Routledge Studies on Think Asia
About the Book Series
This series addresses the current strategic complexities of Asia and forecasts how these current complexities will shape Asia’s future. Bringing together empirical and conceptual analysis, the series examines critical aspects of Asian politics, with a particular focus on the current security and strategic complexities. The series includes academic studies from universities, research institutes and think-tanks and policy oriented studies. Focusing on security and strategic analysis on Asia’s current and future trajectory, this series welcomes submissions on relationship patterns (bilateral, trilateral and multilateral) in Indo-Pacific, regional and sub-regional institutions and mechanisms, corridors and connectivity, maritime security, infrastructure politics, trade and economic models and critical frontiers (boundaries, borders, bordering provinces) that are crucial to Asia’s future.
Please submit your proposals to the series editor Jagannath P. Panda: [email protected]
India’s Climate Change Policy and the Securitisation of Development: Security and Justice in Transition
1st Edition
By Anjan Kumar Sahu
August 17, 2026
This important volume uses securitisation theory to critically evaluate India’s climate change policy, scrutinising the normative and non-normative features of the theory, and suggesting the introduction of open impartiality as a corrective lens to address the theory’s ethical deficits. The book ...
Culture, History, and Geopolitics in Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Debasish Nandy, Nargiz Hajiyeva, Monojit Das
July 14, 2026
This cutting-edge volume explores the multifaceted identity of a region that has been a melting pot for civilizations through the ages, and a key player in contemporary geopolitics. The book’s comprehensive approach offers a unique perspective that integrates cultural, historical, and geopolitical ...
Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi, Brian Bridges
May 22, 2026
Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations reveals the genesis and evolution of Southeast Asian countries’ diplomatic relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) by unpacking the underlying political, economic, and security connections. In this book, chapters analyse in ...
Maritime Power and China's Grand Strategy
1st Edition
By Anil Kumar Chawla
May 21, 2026
This book examines the role of maritime power in the ‘Chinese Dream’ of becoming the pre-eminent global power by 2049, a century after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The book argues that China seeks to use its maritime power as part of its quest to attain Great Power ...
Public Diplomacy of South Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuyoun Chung
May 21, 2026
This book introduces South Korea’s public diplomacy and identifies and evaluates the goals and corresponding areas of. It discusses implication for the foreign policy of the current Yoon Suk Yeol administration under the competitive geopolitical landscape. By establishing political diplomacy, ...
Transnational Public Spheres: Asian and Western Perspectives on Civic Spaces and Infrastructures Beyond the Nation-State
1st Edition
By Mohammadbagher Forough
May 21, 2026
This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives. The current era is characterised by transnational challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, that cannot be adequately addressed ...
Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf
1st Edition
By Javad Heiran-Nia
December 26, 2025
This book examines the security arrangements of the Persian Gulf, with a particular focus on Iran's security plans since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution and follows it during Hassan Rouhani presidency. The book provides responses to the questions regarding the security plans of the Islamic...
China's Vertical Multilateralism and the Global South: Narratives, Networks, and Money
1st Edition
By Dominik Mierzejewski, Jarosław Jura, Bartosz Kowalski, Mario Esteban
October 21, 2025
This book provides an in-depth analysis of China-led multilateralism and decodes China’s narratives, and political and business practices, both from theoretical and practical dimensions. Introducing the mechanisms that govern China-led multilateral formats in what China sees as the Global South, ...
Nepal and Major Powers in the Himalayas: Small State in International Affairs
1st Edition
By Saroj Kumar Aryal, Manish Jung Pulami
September 17, 2025
This book offers an unique analysis of small states in international relations from the perspective of Nepal, which lies at a strategic geopolitical position between China and India. This book argues that Nepal has been in a strategic position between the great powers for many centuries. The ...
Armenia and the Belt and Road Initiative: Perspectives from Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sos Khachikyan, Jagannath Panda, Ralph M. Wrobel
February 25, 2025
This book analyses the opportunities enabled for Armenia by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the framework of economic cooperation, policy diversification, social inclusion and regional cohesion. Structured in five parts, the chapters outline the economic, geopolitical and legal agenda for...
India-Korea Connections in the Indo-Pacific: Minilateralism to Multilateralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jagannath Panda, Choong Yong Ahn
February 19, 2025
India‑Korea Connections in the Indo‑Pacific presents multidimensional aspects of the Special Strategic Relationship between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and India, ranging from security, diplomacy, trade and FDI, and people‑to‑people exchanges. It analyses the India‑Korea partnership and its ...
South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman
1st Edition
By Choong Yong Ahn
December 19, 2024
This book examines Korea’s foreign direct investment policy dynamics and points out the importance of mutual synergy between multinational corporations and their host countries in a win-win framework and the increasing importance of this in a post-pandemic world. A multitude of case studies shows ...