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.
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Performing Globality in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation Dubai, Diaspora, and the Politics of Connectivity
The renewed instability across the Gulf, marked by the U.S.–Israeli confrontation with Iran, anxieties surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, disruptions to maritime movement, and turbulence in global energy and financial markets, has once again exposed the intimate relationship between geopolitics…
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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
CALL FOR INTERNS 2026 Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) announces its internship program for February to April 2026. The aim of the organization is to explore the society, polity, culture, and economy of Asia in general and the Eurasian and West Asian regions in particular, with the goal of studying and establishing their linkages with India. Key Areas of Research: 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,…
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Electoral Politics in Asia
The Importance of the Bay of Bengal Region in Indian Foreign Policy
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Electoral Politics in Asia
This volume examines the complex interplay of geopolitics, electoral politics, and representative governance across South, Southeast, West, and Centra..read more
China in India’s Neighbourhood Shifting Regional Narratives
This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power ..read more
Contiguity, Connectivity and Access
This volume examines themes like contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian fore..read more
Corridors Of Engagement
Asia has re-emerged as a useful case study for exploring the complex relationship between pursuing economic development through trans-state linkages a..read more
Asia Matters
As part of China’s enhanced global stature, its growing presence across Asia is increasingly becoming evident. South, Southeast and Central Asia ha..read more
CHINA IN INDIA’S NEIGHBOURHOOD
This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian ..read more
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
Conceptualizing Mass Violence
Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reas..read more
Afganistan at crossroads
More than eight years on, the war in Afghanistan is only now reaching a decisive phase. The Taliban have become a strong and multifaceted grassroo..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
National Experience and Development Strategies
AGA's first international collaboration is with International Legal Forum «Law and Economics: National Experience and Development Strategies» ..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
Digital Platforms and the New Geography of Power
Book Review of Jin, Dal Yong. Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture. Routledge, 2015. Price: $160 (Hardcover). Have power relations taken a new form in the digital landscape? Dal Yong Jin’s Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture explores the contemporary dynamics of globalization and connectivity in the twenty-first century digital era. Jin offers a new […]
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Is India’s Foreign Policy 2,000 Years Old? A Critical Review of Pande’s From Chanakya to Modi
Aparna Pande. From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy. New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 2017. Is India’s contemporary foreign policy, from its balancing act between great powers to its nuclear posture, a direct inheritance of strategic concepts drafted two millennia ago? Or are these merely convenient rhetorical cloaks for decisions driven by modern […]
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Escalating Displacement and Humanitarian Needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): A Deep Dive into Eastern DRC’s Acute Crisis
Eastern DRC, particularly North and South Kivu provinces, remains one of the world’s most severe and protracted humanitarian emergencies in 2026. Renewed fighting involving the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group (also known as AFC/M23) against Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and allied militias has triggered massive new displacements, despite partial peace agreements brokered with international mediation (such […]
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Gender and Disaster: How Asian Women Bear a Disproportionate Burden in Natural Calamities
Natural disasters do not discriminate, but the societies they strike invariably do. Across Asia, floods, earthquakes, and cyclones claim millions of lives, displace entire communities, and erode decades of development progress each year. Yet the burden of these disasters falls with striking unevenness upon women. From the low-lying coastlines of Bangladesh to the seismic zones […]
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