The Indian Journal of Asian Affairs (IJAA), launched in 1988, is a bi-annual, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published in June and December.

 

Aims and Scope ​

 

Devoted to an objective analysis of important contemporary and current Asian affairs, IJAA covers theoretical, empirical, historical and policy issues from a wide range of perspectives and critical appraisals within a multidisciplinary framework. IJAA is committed to generating debate, dialogue and discourses in the field of foreign policy, defense, security, peace, conflict and development, bearing upon "Asia and the world." It welcomes articles, essays and short research notes from scholars engaged in multiple disciplines in order to offer new findings, new interpretations and innovative approaches to problems and issues confronting the Asian region.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS (Vol. 35, No. 2, December 2022)

 

ARTICLES

 

The Geopsychology of Pakistan’s Taliban Misadventure

Vinay Kaura

 

Ukraine-Russia Conflict: A Geopsychological Analysis

Kalpana S. Agrahari

 

Re-emergence of the Taliban: Challenges to India’s Multilateralism Policy toward Afghanistan

Nitish Kumar and Amit Kumar

 

Relative Autonomy of Nepal: Revisiting Nepal’s Foreign Policy toward India and China

Basudeb Das

 

COMMENTARY

 

The 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement: The Rise of Political Consumerism in Hong Kong

Katherine Kane and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

China’s Soft Power and Higher Education: Rationale, Strategies and Implications (New York: Routledge, 2021)

 

China and the Ports of the Indian Ocean (Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies, 2022)

Partnership with JSTOR     

Full texts of IJAAs content, beginning from the first issue, are available in  JSTOR, a digital archive. In collaborating with JSTOR, IJAA shares in its commitment to a "long-term preservation" of scholarship. The texts are archived in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences XII Collection, Asia Collection, JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection, and Security Studies Extension.

 

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