The Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Marcin Kusztal is a business Executive, Strategic Advisor and Author of The Steppe Rules

In the winter of 1937, trains began arriving at a remote station in Kazakhstan carrying women – wives, mothers, and sisters of men ...

Jonathan Manullang is a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Basic Income Earth Network

Recentralisation rarely arrives as a dramatic reversal. Instead, it presents itself under the guise of bureaucratic “correction” – a rational, technical endeavo...

Marcus Andreopoulos and Eve Register are Researchers at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and both work closely with NATO DEEP’s Global Threats Advisory Group

Since early April, Pakistan had repeatedly sought to broker a lasting peace between...

Sumit Sharma Sameer is an author and host of the Ink and Insights podcast and Dr Pankaj Adhikari is a political scientist and policy advisor

On 8 September 2025, Kathmandu did not look like a city resigned to political drift. Thousands of y...

Dr Erica Marat, November 2026 15:00 GMT Online (Further Details to be confirmed shortly) From our anniversary series – Central Asia 35 registration will open soon

What does decolonisation mean in contemporary Kyrgyzstan? In recent years, debates about history, identity, language, and political sovereignty ...