Development Zones in Asian Borderlands' maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming...

"This book analyzes China as an economic juggernaut, undergirded by aspirations and ambitions, through the lens of its vision and how it is envisioned. China's quest for enhancing its economic footprint across South and Southeast Asia through increasing trade, achieving technological supremacy,...

The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast to predominant assumptions about the role of powerful...