BOOK REVIEWS
Modernising the People’s Liberation Army: Aspiring to Be a Global Military Power
Modernising the People’s Liberation Army ultimately serves as a sober reminder of the unpredictable journey ahead for the PLA and its impact on international security.
Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State
Cheung’s analysis is compelling and rigorous, providing a nuanced understanding of China’s rise as a techno-security state by skillfully integrating historical context, policy analysis, and theoretical frameworks.
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
The identity piece of Fukuyama provides its readers with a chance to elaborate on the paramount role of identity in society and human nature as a whole.
Strained Nepal-India Relations
This book covers the period of maintaining relations, the period of sliding relations, the intervened relations, the tilted relations, the role of diplomats and psychological barriers and others. In each chapter, the author has explained the topics with great detail which is of immense benefit to policymakers, researchers, journalists and diplomats.
China’s Political Economy in the Xi Jingping Epoch: Domestic and Global Dimensions
A new foreign policy is more assertive and uncompromising toward China's neighbors, the United States, and the rest of the world has been heralded by Xi Jinping's rise to power.
Peace as Liberation: Visions and Praxis from Below
This volume edited by Dr. Fatima Waqi Sajjad, Director of the Critical Peace Studies institute at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore – presents Liberation Psychology as a constitutive trope and remedy in order to position the Global South as victims of not only physical but also epistemic violence of colonial powers.
Imagined Communities
Anderson's exploration of vernacular languages' role in creating a national sense of community and the connection between nationalism and violence holds great relevance in today's world.
Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age
The book has unfolded some areas of research on Indo-Pacific strategics and has suggested that the Indo-Pacific will be the future area for great power politics.
Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North East India
The author has broadly tried to provide an understanding of how the hill people are treated by the lowlands and specifically used J.C. Scott’s term ‘illegible space’ to refer to the hills as non-state space.
When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises
The author of the book, Michael D. Cohen, argues that nuclear proliferation tends to be dangerous when leaders learn that nuclear assertion is safe, and proliferation tends to be safe when leaders learn that nuclear assertion is dangerous.