Politics and Current Affairs

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have...

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged...

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times wi...

This book looks at the process of cultural enlightenment in the context of Pakistan. It undertakes an interesting and in-depth research focusing on...

This book analyses the layered and complex web of terror financing in Kashmir. It examines the role of multiple actors — including formal and infor...

Technology, Policy, and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting...

This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, i...

By focusing on the socio-political ideas of the nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950), the book is an analytical dissection of his ideational vis...

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world. Economic de...

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of ...

This book explores realist theories—also called power politics approaches, formulations of systems theories, and game theory in International Relat...

This book addresses the processes and concerns within the purview of public personnel administration which is the key to success in carrying out go...

This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the inte...

This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist–pluralist orthodoxies. The boo...

This book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950s al...

This book examines the intersection of caste and politics in North India and highlights its contribution to the anthropological study of democracy....

This book explores the forms, patterns, and trends in political communication in India in the 21st century. It underlies the influence of context i...

This book provides a conceptual toolkit to understand the changing technologies and dynamics of political campaigning in India. Examining political...

This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resource...

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of national...

This book explores the idea of Muslim diaspora in context of Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. It critically looks at the notion of ummah a...

This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner in more than one way. Empirically,...

This book studies national security strategies introduced by the Koizumi administration (2001–2006) and the second Abe administration (2012–2020). ...

The book studies the development of Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision. As strategic competition grows, the lessons from the pandemic...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theories and recent debates on international political economy (IPE). It illustrates the theoretic...

This volume examines the distinct structural characteristics of Indian politics and unearths significant sociopolitical and economic processes whic...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and ex...

This book examines India’s public policies on cybersecurity and their evolution over the past few decades. It shows how threats and vulnerabilities...

The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances of Indian...

This book brings together new perspectives on India’s foreign policy in the light of a constantly shifting world order. From India’s relations in i...

This book studies India’s historical, socio-cultural, and trade linkages with Inner Asia. Inner Asia includes the landlocked regions within East As...

This volume examines how protest movement counter-conducts the ways in which the citizens have been governed. It studies the rationale, forms, tech...

The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contem...

This book traces the history and politics of the Greater Nepal movement. It looks at major events in modern South Asia, in and around the Eastern H...

This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining m...

This book critically examines the public and private healthcare systems in India. Analysing the current scenario of health insurance in India, it s...

This book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of dece...

This book turns to the intellectual discourses that have emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, on the themes of i...

This book cultivates visions and practices of integral development of the self, society, and the world. It builds upon deconstructions of developme...

This book explains why, how, and where ethnic political parties unexpectedly seek votes from non-coethnics and when voters support non-coethnic par...

This book explores the challenges, opportunities, and trends impacting the working of federations in South Asia and Europe. It deliberates on the c...

States across the Muslim world are faced with challenges associated with a perpetual cycle of conflict and violence organized along sectarian lines...

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region. The traditional understand...

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...

This book studies public policy and administration in Bangladesh. It studies how, despite recording high-levels of corruption persistently, some go...

Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from...

Several of the key concepts of biopolitics have come under scrutiny since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. This volume brings into discussion how...

This book brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions. Th...