgeographies’ of everyday life along these corridors of engagement. Mobilities, flows and spaces therefore become significant in understanding the imperatives within which logistics functions as also the occasional resistance and sensitivities that it encounters. Corridors of Engagement engages with this interface of logistics and mobilities in various Asian spaces to underline the significance of these engagements in a wider global context.

Asia Matters

As part of China’s enhanced global stature, its growing presence across Asia is increasingly
becoming evident. South, Southeast and Central Asia have not escaped that trend and China’s
influence in India’s immediate neighbourhood has risen to a significant extent. This can be gauged
through policies adopted by Beijing towards countries like Afghanistan, Iran Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Central Asian Republics. These countries, barring
Bhutan, have all joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s policy in these countries
is visualized as part of its broader geopolitical goal of potential encirclement of India, a country
that has always assumed an influential position in the region and whose soft power and influence
in the neighbourhood has traditionally been considerably more significant than that of China. The
surging requirement for humanitarian assistance, in the wake of the global pandemic and the
concomitant isolationist stance of the United States and Europe, as well as the emergence of nongovernmental soft power in its ranks, has significantly abetted China in rewriting its narrative and
strengthening its hold in these countries

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CHINA IN INDIA’S NEIGHBOURHOOD

 Asia in Global Affairs publishes its second volume in collaboration with Netaji Institute of Asian Studies.

Asia in Global Affairs publishes its second volume in collaboration with Netaji Institute of Asian Studies. The volume containing the papers presented at the seminar has been published as an edited volume with ICWA as a partner organization.

The volume brings together historians, political analysts and political economists to emphasize the interconnectedness of the oceanic space through a detailed analysis of the Bay of Bengal as a space of strategic and economic significance, particularly for India, but also as a space for re-imagining a new regional community. It examines themes like contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian foreign policy; the interconnectedness of the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the importance of oceans to security and commerce and India’s role within the broader region; the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road and Indian alternatives and the possibilities of reconnecting disconnected spaces through re-imagining a Bay of Bengal Community. In this connection the volume takes particular note of the emerging regional cooperative order for the promotion of peace and development in the Bay of Bengal region (BIMSTEC).

Please find attached a brochure of the volume.

Focus Croup Discussion Strategic and Spatial Eealioments: Aukus and Cuad

Conceptualizing Mass Violence

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia.

Afganistan at crossroads

India’s Northwest: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Connectivity

Discussants

Professor Raghav Sharma, Director, Centre for Afghan StudiesJindal School of International AffairsOP Jindal Global University
Dr Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee, Research FellowIndian Council of World AffairsNew Delhi.

Dr Deepika Saraswat, Research FellowIndian Council of World AffairsNew Delhi &Senior Adjunct FellowAsia In Global AffairsKolkata

Thursday 3 June 2021 from 4pm

Coonectivity Across Asia

Asia in Global Affairs & West Bengal State University

Asia in Global Affairs & Department of History & Political Science WBSU Barasat Collaborative Workshop. Changing contours of India’s foreign policy in the 21st century.

National Experience and Development Strategies

AGA’s first international collaboration is with

International Legal Forum

«Law and Economics: National Experience and Development Strategies»

Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)

May 22 to 24, 2019.