Narendra Modi and India’s normative power
IAN HALL | Periodically, India has sought to act as a ‘normative power’ in international affairs, advancing a normative agenda about how states and… Read More
Region | India and South Asia
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Modi’s gamble: India’s demonetisation drive
YAN ISLAM | The Indian economy might experience a sharp growth slowdown next year. This has to be attributed to a dramatic decision, announced… Read More
Trump’s presidency and the Asia Pacific
DUNCAN MCDONNELL, STEPHEN MCCARTHY, LEONG LIEW, DIEGO FOSSATI, HUI FENG, YI WANG, KAI HE, HUIYUN FENG, DAVID SCHAK, ANDREW O’NEIL, MICHAEL HEAZLE,… Read More
Re-hyphenating the Indo-Pacific
IAN HALL | In the wonderfully-titled ‘From Hollywood to Bollywood’, Andrew Phillips questions the utility of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept. He thinks it’s less than… Read More
Fiscal consolidation: Does it work?
YAN ISLAM | Presentation given by Yan Islam (Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute and former Chief, Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch, ILO, Geneva) to the… Read More
India’s unavoidable entanglements in the South China Sea
IAN HALL | This article is a summary of the Mabini Dialogue talk given by Professor Ian Hall at the Foreign Service Institute… Read More
India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people
More than a fifth of India’s population lacks access to electricity, posing a major development challenge. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to… Read More
Multialignment and Indian foreign policy under Narendra Modi
IAN HALL | Since Narendra Modi’s became Prime Minister in May 2014, India has hosted an American president at its Republic Day celebrations and… Read More
Cosmopolitan insights from B.R. Ambedkar, India’s anti-caste campaigner and constitutional architect
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) has long been a source of inspiration for India’s Dalits, formerly called ‘untouchables’. He was himself the first Dalit to… Read More
Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling
ANDREW SELTH | He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it. The Indian Institute of Advanced Study and the… Read More
