Kimberley Layton

India’s ambitions of becoming a superpower threaten more pressing domestic priorities. The funding of foreign policy has always entailed a necessary balancing act between domestic and foreign priorities. Governments who overspend on foreign policy may inevitably face domestic backlash, jeopardising the sustainability of their country’s international position. As Asia rises despite significant development challenges, this dilemma has never been more pertinent.

Imran Khan is now poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister. But he’s likely to find that running a country is much more difficult than winning the vote as his party is still short of a clear parliamentary majority. Once a global cricket star, Imran Khan is now poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister.

The political, economic and security power play between China and India, arguably the two most critical Asian powers today, is a major theme of current global political analysis. Against the backdrop of the Doklam plateau standoff between the two powers last year, P.S. Suryanarayana’s Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy is a timely, comprehensive and judicious volume which provides a detailed analysis of both historical and recent India-China relations.