ICS Working papers

This article examines disease control and prevention in Occupied Japan (1945-52). It argues that the primary concerns and disease control decisions were chiefly motivated by domestic anxieties and disease burdens in the United States along with a strong commitment to protect its personnel from infections and diseases.

Can third-party States and intelligence agencies influence bilateral negotiations between adversaries? Limited literature exists on the influence of external actors on peace and conflict between India and China in the 1980s.

The artworks produced during the Mao period (1949-1976) are ubiquitously seen as just propaganda, with complete condensation of the artist's position, accompanying practices or institutional spaces.

Confucian principles have been an immutable part of Chinese society, the process of their integration and propagation resulting in the establishment of social legitimacy over time. Max Weber considered Confucianism as one of the major world religions

Since the late 1970s, the Chinese economy grew at exceptionally high rates. Today, however, the prospects are bleak: Real estate in China is probably highly overvalued and a correction of price levels overdue.

For long a marginal sphere in geopolitics, South Asia is now witnessing the beginnings of a rivalry that are altering the strategic landscape of the region.

The considerable similarity in the growth paths of the Chinese and Indian economies since their respective reforms has changed after the 2008 crisis.

2020 has seen the worst Sino-Indian fracas in decades, highlighting the urgency with which India needs to overhaul its strategy for dealing with border incidents as well as its military orientation.

When confronted with disasters, governments and peoples from different countries suffer alike-no matter how divergent their cultures, ideologies, and sociopolitical systems. In this way, the government has actively demonstrated the nation’s international citizenship and common interests with other..

Policy choices made by a country help decipher continuities and discontinuities in foreign policy making. The choices made in foreign policy making reveal the imprint of domestic political agendas and institutional arrangements that manage foreign policy.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the latest findings on challenges of an ageing and elderly population in China with emphasis on the city of Shanghai

This paper seeks to address the Indian government’s engagement with its diaspora in comparison to the Chinese government’s engagement with its diaspora.