Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Claude Markovits, India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 275 pp. (ISBN 978-1-316-63745-6). Claude Markovits’ India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000 is a compelling, wide-ranging examination of India’s global interactions over two centuries and a half. Across seven […]
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Asia in 2024: Fragile democracies amid global turmoil
Anno di pubblicazione: 2025
In Search of Connection with Service: Citizens, brokers, and civil servants
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, xi+275 pages (ISBN: e-book 978069 1236100). Akshay Mangla, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, xx+420pages (ISBN: 978-1009-25801-2 Hardback). […]
Capability in the Public Sector in India: Agendas for improvement
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf TV Somanathan and Gulzar Natarajan, State Capability in India, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii+425 pages (ISBN 978-0-19-285661-6). Karthik Muralidharan, Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance, Gurugram: Penguin Random House India, 2024. xiii+812 pages (ISBN 9780670095940). Introduction These books puzzle about how to improve capability and effectiveness in […]
Violence of Communalism and Feminist Ethnography of Peace
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Emanuela Mangiarotti, Feminist Peace and the Violence of Communalism: Community, Gender and Caste in India, Routledge, 2025, 270 pp. (ISBN: 978-1-032-56605-4; ISBN: 978-1-032-56607-8, ISBN: 978-1-003-43633-1). Feminist research in general and feminist peace research in particular contend with a range of methodological concerns. Primary among these is the need to […]
The Making of the Modern Middle East: When the Periphery Rules the Centre
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Guillemette Crouzet, Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022, 284 pp. (ISBN 978-0-2280-1406-5). With Inventing the Middle East, we are presented with a scientifically rigorous and valuable study. This book offers an insightful interpretation of the events […]
Imperialism without Empire? The Swiss and their legacies of transimperial mercenarism
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Philipp Krauer, Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies: A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914, Leiden, The Netherlands: Leiden University Press, 2024, 236 pp. (ISBN 978-9-0872-8414-5). Due to its political neutrality, economic growth, and multiculturalism, the history of modern Switzerland after 1848 has often been self-characterized as a […]
Repackaging Colonial Violence: Race, war, and the myth of British counterinsurgency in Malaya
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Kate Imy, Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, 352 pp. (ISBN: 978-1-5036-3675-3). Kate Imy’s Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960 is a deeply researched and conceptually rich study that interrogates the […]
The Confort Women of Singapore
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Kevin Blackburn, The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory, Singapore: NUS Press, 2022, 208 pp. (ISBN 978-981-325-186-1). Decades after Kim Hak-sun first delivered her public testimony detailing her enslavement as a ‘comfort woman’ during World War II, the legal fight to hold Japan accountable for war crimes […]
Maritime Connections: Navigating through Vietnamese history
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Li Tana, A Maritime Vietnam. From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 341 pp. (ISBN 978-1-009-23764-2). In the early twenty-first century, Vietnam’s relationship with the sea is undeniable. On the one hand, the S-shaped country’s 3260-kilometre-long coastline welcomes a growing number of national and international […]
Searching for Migrant Voices in the Global Archive
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Martin Dusinberre, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 304 pp. (ISBN 978-1-009-34651-1). DOI: 10.1017/9781009346535 In his second monograph, Martin Dusinberre presents new research on Japanese labour migration to the Hawai‘i and Australia in the late nineteenth century, contextualising it […]
An Island in Between: History and geopolitics of Taiwan
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Stefano Pelaggi, L’isola sospesa: Taiwan e gli equilibri del mondo, Rome: LUISS University Press, 2022, 231 pp. (ISBN: 9788861058453) Stefano Pelaggi’s book offers a thorough yet concise geopolitical and historical analysis of Taiwan’s position in the contemporary international system, exploring both political and social dimensions. Pelaggi covers a wide historical […]
