Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) is a non-profit, independent forum for research, set up in 2017. It aims at conducting research on wide ranging global issues with an interdisciplinary and transnational approach.
Reflections
Vignettes: Places Remembered, Moments Felt
Life unfolds in fleeting moments, some vibrant, others steeped in quiet resistance, all searching for belonging. These scenes feel like fragments of a dream, momentary glimpses before they dissolve. The Mediterranean threads through these places, peeking through the gardens of…
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Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) is a non-profit, independent forum for research, set up in 2017. It aims at conducting research on wide ranging global issues with an interdisciplinary and transnational approach. AGA comprises a body of prominent academicians and scholars articulating different viewpoints on themes and issues of national and global dimensions with a view to encourage and facilitate constructive policy designing. AGA aims to collaborate with national and international research organizations with a primary objective of facilitating a greater exchange and dissemination of ideas. For actualizing its multiple research endeavours, AGA seeks funds for its projects from different Government ministries and affiliated bodies as well as from funding agencies of both national and international import. The founder m [...]
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Call For Interns
Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) announces its internship programme for January to June 2023. The aim of the organization is to explore the society, polity, culture and economy of Asia in general and the Eurasian and West Asian region in particular, with the aim of studying and establishing their linkages with India. . Some of the key areas of research are: Frontiers, Identities and Conflict Security, Democracy and Governance Culture and Heritage Demography, Migration and Displacement Linkages, Connects and Legacies Diversity, Diaspora and Urban space Energy, Environment…
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Contiguity, Connectivity and access
The Importance of the Bay of Bengal Region in Indian Foreign Policy
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Asia in Global Affairs publishes its second volume in collaboration with Netaji Institute of Asian Studies.
Asia in Global Affairs publishes its second volume in collaboration with Netaji Institute of Asian Studies. The volume containing the papers presented..read more
India’s Northwest: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Connectivity
Discussants Professor Raghav Sharma, Director, Centre for Afghan StudiesJindal School of International AffairsOP Jindal Global University Dr Dhrub..read more
Asia in Global Affairs & West Bengal State University
Asia in Global Affairs & Department of History & Political Science WBSU Barasat Collaborative Workshop. Changing contours of India's foreign p..read more
Asia Matters
Asia Matters 2
Asia Matters is the discussion paper series of Asia in Global Affairs. Asia has been the theme of discussions for some years now, not merely due to the projection of the 21st century as the Asian Century but also because of China’s emerging role in the global arena, the resilience of Asian economies in the face of a global downturn, its growing and young population, its advent as both the largest producer and consumer of goods and a plethora of other factors that would follow these developments. In contemporary times, Asia also connotes a space where new strategic and cultural geographies, which contest traditional geopolitical and geo-cultural divisions are being imagined and where alternative institutions that predict a transition of the center of global activities eastward are being framed. Asia Matters seeks to explore these and myriad other issues related to Asia in glocal contexts. Circulated electronically, the idea is to explore multiple perspectives with the understanding that they reflect the broad range of issues that AGA researchers contemplate upon and which have the potential for substantive impact. As such it reflects AGA's objective of multiple conversations, in-depth insights and meaningful impact. Download e-Book
Dialogues and Reviews
A FILM REVIEW ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN (JAWED TAIMAN, UNITED KINGDOM, 2009)
Brothers in Arms: the failure of guidance in Jawed Taiman’s Addicted in Afghanistan Addicted in Afghanistan is an observational, ethnographic documentary that was shot in 2009 at the peak of American military occupation. The story is a poignant, at times disturbing, tale of a pair of best friends battling addiction together. The director, along with […]
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Book Review
Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Asef Bayat, Stanford University, Press, 2010 This book first published a year before the Arab uprisings, written by Iranian-American scholar, Asef Bayat, explores how the collective action and individual agency of the Arabs through everyday action carry significant political weight. Bayat’s main aim throughout the […]
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The Chinese Trojan Horse
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), initially known as the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, is the prime diplomatic tool introduced by current Chinese supremo Xi Jinping back in 2013 with an ambition of making China “assertive” in global affairs. The BRI aspired to rejuvenate the ancient Silk Route, as the BRI has connected […]
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Invisible Frontlines: Women’s Varied Role in War
When war breaks out the world’s attention turns to the men on the front lines. But what about the unseen women who remain behind, taking on multiple roles to ensure their families and communities survive? Where are these women? In traditional historical accounts of war, women’s roles are often invisible This paper explores the often-overlooked […]
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