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Routledge Studies on Think Asia


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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]

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Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence

Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi, Brian Bridges
August 15, 2024

Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations reveals the genesis and evolution of Southeast Asian countries’ diplomatic relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) by unpacking the underlying political, economic, and security connections.  In this book, chapters analyse in ...

Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf The Presidency of Hassan Rouhani

Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf: The Presidency of Hassan Rouhani

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Javad Heiran-Nia
July 18, 2024

This book examines the security arrangements of the Persian Gulf, with a particular focus on Iran's security plans since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution and follows it during Hassan Rouhani presidency.  The book provides responses to the questions regarding the security plans of the Islamic...

India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity Emergence of a Possible Indo-Pacific Axis?

India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity: Emergence of a Possible Indo-Pacific Axis?

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited 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

Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual and Operational Challenges

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited 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

New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited 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

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

ASEAN and India–ASEAN Relations: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics

1st Edition

Edited 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

Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age

1st Edition

Edited 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

Mongolia and Northeast Asian Security: Nuclear Proliferation, Environment, and Civilisational Confrontations

1st Edition

Edited 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

Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific: The Changing Profile of International Relations

1st Edition

Edited By Jagannath P. 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?

Contemporary China: A New Superpower?

1st Edition

Edited 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. ...

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula An Emerging Security Architecture

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture

1st Edition

Edited By Shin-wha Lee, Jagannath Panda
August 18, 2023

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world’s more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific.  This book provides ...

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