Politics and Current Affairs

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...

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...