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The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios

The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond

Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan

Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs

Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context

Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan

Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative

Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East

Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, and Identity

The Shawshank Redemption in China: An Interview with Matti Lehtonen

The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout

Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China

Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai

Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU

Competing Visions for International Order

China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond

Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano

Machiya, Seikatsu Bunka, and Changing Domestic Culture in the Japanese Urban Environment

Strings of Identity: The Horse-Head Fiddle and Mongolian Identity in China (with Ying Song)

AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai

Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India

Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India

Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard

Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal

Localisation of Islamic Arts in Malaysia

Chile’s Growing Interests in China

Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia

Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines

Kampung Activism in Indonesia

Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka

NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan

Malaysian-Nordic Relations

NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?

NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power

Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China

Political Mythmaking in Nepal

Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises

Queering the Asian Diaspora

India in the Global Attention Economy

Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives

Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse

Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan

India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas

Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison

China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications

Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand

Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class

Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History

Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future

Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State

Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)

The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century

The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu

The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio

Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Living with Digital Surveillance in China

The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao

Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024)

Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections

India Votes 2024

Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants

India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das

Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands

Who owns Khadi?

Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry

Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio

Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”

China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses

Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan

Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand

Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance

Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies

Life after NIAS: A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Sauna Culture in Japan

Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader

Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka

India, Asia, and the Global South

Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea

Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia

Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)

Digital Repression in Thailand

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia

India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa

Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)

Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar

Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics

Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?

Global India: The Pursuit of Influence and Status

Can Thailand Move Forward?

Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines

Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Neither Friend nor Enemy: Sweden-North Korea Relations

The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India

China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes

NIAS Press: Riding the Digital Storm

Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India

Visibility as Threat: The Targeting of Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia

Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

The Great Goa Land Grab

Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)

The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education

Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese

The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US

Broken Pathways: Women’s Political Leadership in Sri Lanka

Myanmar Jewellers in China

Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Malaysia’s GE15: Reflections on a Snap Election

Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization

Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram

Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)

“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India

David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects

The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe

Towards a Green China

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

Cornelia Baciu, "Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan" (Routledge, 2022)

Political Deification in South Asia

Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu

Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots

Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam

"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"

Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise

Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?

Triumph for Independent Candidates? Observations on the 2022 Local Elections in Nepal

Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia

Podcasting Academic Research: A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast

China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy

The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China

Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine

Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority

Publishing in Asian Studies Journals

Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century

The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)

Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics

What Happened to the Farm Law Movement?

Popular Demand for Strongman Rule? Reflections on the 2022 Philippine Election

The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Race for the Governor: Talking Bangkok Elections with Saksith Saiyasombut

Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)

The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida with Paul Midford

Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China

The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea

Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic

Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)

The Future of Japanese Studies

What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng

Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate

Timor-Leste Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman

India’s Ukrainian Dilemma

Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?

Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia

Arild Engelsen Ruud and Mubashar Hasan, "Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea

China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis

Understanding Timor-Leste's 2022 Presidential Elections

Democratic Backsliding in Sri Lanka

India's Five State Elections and their Implications

Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border

Thai Totalitarians? Why the Love of Authoritarian Symbols?

The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan

Mythopolitics in South Asia

Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China

Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft

Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)

The Politics of Protest in Myanmar, with Van Tran

Motorbike Madness in Vietnam, with Hue-Tam Jamme

Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)

Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa

Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression

COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan

East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist

Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies

Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era

Autocratization in South Asia

The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai

COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective

Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19

‘Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers: Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo

Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking

In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North

Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)

Giuseppe Bolotta, "Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins" (NIAS, 2021)

The Modi Wave: Politics of the Pandemic in India

Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries

Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland

Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, with Sofie Schütte

Outgoing Prime Minister Suga and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party

Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)

Pandemic Precarity and the Livelihoods of Migrant Workers in China and Cambodia

A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen

Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty

Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)

Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication: Understanding Asia in Pandemic Times

The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics

Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance

China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers

Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)

Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)

Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä

The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor

Remembering President Noynoy Aquino: A Discussion with Sheila Coronel

Business as Usual? International Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar

In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia

Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?

William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari

The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng

Women Singer-Songwriters of 1970s Japan: A Discussion with Lasse Lehtonen

Myanmar’s Failed Coup: A Roundtable Discussion

Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand: A Discussion with Tyrell Haberkorn

Between China and Denmark: A Discussion with Jørgen Delman

How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey

Making Sense of the West Bengal Elections

The Politics of Online News in Cambodia

Thai Student Protests Past and Present with Thongchai Winichakul

Thailand's New Political Generation with Duncan McCargo - Forward to the Future?

Myanmar After the Coup with Kristian Stokke and Marte Nilsen

The state of regional connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with Xiangming Chen

Market-Leninism in Vietnam with Jonathan London

Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits in Laos with Rosalie Stolz

Biden and Asia: What lies ahead

Modi - the Sage King?

K-Pop and the Korean Wave with Jimmyn Parc

'Confucianism' and China with Jyrki Kallio

Citizenship in a Caste Polity with Jason Keith Fernandes

India - Economy and Politics in a Lockdown Nation with Alf Nilsen

Thailand's Rice Politics with Jacob Ricks

Farmers’ protests in India with Stig Toft Madsen

Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia with Friederike Trotier

State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam with Edyta Roszko

Japan After Abe with Paul Midford and Dick Stegewerns

Early Twentieth Century Japanese Film Industry with Stephen Ranger

Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts with Pauline Stoltz

Japanese Civil Society: Responding to COVID -19 at Home and Abroad with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius

Creative Engagement in Urban Spaces of East Asia with Minna Valjakka

American Imperialism, Thai Scholarship and Buddhist Cosmology with Matthew Phillips

Japanese Food and Food Packaging with Katarzyna Cwiertka

Why TikTok still matters with Hermann Aubié

Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security with Paul Midford

Information control in China with Hermann Aubié

Hidden Histories of Thai Nuns with Martin Seeger

The Politics of Branding Kazakhstan and Qatar with Kristin Eggeling

Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia with Lucrezia Canzutti

Buddhism and Constitutional Change in Thailand with Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang

Everyday Justice in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed

Malaysia's Messy Politics with Bridget Welsh

China-Finland Relations with Jyrki Kallio

China-Sweden Relations with Björn Jerdén

Waiting for Corona in India with Marjaana Jauhola and Shyam Gadhavi

China-Norway Relations with Henrik Stålhane Hiim

Money politics in Southeast Asia with Allen Hicken

Lockdown in India with Sirpa Tenhunen and Jelena Salmi

Impacts of Covid-19 on Japanese society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius

Migrant labour and care with Megha Amrith

China and the global economy with Mikael Mattlin

Thailand’s Politically Less Privileged People with Saowanee Alexander

Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh with Arild Ruud

Epidemic Management in China with Lauri Paltemaa

Following Future Forward with Aim Sinpeng

The Global Sushi Hype with Tine Walravens

Branding Post-Coup Thailand with Petra Desatova

China-Denmark Relations with Andreas Bøje Forsby

South Korean Elections with Sabine Burghart