Sage Publications, Inc. (Books and Journals)

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Chanborey Cheunboran, Cambodia’s China Strategy: Security Dilemmas of Embracing the Dragon. New York: Routledge, 2021, 251 pp. £37.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780367762339.

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

S. Jaishankar, Why Bharat Matters. New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2024, 248 pp., $40 (Hardcover) ISBN: 978-9357027601.

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Jamey E. Dorsey, The Battle for the Soul of Islam: Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 216 pp. (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-9819728060.

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

T. V. Paul, India’s Unfulfilled Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2024, 263 pp. (hardback) ISBN: 9780197669990.

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

This article examines South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s mediation during the 2017–2018 U.S.–DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) crisis, emphasising the importance of a multidimensional approach to power in international crisis mediation. This study argues that both strategic strengths—such as resource-based powers—and tactical strengths, including personal skills, are critical for...

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

The addition of Gulf states to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has significantly altered regional dynamics. By examining two Gulf states’ foreign policy motivations for joining the SCO, through the lens of institutional balancing and hedging concepts, we argue that they engage in both hedging through multi-alignment to achieve national objectives and mitigate risks and institutional...

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

This article examines the development of China’s sanctions legislation in an era of strategic competition. Beijing’s new sanctions regime is informed by its experience as a sanctionee, with much of the new legislation almost directly mirrored on sanctions enacted against China by the West. The article seeks to account for Beijing’s interest in pursuing a formalised approach, employing four...

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Domestic support for a nuclear South Korea is increasingly noticeable—with envisioned pathways including the return of US tactical nuclear weapons, a NATO-style nuclear sharing agreement and an indigenous nuclear programme. Existing accounts largely frame the issue in terms of Washington-Seoul alliance management and a single defining North Korean threat, focusing on questions of ‘why’ South...

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Hsiao-Ting Lin, Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies. Routledge, 2022, 260p. ISBN: 9781032134994.

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

North Korea’s nuclear armament has placed South Korea in a dilemma, as it can neither rely entirely on the United States’ nuclear extended deterrence (NED) nor pursue its own nuclear weapons development (the nuclear option). The reliability of the US NED has diminished, given North Korea’s ability to deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the US mainland. However, pursuing

• Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

The article examines discrepancies between the Indonesian government’s response to terrorist cyber activities and the actual activities of terrorists online. By analysing data from 55 convicted terrorists, the study reveals that while government efforts focus on censoring extremist content on social media and websites, terrorists have shifted to using messaging platforms for tactical coordination.

• Foreign Trade Review

There is a high level of policy interest on the effect of trade liberalisation on inequality, especially in developing countries, because of their large vulnerable populations. India also initiated the process of liberalisation as a response to the severe balance of payments crisis of 1991. However, both rural and urban inequality has been increasing since the period 1993–1994, with urban...

• Foreign Trade Review

Using a rich firm-level panel dataset of Indian manufacturing over 2010–2018, this study aims to identify the spillover effects associated with foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we distinguish spillover effects into horizontal (Intra-industry linkage) and vertical (backward or downstream and forward or upstream Inter-industry linkages) FDI channels. We employ various semi-parametric...

• Foreign Trade Review

The impact of tariff barriers affecting participation in global value chain (GVC) trade has received attention in recent literature. However, the empirical evidence in the context of mega-regional trade agreements, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), from which India opted out recently, remains non-existent. Our study contributes to the empirical literature by...

• Foreign Trade Review

Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ramesh Chandra Das, and Achintya Ray (Eds.), COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality: Reflections in Labour Market, Business and Social Sectors (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023), 333 pp. €128.39 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-981-99-4404-0.

• Foreign Trade Review

This study aims to reveal the need to reformulate new forms of Bilateral Trade Balances (BTBs) for a country rather than a traditional BTB. This is because the traditional BTB ratio, based on total exports and defined as the total exports/total imports ratio, cannot classify and quantify a BTB based on its economic impact content. It fails to classify because countries also export goods already...

• Foreign Trade Review

This study explores the effect of trade and industrialisation on environmental sustainability in Africa. To achieve the study objective, the pooled mean group estimation strategy was employed on data from 1990 to 2019 for 38 selected African countries. Findings are indicative that trade has a negative and significant effect on ecological footprint in the long run. It is iemplied that trade...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

The price control legislations are the main policy tool used in India to make medicines accessible. It is important to understand the real impact of these interventionist policies on patients’ lives. The objective of the article is centred on understanding the effectiveness of price interventionist policy to reduce the out-of-pocket expenditure of patients. The article examines whether the...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

In this era of the Anthropocene, where four of the nine planetary boundaries have been crossed, the need for environmental stewardship, social equity and sustainability cannot be over-emphasized. So critical is the sustainability discourse that it has transcended disciplinary boundaries, permeating various aspects and sectors of human endeavour. A critical area where sustainability, as evidenced...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

The debate surrounding the permissibility of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in legal education has garnered widespread attention. However, this discourse has largely oscillated between the advantages and disadvantages of generative AI usage whilst failing to fully consider how the uptake of these tools relates to the fundamental objectives of legal education. This article...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

The COVID-19 epidemic accentuated the pre-existing vulnerability of migrant workers in India, hence centralizing the causes of social and economic disturbances brought about by lockdowns.3 Often working in the informal sector without social safety nets, migrant workers had great difficulties, including loss of livelihood, lack of access to basic healthcare, poor accommodation and movement...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

The access to justice crisis is severe in India and Bangladesh. Both of these countries have enormous unmet legal needs. To ensure access to justice, three components need to be fulfilled: The existence of a legal institutional framework, awareness among citizens regarding this framework and its processes and citizens’ effective access to them. The state is obligated to ensure that there is...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

Since China boasts the highest numbers of online education institutions and users relative to other countries in the world, it has also been blessed with sufficient materials that may be used for empirical research. Although some studies have revealed the potential underlying legal risks in online education, there is still a paucity of scholars who set out to explore how the issues arose during...

• Asian Journal of Legal Education

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the global order, challenging long-standing assumptions about the North–South divide and the efficacy of international legal frameworks. This article argues that the pandemic has accelerated the emergence of a new international legal regime, one that moves away from the Western-centric approach that has historically dominated global governance....

• Indian Journal of Public Administration

Minimum Support Price (MSP) is one of the many important aspects related to agricultural development. Farmers have been demanding MSP for decades, but the demand for legalisation of MSP has been raised prominently by the contemporary farmers movement. On the one hand, farmers had been engaging in protests in Tikri, Singhu (Delhi–Haryana border) and Ghazipur (Delhi–UP border) throughout the year (2

• Studies in Indian Politics

This article seeks to examine the role of the leadership factor in the 2024 elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made leadership the centre-piece of its campaign and appeal for votes. While the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) coalition consciously avoided a confrontation with the BJP around the leadership issue, this factor continued to assume salience during the...

• Indian Journal of Public Administration

This article aims to scrutinise the job markets and the impacts on jobs due to quite new themes which the world has witnessed, such as rise of illiberal democracies, trade wars between nations, artificial intelligence and big data. It is quite interesting to see the impact of ideologies of states on the jobs they create. Artificial intelligence is going to be a huge disruptor and so is managing...

• Studies in Indian Politics

While extant research has identified several determinants of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s unprecedented victory in the 2019 general election, they have overlooked the party’s populist radical right (PRR) nature, particularly under the leadership of Narendra Modi. Based on the demand side of PRR voting, this article examines the effect of Indian voters’ populist attitudes on their voting...

• Indian Journal of Public Administration

Tunji Olaopa, The Unending Quest for Reform: An Intellectual Memoir (Austin, TX: Pan African University Press, 2023) xxiii +258 pp. ISBN: 978-1-943533-59-6 (Paperback).

• Studies in Indian Politics

Eswaran Sridharan, Elections, Parties, and Coalitions in India: Theory and Recent History. Permanent Black. 359 pages. ₹1095.