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Global Climate Change Politics: Critical Appraisal of India’s Changing Role India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Alok Kumar Gupta, Kaushiki Parihar
Global warming and consequent climate change have emerged as serious issues and have started featuring on almost all multilateral forums with statements warning the global leadership to get increasingly proactive about addressing the issues. In world politics, countries are viewing climate change as an issue to gain influence in international politics. India is no exception to this rule and has been
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Implications of India’s Act East Policy on the Food Systems and Cultural Heritage of the Konyak Nagas: A Case Study of Sustainable Subsistence and Capitalistic Rationalisation India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sweta Tiwari
This article examines the potential impact of India’s Act East Policy on the food systems of the Konyak Nagas, an indigenous community in Nagaland. The article studies how the traditional knowledge of the Konyak Nagas about the land, labour and ecology has influenced their food culture. The communal landholdings, shifting cultivation, natural preservation of food items, manual labour in agricultural
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Climate Change and Regional Cooperation in South-east Asian Countries India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Bhaskar Gogoi, Jayanta Krishna Sarmah
Climate change and environmental degradation are the two most pressing concerns faced by the world today for which regional cooperation is necessary. For regional cooperation, governments at the regional level must work together to coordinate activities, unify regulations and create risk-reduction plans. In South-east Asia, multiple initiatives have been taken for a shared framework for carrying out
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Book review: Nivedita Ray and Sankalp Gurjar (Eds.), India and Africa Looking Ahead: Contemporary Realities and Emerging Prospects India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Virendra Gupta
Nivedita Ray and Sankalp Gurjar (Eds.), India and Africa Looking Ahead: Contemporary Realities and Emerging Prospects (Macmillan, 2023), 200 pp., ₹1430 (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 9356660255.
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Book review: Michael O. Slobodchikoff and Aakriti A. Tandon, India as a Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Vikash Chandra
Michael O. Slobodchikoff and Aakriti A. Tandon, India as a Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power (Ann Abor: University of Michigan Press, 2022), XIV+164 pp. $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-472-05566-1 (Paperback).
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Playing Cricket: India’s Soft Power, Nation Branding and Future Prospects India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Suman Kumar Das, Akhil Chandra Borah, Shovit Mallick
The growing interdependence among the nations, the advancement of science and technology and the impact of globalisation have made it less useful for nations to rely predominantly on hard power to pursue their foreign policies’ goals. In the contemporary era, nations have shifted their attention to soft power as an alternative policy to maximise gains from other countries. Although the exercise of
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Book review: Rajesh Basrur, Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sonika Gupta
Rajesh Basrur, Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy. Orient BlackSwan, 2023, pp. 252, ₹1150 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781647122843.
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Book review: Hoineilhing Sitlhou (Ed.), Identity and Marginality in North East India, Challenges for Social Science Research India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sanjoy Hazarika
Hoineilhing Sitlhou (Ed.), Identity and Marginality in North East India, Challenges for Social Science Research. Orient BlackSwan, 2023, pp. 352, ₹1250 (Paperback), ISBN: 9789354423871.
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Ethiopia’s and Kenya’s Use of Military Force as an Instrument of Foreign Policy in Post-1991 Somalia India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Tadie Degie Yigzaw, Kidane Mengisteab
In the history of politics, states have viewed military intervention as one of their tools of foreign policy. However, many scholars have not agreed on the effectiveness of military means in achieving the foreign policy objectives of states. Like other states, Ethiopia and Kenya have used the military as a means of foreign policy and tested their tools in Somalia practically. However, the effectiveness
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A Lost Frontier or a New Gateway to Global Climate Action? The Afghan Leadership and the Revival of Afghanistan’s Mineral Sector India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Sriroop Chaudhuri, Mimi Roy
Is Afghanistan a lost frontier? A superficial look might conform to this notion, given the continued state of unrest and instability, rampant hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy and unemployment. In this reflective discourse, however, we highlight a brighter (largely overlooked) aspect: her mineral reserves, estimated at nearly USD 1 trillion, including some of the world’s richest lithium and rare earth
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The Bay of Bengal Subzone Within the Indo-Pacific: Historical Relevance and Present Orientation India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Shantanu Chakrabarti
Paradigms and conceptualisations are essential tools used in international relations literature. Such conceptualisations, however, continue to be heavily dependent on Western epistemology and strategically oriented. Such theoretical models and projections fail to adequately conceptualise the Indo-Pacific region. The neglect of local connectivity and subregions within the Indo-Pacific world has resulted
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The Indian Media’s Interface with Diplomacy India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Gazala Fareedi
Diplomacy and its institutions have been constantly changing. The manner in which diplomacy was practised in the earlier centuries is vastly different from how it is being practised in the twenty-first century. These changes range from the emergence of the training of messengers, the start of record keeping of diplomatic exchanges, the establishment of resident embassies, codification of formal diplomatic
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Discerning Taliban 2.0 and Afghanistan’s Political Landscape India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Raghav Sharma
Politically astute and organisationally deft the Taliban forged ‘antagonistic cooperation’ with key regional players who courted the movement vigorously as it sought to reinvent itself as ‘Taliban 2.0’. However, two years into the rule of ‘Taliban 2.0’, the chasm between rhetoric and reality has widened. This article disaggregates the idea of ‘Taliban 2.0’, arguing that subtle differences notwithstanding
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India’s Distinct but Opposing Patent Model Is Under Pressure: Prospects and Challenges in the Global Arena India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Muhammad Zaheer Abbas
The Indian patent model is a powerful and well-balanced model that not only complies with the requirements of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) but also considers domestic needs and national interest. This study endorses India’s approach of fully availing itself of public health flexibilities provided in the TRIPS Agreement. India’s well thought
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Critical Annotations on Historical Documents: Methodological Possibilities for International Relations Research India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Madhura Balasubramaniam
This process note explicates the methodological intervention of maintaining fieldnotes on government documents and its significance for historically situated international relations (IR) research. For the most part, IR scholarship treats archival documents as the neutral preserve of the state, representing its coherent national interests. Building on discussions around critical methods within IR, I
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Promoting Human Rights as a Way of Improving Soft Power: The Case of India’s Caste-Based Discrimination at the United Nations India Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Tejal Khanna
The ascendance of India as an economic power is well documented. This rising India has also focused on increasing its soft power and influence in international politics, especially through the dissemination of its values of ancient cultural heritage such as Buddhism, yoga and engagement with the diaspora. In the field of human rights as well, as a founding member of the United Nations (UN), India has
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Social Media Use as an Impulsive ‘Escape From Freedom’ India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Phil Reed, Will Haas
It has been suggested that avoiding choice represents an anxiety-avoidance strategy, which has not been investigated in the context of social media. To this end, the current study explored the rela...
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Malpractice Lawsuits Relating to Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kasim Qureshi, Muhammad U. Farooq, Philip B. Gorelick
Background and PurposeMedical-legal claims for malpractice relating to the use of alteplase for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) are usually for failure to treat rather than for complications. The adven...
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The potential politics of the porous city India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Theresa Enright, Nathan Olmstead
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the “porous city,” outlining three sets of contributio...
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MRI Does Not Improve Inter- or Intrarater Reliability for Hip Arthritis Grading Systems India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 W. Michael Pullen, Kinsley Pierre, Ivan Wong, Stephen K. Aoki, T. Sean Lynch, Richard C. Mather, III, Olufemi R. Ayeni, J.W. Thomas Byrd, Marc R. Safran
Background:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and radiographs are often utilized in assessing for preoperative osteoarthritis in patients undergoing hip preservation surgery.Purpose:To determin...
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Results of Endoscopic Labral Repair With Concomitant Gluteus Medius and/or Minimus Repair Compared With Outcomes of Labral Repair Alone: A Matched Comparative Cohort Analysis at Minimum 2-Year Follow-up India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nolan S. Horner, Reagan S. Chapman, Jordan H. Larson, Shane J. Nho
Background:There is a paucity of information available to clinicians on outcomes of patients undergoing endoscopic surgery for labral repairs and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome with simultan...
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Axial Compressive Loading Attenuates Early Osteoarthritis by Reducing Subchondral Bone Remodeling India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jianqun Wu, Yonghao Pan, Yangyi Yu, Qihao Yang, Qisong Liu, Yang Liu, Jinhao Zhong, Linhao Fu, Haotian Cai, Chao Liu, Guangheng Li
Background:Mechanical loading and alendronate (ALN) can be used as noninvasive physical therapy methods for osteoarthritis (OA). However, the timing and efficacy for treatments are unknown.Purpose:...
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Stroke and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jonah P. Zuflacht, Joshua M. Levine
Cancer and stroke comprise two of the most common causes of death worldwide. Despite a significantly increased risk of stroke among patients with cancer, most stroke trials have excluded patients w...
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Influence of acid concentration on thermomechanical, tensile and thermal properties of cyclized natural rubber India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Ruedee Jaratrotkamjorn, Nabil Hayeemasae, Zunaida Zakaria, Abdulhakim Masa
Properties of cyclized natural rubbers (NR) with various degrees of cyclization (∼4-22%) were investigated in this study. Prior to compounding with rubber additives, the cyclized rubbers were initi...
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Suppression of inner ear signal intensity on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging in cats with vestibular disease India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Stephen Everest, Gabrielle Monteith, Luis Gaitero, Francesca Samarani
ObjectivesOtitis media/interna (OMI) is the most common cause of peripheral vestibular disease in cats. The inner ear contains endolymph and perilymph, with perilymph being very similar in composit...
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Diaspora in Humanitarian Action: Analysing the Indian Diaspora’s Humanitarian Potential and Efforts for ‘Mother India’ India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Suheel Ahmad Parry
Humanitarian action is commonly thought to involve two types of aid providers: international and local actors. But this tends to ignore a third humanitarian domain, namely transnational humanitaria...
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Book review: Dhananjay Tripathi (eds.), Re-Imagining Border Studies in South Asia India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Kaustabh Deka
Dhananjay Tripathi (eds.), Re-Imagining Border Studies in South Asia. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021, pp. 264 (hardback), ISBN 9780367337186.
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Book review: Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal (eds.), South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Madhura Balasubramaniam
Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal (eds.), South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect. Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 294, ₹822 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-108-84451-2.
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Book review: Swati Ganguly, Tagore’s University: A History of Visva Bharati, 1921–1961 India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Amiya P. Sen
Swati Ganguly, Tagore’s University: A History of Visva Bharati, 1921–1961. Permanent Black, 2022, pp. 432 + Bibliography and Index, ₹1200, ISBN 9788178246406.
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Book review: Samudra Gupta Kashyap, India-Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Friendship India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Smruti S. Pattanaik
Samudra Gupta Kashyap, India-Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Friendship. ICWA and Pentagon Press, 2022, pp. 98, ₹850, ISBN: 978-93-90095-54-4.
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Book review: Jaideep Chandra, Irrawaddy Imperatives: Reviewing India’s Myanmar Strategy India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 M. C. Arunkumar
Jaideep Chandra, Irrawaddy Imperatives: Reviewing India’s Myanmar Strategy. Pentagon Press LLP, 2021, pp. 470, ISBN: 978-93-90095-34-6.
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Fashioning a ‘Buddhist’ Himalayan Cartography: Sikkim Darbar and the Cabinet Mission Plan India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Swati Chawla
In the months leading up to the transfer of power in India, the eastern Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim made several representations to the Cabinet Mission and other constitutional bodies that were giv...
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1950 India–Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship and Regional Mobilisations in Eastern India India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Samir Sharma
Regional demands for statehood in India have had an aspiration towards a ‘nationalisation’ of their issues in the hopes of accommodation. In the case of the Gorkhaland movement for separate stateho...
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Imagining Frontier Spaces: The Frontier Tribal Areas in Imperial Defence in the Northeast of British India India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Limasenla Jamir
This article concerns the northeast frontier of British India during the last years of British rule. It explores how the conundrums of the Second World War led to the reconfiguration of the northea...
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Singapore as a Destination Among Trans-Border People: Migration from the Indo-Myanmar Borderland India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Thanggoulen Kipgen
This article analyses the significance of kinship and ethnic networks in the migration of the Kuki people from the Indo-Myanmar borderland to Singapore. In addition to facilitating the disseminatio...
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Imposed Geography and Contested Spaces Among Borderland Communities in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: The Case of Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Ketoukhrie-ü
Imposed geography in the form of cartographic mapping and boundary lines is part of the state-making and production of ‘legible’ subjects throughout the world. As a result of such impositions, ther...
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Women, Marriage and Migration in the Bangladeshi Enclaves in the India–Bangladesh Borderland India Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Anamika Roy
Based on an ethnographic study of former Bangladeshi enclaves in India, the article explores how the India–Bangladesh border is negotiated and reproduced in the everyday spaces of people living in ...
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Book review: Kadira Pethiyagoda, Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Mukhtar Ahmad Bhat
Kadira Pethiyagoda, Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). pp. 359, ₹8221. ISBN-10: 3030546950.
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Challenges of Nation-Building: Uganda—A Case Study India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Caroline Thomas
The success or failure of nation-building in the new states has far-reaching implications for domestic, regional and international stability and security. This is aptly illustrated in South Asia to...
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United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and India India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Indar Jit Rikhye
Since independence, India has played an important role in strengthening the United Nations capability in the maintenance of international peace and security. Faced with the problem of Kashmir where...
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Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia: Internal and External Contexts India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Gulshan Dietl
The domestic capabilities and compulsions are the major inputs in a country's foreign policy. Regional and global circumstances influence these inputs and make them operational. Thus, the foreign p...
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Chad: From Civil Strife to Big Power Rivalry India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Kola Olufemi
Beginning from 1980 when Libyan tanks first rolled into Chad, international interest and involvement in its 18-year old civil war has been mounting. As the sputtering war erupted with renewed feroc...
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Comparing the Foreign Relations of Emirate I and Emirate II: Has Anything Changed? India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Sharif Hozoori
This article explores the similarities between Afghanistan’s Emirate II and Emirate I in terms of foreign relations. It argues that since 15 August 2021, when the Taliban took over the government i...
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A Place Called Home: The Sense of Belonging of the Afghan Hindu and Sikh Diaspora in India India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Anwesha Ghosh
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the country that triggered en masse exodus of a new wave of Afghan refugees desperate to flee the clutches of...
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Rivalry Between the Taliban and ISKP: The Collision of Terror India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Saman Ayesha Kidwai
Today, Afghanistan finds itself in the cross hairs of a security vacuum and a near-failed state, where the increasing radicalisation of its populace appears to be an inevitable reality. Despite the...
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Testing the Limits of Human Rights’ Dynamism: A Comparative Study of Afghan Women’s Rights Under the Taliban Regimes (1996, 2021) India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Maryam Jami
While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) deems human rights as universal and uniformly applicable to all societies, John Rawls’s idea of rights offers a narrower account of human righ...
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Local Conflicts and Foreign Fighters: The ‘Afghan Arabs’ Phenomena During Afghan Conflict (1978–2021) India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Ahmad Bilal Khalil
The emergence of the Afghan Arabs phenomena is the by-product of the Afghan ‘jihad’. The Arabs that mostly came to Afghanistan sought to fulfil a ‘religious’ duty in the form of jihad. This migrati...
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An Analysis of India’s Soft Power Policy in Afghanistan India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Peerzada Tufail Ahmad
Since 2001, India has pursued a non-military, non-coercive and co-optive (soft power) policy towards Afghanistan. India’s soft power approach of forging economic (aid), humanitarian, capacity build...
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Geopolitical Dynamics in the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan Triangle India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Zahoor Ahmad Wani
Since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, the geopolitics of South Asia has been shaped by a dynamic triangular relationship among Afghanistan, India and Pakistan on which depend prospects o...
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Book review: Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Ankita Dutta, Eds, Women and Power: Gender within International Relations and Diplomacy India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Laura Sjoberg
Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Ankita Dutta, Eds, Women and Power: Gender within International Relations and Diplomacy (Macmillan Education, 2022). Pp. 336, ₹2720 (hardcover); ₹1428 (Kindle).
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Understanding Confrontations and Conflicts in West Asia: Two Excellent Studies Penetrate the Veil India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Talmiz Ahmad
Deepika Saraswat, Between Survival and Status: The Counter-Hegemonic Geopolitics of Iran (MacMillan Publishers, 2022). Pp. 212, ₹1650.Fazzur Rehman Siddiqui, Arab World in Transition and the Quest ...
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Book review: Colin R. Alexander, ed., The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy: Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-25 William J. Jones
Colin R. Alexander, ed., The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy: Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere. Routledge, 2021, pp. 238, £120, ISBN 9780367343460.
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Book review: Shahla Hussain, Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Syed Eesar Mehdi
Shahla Hussain, Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition. Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. x + 220, ₹854 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108490467.
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Book review: Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee (Eds), Gandhi and the World India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Sanjeev Kumar
Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee (Eds), Gandhi and the World. Macmillan Education, 2022, pp. 342, ₹1,650, ISBN: 978-9354552748.
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Book review: Syed Akbaruddin, India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Mubashir Ahmad Shah
Syed Akbaruddin, India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win. Harper Collins, 2021, pp. 240, ₹599 (hardback), ISBN 9789354892035.
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West German Defence Cooperation and Secret Arms Exports to Pakistan in the 1960s India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Rajendra K. Jain
Based almost entirely on declassified government documents, this article seeks to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive evaluation of the Federal Republic of Germany’s (FRG) defence cooperat...
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‘In Aid of Bangladesh’: The Soft Power Push by Bombay’s Civil Society Towards the Liberation of East Pakistan India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Bipin K. Tiwary, Anubhav Roy
India’s all-out war with Pakistan for the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 may have been brief, but it came after a lengthy prelude. For months, New Delhi laboured to convince the world—especially ...
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Russia Returns to the Indian Ocean: Exploring the Expanding Strategic Presence India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Sankalp Gurjar
Russia is a major global power and has global interests. In the last few years, Russia has been silently establishing itself as a key stakeholder in the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region where...
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Prospects and Implications of Turkish–Egyptian Reconciliation India Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Nuri Yeşilyurt, Shaimaa Magued
This commentary explains various implications of a possible Turkish–Egyptian reconciliation. Based on an extensive analysis of Turkish and Egyptian newspapers and open-ended and semi-structured in-...