Asia Maior

Aims & Scope

Asia Maior is an Italian think-tank concerned with Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, which applies a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Asian contemporary affairs by making use of social, political and historical perspectives. The geopolitical space analysed by the Asia Maior think tank is that part of Asia bounded to the north by the Caucasus mountain range and the southern border of Siberia, to the west by the oriental borders of Turkey and the Arab countries, to the south by the Indian Ocean and to the east by the Pacific Ocean. The articles published in the journal Asia Maior are usually focussed on the year preceding the date of publication of the issue. However, in case of countries which have not been previously analysed or have not been analysed for more than one year, the focus is on the whole period previously left unattended. The standard Asia Maior article is made of three parts: one dealing with internal policy, one with economic policy, and another one with foreign policy. The succession of these three topics and the relative lengths are decided by the single author/s, who should base his/her choice on the relative importance of the different topics in the chronological period which is analysed. For the China-related and India-related articles, this rule does not apply, as, for both countries, there are separate articles, usually one dealing with the internal situation and the other with foreign policy. Apart from the articles focussed on single Asian countries, Asia Maior publishes review articles and reviews of monographs which, by making use of different methodologies (historical, sociological, economic, anthropological, etc.), contribute to illuminate the present situation of any Asian nation or region. The monographs in question need not necessarily focus on the present or the near past, but also on historical junctures that have characterized even the distant past, but which, in some way, can illuminate the present. Occasionally, Asia Maior can publish ‘special articles’, usually dealing with topics related either to transnational problems or problematic areas such as Kashmir or Xinjiang.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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