Description: India’s Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy presents India’s engagement with its extended eastern neighbours from ancient times to the present. It…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Description: While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their…
Abstract: Ever since the Indo-Pacific re-emerged as a viable strategic concept in 2017 and Asia’s four democratic major powers — the United States, Japan, Australia…
Abstract: The growing pluralization of Chinese society has made China’s foreign policy decision-making more complicated. As a result, traditional state-centric approaches to analysing China’s foreign…
Abstract: Incoherent, or even nonexistent, is the common criticism leveled at India’s public opinion. Given this criticism, scholars of Indian foreign policy often do not…
Abstract: Non-alignment, the lodestar of India’s foreign policy decision-making, has gradually morphed into multi-alignment. Irrespective of the change in nomenclature, the point then and now…
Abstract: The economic importance of oceans to nations is well known. Nearly 80 percent of the world trade by volume is carried out through ships…
Abstract: A nation’s strength to thwart diverse threats to its interests and adequately address the varied transformational geo-political challenges in today’s highly troubled world rests…
Abstract: The question that arises is – can the countries of North East Asia cooperate and bring stability in the region? For any meaningful cooperation…
Abstract: China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ (OBOR) initiative has been billed as its most ambitious project ever in trying to shape and influence behaviour in…
Abstract: In recent years, the Trump administration, embracing the principle of ‘America First’, adopts protectionism, doubts climate change and withdraws from many multilateral regimes in…
Abstract: Noticing the gap in the existing literature, this article attempts to argue that status-seeking motives do not necessarily result in zero-sum games and hence…
Abstract: The Sino-Indian border dispute has been effectively stalemated since the end of the 1962 Border War and remains a source of serious tension between…
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a rise in China’s profile in South Asia. It is no surprise that Chinese experts have used terms,…
Abstract: Given the essential positive history of China’s relations with India, China’s world view and the fact of geographical contiguity, the essential approach that China…
