Indian Election Blog
March 10, 2014
IAPS will be running an Indian Election Blog over the next few weeks, focusing on aspects of the campaign, candidates, state level politics and personalities. This will be run from the Ballots and Bullets Blog and will feature posts from academics working on India in the UK, Europe, America, India and Pakistan. See the first post …
Ethnic autonomy in South Asia: a prelude to secession?
March 5, 2014
Within South Asia in 2014, the states of Nepal and Burma/Myanmar are currently undergoing constitutional redesign and experiencing demands for recognition of territorially concentrated ethnic groups. Similar demands are being made in Pakistan, with demands for Seriaki and Hazara speaking provinces receiving more support in recent years. India is one presidential pen stroke away from creating its …
Losing the Great Game; Russia and China in Central Asian Energy Relations.
February 28, 2014
IAPS was delighted to welcome Davinia Hoggarth, PhD student at the University of Warwick who spoke on the subject of Losing the Great Game; Russia and China in Central Asian Energy Relations. In her extremely stimulating presentation, she argued against the presentation of Kazakhstan as a passive player in the Great Game’, pointing out that …
Tri-campus workshop on Identity and Recognition
February 25, 2014
This event has now been postponed. An update will be posted when more information is available. A tri-campus workshop will be held at the University of Nottingham UK under the auspices of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies (CSPI). We are inviting paper proposals from …
Ethnic Autonomy in South Asia – a road to secession?
February 17, 2014
As the debate over the Scottish referendum hots up this week, in my inaugural lecture this Thursday 20th Feb I consider the arguments made against granting autonomy to territorially concentrated groups (often termed ‘ethnofederalism’) because of the perceived dangers of increasing pressures for secession. These arguments are prevalent in political discourse and were deployed against …
Call for applicants for a permanent post in Asian Politics
February 12, 2014
Permanent jobs! The School of Politics and International Relations has just advertised three permanent, full time posts. They are open posts but one of the areas in which we’re very keen to appoint is Asian Politics. Please disseminate widely (or, indeed, apply yourself!). Keen to have really good applicants in this area to help expand …
Rights, Wrongs and Drones
February 9, 2014
IAPS was delighted to welcome Dr Peter Lee, Principal Lecturer in Military Ethics and Assistant Director (Academic) for Portsmouth Business School at Royal Air Force College Cranwell on the 6th February 2014. Dr Lee gave a lecture on Rights, Wrongs and Drones: The Moral Standing of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In …
Ethno federalism in Nepal?
January 31, 2014
Dr Mara Malagodi came to talk to the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) on the 30th January 2014. Dr Malagodi was speaking on the topic of The Making of New Nepal? State Restructuring, Identity Politics and the Constitutional Impasse. Her talk focused on explaining why waiting for federalism in Nepal was like ‘waiting …
IAPS PhD Studentship in History
December 16, 2013
IAPS is co-funding a PhD studentship in conjunction with the Department of History, within the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham. We invite applications for a PhD Studentship in one or more of the following areas: the history of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia (especially Japan), and the history of migration, labour, …
Riots in Singapore as it struggles to juggle growth and migration
December 13, 2013
Caryl Thompson writes: Singapore, an affluent city-state, is known for being orderly and conformist. So the riots that took place on the night of the 8 December in the Little India district came as a shock to authorities and residents alike. This was not, as prime minister Lee Hsieng Loong, has suggested an “isolated incident”. …
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