BISA 2024 Conference

Internal Affairs of Asia: An elusive balance of regional and domestic instruments

5 Jun 2024, 09:00

1h 30m

Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange

International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Description

Do Asian states from Pakistan to Japan struggle to balance their domestic and regional agendas? This panel examines scholarly responses to this critical question depicting individual regional states' policy-making.

Subcontributions

• Staffing the State: Bureaucratic Politics and Patronage in Pakistan’s Hybrid Regime
• Non-sovereign entities and the display of diplomatic agency: A case of the Taiwan independence movement
• “New modes of resistance: the power of art to desecuritise the war on drugs in the Philippines”
• An Expansion of International Studies: When Manu’s Dharma Meets Morgenthau’s Realism
• A Subalternising Geopolitics Approach to Understanding Buddhist Diplomacy in the Indian Himalayan Region