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 members of Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) are a group of eminent researchers, academicians and professionals whose synergistic effort has culminated in this forum. The principal idea behind the founding of AGA was to provide a platform for policy discussion and analysis whose reach and thrust would be transnational and global. 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 and Development
- Gender, Society and State
Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) aims to focus on 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. As an endeavour to create a voluntary academic space for deliberations in Kolkata, the AGA accords special emphasis to this city and her neighbourhood.
