Diplomatic History of Asia: Changing Contours
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Transformations in Asia and India-China relations: impact and implications/Alka Acharya. 2. Diplomacy and diplomatic protocol under the Mughals/N R. Farooqi. 3. The 1919 March First Movement of the Korean People and India/Pankaj Mohan. 4. From the forgotten war to Trump-Kim Summits: a historical analysis of US-China-Korea Triangle diplomacy/Shachee Agnihotri. 5. Studying cultural basis of diplomatic history: China and Tibet through marriage, multiculturalism and representation/Priyanka Chakraborty. 6. Rethinking South Asia: locating the matrixes of conjectures and cooperation/Priyanka Jha. 7. Asia: Strategic player in global energy transition/Girijesh Pant. 8. Understanding the dynamics of diplomatic relations of China with Central Asia/Madan Mohan Gupta. 9. China as a Lynchpin in impacting economic dimensions of Central Asia/Meenakshi Yadav. 10. Bhutan, India and China: a small state and two big neighbours/Mathew Joseph C. 11. India and China in Asian Order: Interrogating dialogues of the past and future/Keshav Mishra. 12. Indo-Iran relations under the shadow of cold war/Alima Naqvi. 13. India-China border imbroglio: the way forward/Muraleedharan Nair. 14. Diplomatic history of Asia: connections, disjunctions and prospects/Dipak Malik.
This volume of essays is a result of our collective forays into the vast canvas of the history of Asia especially in the context of rapid changes taking place at both the macro and micro levels. Focusing on diplomatic history, the papers explore emerging trends in the current Asian order and the historical inter-relatedness and commonalities which have continued to be challenged by the imperatives of the modern nation state. Within this ambit, themes such a s intra-Asia civilizational connections, anti-imperialist movements, vicissitudes of the Cold-War era, Energy diplomacy, prospects of a multi-polar Asia and impact on bilateral relations, and future recourses, have been explored and discussed.
