Politics and Current Affairs

A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia wi...

Governance' as a new paradigm of public management emerged in the last decade of the twentieth century. It is currently the dominant mode of collec...

In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's econ...

This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste ...

In Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege, Sripati explains how, when, through which entities, and for what pur...

A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local med...

West Asia and the World explores West Asia’s changing political and socio-economic architecture post the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The chapters presente...

Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in regional autonomy ...

This book is the first empirical account on the making of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). Announced jointly by India and France on the firs...

A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers. What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? Wh...

The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding thr...

The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the ...

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and conc...

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is an agreement between two or more countries where the countries agree on certain terms and conditions that affect tr...

Governments the world over want to spend more on infrastructure (the benchmark for developing countries is 7-8% of GDP per annum) to lay the founda...

Here” is a hypothetical place where governance is poor, rule of law is not respected, and justice is often denied. Many, particularly the poor and ...

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of urban water governance. It addresses the key questions of how urban water gove...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader explores multiple facets of Nehru’s experiments in communication as a speaker, writer and fo...

Public Relations is a uniquely pervasive force in our modern economy, influencing every aspect of our lives from the personal to the political. Thi...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the international relations of South Asia.

The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of contributors providing a syste...

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of US foreign policy throughout the Indo-Pacific.

This book reconceptualises the idea of “post-truth”. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing o...

Can the genie be returned to the bottle? This book investigates the pursuit by states, civil society groups, and international organisations of nuc...

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how ...

This book analyses India’s response to COVID-19, using an intersectional framework that highlights the roles of the central government, regional go...

The book looks at the impact that the idea and institution of nationhood have had on the constituents of India in the contemporary postcolonial per...

The book examines the influence of context in which elections in contemporary India take place. It explores the interplay of elements of democracy ...

First published in 1917, Satow's Diplomatic Practice has long been hailed as a classic and authoritative text. An indispensable guide for anyone wo...

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence. It looks at Bangladesh politics as a unique case for study to analy...

This book explores the what, the why, and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power. It examine...

This book explores the philosophical and political roots of the United Bengal movement of 1947 that emerged as a final bid to keep the province uni...

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives ...

The book offers a vivid analysis of the new geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in terms of big power rivalry between the US-China and country-wise per...

The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation, and the last mile challenges which often make publ...

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it. Ove...

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...

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...