Trump 2.0: US Policy Towards Asia
A two-day online conference hosted in partnership with the FCDOA and the IIAS. 6 & 7 November 2025 13.00-17.00 GMT
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Navigating the Transition: India’s Role in Global Energy Security
Manish Vaid is a Junior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation India stands at the epicentre of one of the world’s most complex energy transformations. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer, India faces an unprecedented challenge that extends far beyond its borders: satisfying the energy needs of 1.4 billion people while simultaneously honouring its commitments…
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Election in Modi’s India: Endangered Democracy
Dr Börje Ljunggren is former Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam (1994-97) and China (2002-06) On 19 April, India begins its parliamentary elections. With nearly a billion voters it’s described as the world’s largest democratic exercise, yet is also deeply unsettling. Modi’s win could signal the end of a pluralistic India that has been embraced by the…
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Citizenship, Belonging and the Partition of India
A Symposium, 9 April 2021, 14.00
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MAKING THE PAST SERVE THE PRESENT: THE SILK ROAD AND CHINA’S QUEST FOR IMPERIAL REJUVENATION
DR BIJAN OMRANI, EDITOR OFÂ ASIAN AFFAIRS, THE RSAA JOURNAL, REPORTS ON THE LATEST ONLINE EXPERT DISCUSSION On 6 January, the RSAA was addressed by Eyck Freymann, a US scholar currently at Balliol College Oxford, on the Chinese presentation and ideology behind its One Belt One Road (or Belt and Road) initiative. Freymann is the author…
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Climate Change: Co-operation in South Asia
Prateek Joshi, a post-graduate international relations student at the South Asian University in New Delhi, reports on the recent visit of a retired Pakistani Defence Secretary to India, and his call for South Asian co-operation against the threat of climate change. South Asian politics, whose dominant narrative is India-Pakistan relations, witnessed a unique idea of…
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Asian Affairs: Summer issue preview – Yemen, India and the Middle East, British in Iraq…
The summer issue of the Asian Affairs Journal is now available online – click here for the contents page. Some articles are free to view by all visitors (as indicated); others are only available for free to RSAA memers/JSTOR/Taylor & Francis/Academic subscribers. Highlights include “Yemen and the Huthis: Genesis of the 2015 Crisis” – an…
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Deeper than Indigo: RSAA lecture by Jenny Balfour-Paul
Helen Crisp reports on a lecture to the RSAA last week by Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul. Jenny Balfour Paul gave a fascinating talk to the RSAA based on her new book, Deeper than Indigo, describing how she tracked the life of Thomas Machell, a mid-19th century indigo planter and traveller, after being directed to his journals…
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India-Bangladesh Border Settlement: a model to follow?
Dr Amit Ranjan, Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi, comments on the recent border accord between India and Bangladesh, and asks whether it could be a model for solving other boundary disputes between India and China, and India and Pakistan. With the forthcoming implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement…
