Routledge Studies on Think Asia
About the Book Series
This series addresses the current strategic complexities of Asia and forecasts how these current complexities will shape Asia’s future. Bringing together empirical and conceptual analysis, the series examines critical aspects of Asian politics, with a particular focus on the current security and strategic complexities. The series includes academic studies from universities, research institutes and think-tanks and policy oriented studies. Focusing on security and strategic analysis on Asia’s current and future trajectory, this series welcomes submissions on relationship patterns (bilateral, trilateral and multilateral) in Indo-Pacific, regional and sub-regional institutions and mechanisms, corridors and connectivity, maritime security, infrastructure politics, trade and economic models and critical frontiers (boundaries, borders, bordering provinces) that are crucial to Asia’s future.
Please submit your proposals to the series editor Jagannath P. Panda: [email protected]
India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity: Emergence of a Possible Indo-Pacific Axis?
1st Edition
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By Jagannath P. Panda
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trilateral. Through this book, contributors examine the strategic and global partnership between India and Japan and the collaboration with ASEAN. Analysing contemporary ...
Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual and Operational Challenges
1st Edition
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By Swaran Singh, Reena Marwah
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on emerging new multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific and offers a useful analysis of various existing and evolving formulations and alignments in the region. The book problematises the evolution, relevance and changing contours of emerging economic and security architectures and ...
New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia
1st Edition
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By Kuyoun Chung, Wonbin Cho
May 27, 2024
This book examines the quality of democracies in Asia and determines why current democracies—especially during the so-called “new normal” era following the 2008 financial crisis—have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism. Based on the assumption that the concept of ...
China in India's Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Chietigj Bajpaee
January 29, 2024
This book examines the role of China in driving and sustaining India’s post-Cold War engagement with Southeast Asia. In doing so, it provides a unique insight into the regional dimensions of the Sino-Indian relationship. India launched its Look East Policy in the early 1990s as part of a concerted ...
ASEAN and India–ASEAN Relations: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics
1st Edition
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By M. Mayilvaganan
September 25, 2023
This book analyses the nearly 30 years of India–ASEAN relations from a contemporary perspective, identifies the reasons for India’s vibrant and significant relation with ASEAN and examines the cultural, economic, political and strategic linkages between India and ASEAN. The book projects the future...
Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age
1st Edition
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By Brendon J. Cannon, Kei Hakata
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region’s growing prominence as the world’s major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globe’s most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims at clarifying the geopolitics of the...
Mongolia and Northeast Asian Security: Nuclear Proliferation, Environment, and Civilisational Confrontations
1st Edition
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By Alicia J. Campi, Jagannath Panda
September 25, 2023
This book assesses Mongolia’s position in the security calculus of Northeast Asia and presents the policy outlooks of major powers vis-a-vis the region, including the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and India. Ground-breaking and modernistic in its approach, the book treats the often ...
Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific: The Changing Profile of International Relations
1st Edition
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By Jagannath Panda, Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell
September 25, 2023
This book explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world. With the Quad partners – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – seeing deteriorating ties with China, the ...
Contemporary China: A New Superpower?
1st Edition
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By Kristina Kironska, Richard Q. Turcsanyi
August 18, 2023
Contemporary China: A New Superpower? is a unique textbook introducing the complexity and diversity of China’s society, politics, economics, and international affairs, and the multiple ways in which their dynamics corroborate to simultaneously construct and challenge perceptions of China. ...
Asian Geopolitics and the US–China Rivalry
1st Edition
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By Felix Heiduk
January 09, 2023
This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific. The book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on ...
India and the Arab Unrest: Challenges, Dilemmas and Engagements
1st Edition
By Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
January 09, 2023
This book is a study of India’s political, diplomatic and security challenges caused by the changing geopolitical and security dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Like many other countries, India has been deeply affected by the unrest in the Arab world. As India has several ...
The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Mason Richey, Jagannath P. Panda, David A. Tizzard
January 09, 2023
This book considers both Koreas - North Korea and South Korea - to examine possible pathways for the years leading up to 2032 and beyond, thus offering a composite picture of Korea and its strategic relevance in Asia and the world at large. Through a combined South-North Olympic team and an effort...