PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• 'The Chinese Century'? The Challenge to Global Order, Palgrave, ISBN 978-0-230-53707-1, October 2008
• 'China stands up': The PRC and the modern international system, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-40269-9, June 2007
• China and the International System, 1840-1949. Power, presence and perceptions in a 'Century of Humiliation', State University of New York (SUNY) Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-7627-7, November 2008

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

International Relations / Asia-Pacific / China & India

• Environmental issues - a 'strategic' key in China-EU relations', ECAN Conference, December 2008, to be published by EU Commission 2009/10
• 'From Brussels to Beijing: Comparing the EU’s and China’s regionalization strategies', chapter in China and the Global Politics of Regionalization, ed. E. Kavalski, Ashgate Press (Political Economy of New Regionalisms series), for Sept-Dec 2009
• India's 'extended neighbourhood' concept: power projection for a rising power, accepted India Review, for 2009
• China’s language on the international system: shifting concepts, shifting reception, Paper, Post-Olympic China: globalisation and sustainable development after three decades of reform Conference (University of Nottingham), 19-21 Nov. 2008
• India tacks to the waters: energy security and the Chinese maritime challenge to India, Globalisation, Maritime Trade, Commerce and Security in the 21st Century conference (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies/Joint Services Command and Staff College), 6 October 2008, papers to be published by Ashgate Press (Maritime Policy Studies series), for 2009
• Sino-Indian security predicaments for the 21st century, Asian Security, 4.3, 2008, 1-27
• The Great Power 'Great Game' between China and India - the 'logic of geography', Geopolitics, 13.1, 2008, 1-26
• The 21st century as whose century? 'Pacific', 'China' and 'Asia' paradigms for the international system, Journal of World-Systems Research, 13.2, 2007-8, 96-118
• India's drive for a 'Blue Water' navy, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 10.2, Winter 2007-8, 1-42
• The EU-China 'strategic dialogue': pathways in the international system, in The International Politics of EU-China Relations, eds. D. Kerr/F. Liu, Oxford University Press, November 2007, 13-38.
• China-EU convergence 1957-2003: towards a 'strategic partnership', Asia Europe Journal, 5.2, June 2007, 217-34.
• Strategic Imperatives of India as an Emerging Player in Pacific Asia, International Studies, 44.2, April-June 2007, 123-40.
• China and the EU: a strategic axis for the 21st century?, International Relations, 21.1, March 2007, 23-45.
• India's 'Grand Strategy' for the Indian Ocean: Mahanian visions, Asia-Pacific Review, 13.2, November 2006, 97-129.
• Indian 'footprints' in the Indian Ocean: power projection for the 21st century, Indian Ocean Survey, 2.2, July-December 2006, 1-26.
• Diplomats and poets: 'Power and perceptions' in America's encounter with Japan, 1860, ditto, Journal of World History, 17.3, September 2006, 297-337.

East-West Encounters / Comparative Religion-Philosophy

• Manichaeism in Bactria: Political patterns and East-West paradigms, Journal of Asian History, 41.2, Summer 2007, 107-30.
• Re-walking Thoreau & Asia: 'Light from the East' for 'A very Yankee sort of Oriental', East-West Philosophy, 57.1, 2007, 14-39.
• Thoreau's 'wisdom' of the Maine Woods, Entertext: Journal for Cultural & Historical Studies & Creative Work, 6.3, Winter 2006-7, 302-23.
• Nikitin's conversion in India to Islam - a translator's dilemma, Entertext: Journal for Cultural & Historical Studies & Creative Work, 1.3, 2001, 131-61.
• William James and Buddhism: American pragmatism and the Orient, ditto, Religion, 30.4, 2000, 333-52.
• The perennial message of the Goddess - enduring themes down the ages in Bactria, East & West, 45, 1998, 27-40.
• Buddhismus und Islam. Von der Vergangenheit bis zur Gegenwart, in Wer ist Buddha?, Munich: Diederichs, 1998,196-211.
• The study of Buddhism: issues and challenges, Buddhist Studies Review, 14.2, 1997, 141-68.
• Buddhism: Sikh echoes and bridges, Studies in Religion, 26.1, 1997, 75-94.
• Buddhism and the media, Discernment, 3.3, 1996, 12-23.
• Buddhist responses to Manichaeism: Mahayana affirmation of the 'Middle Path'?, History of Religions, 35.2, 1995, 148-62
• Buddhist functionalism: instrumentality reaffirmed, Asian Philosophy, 5.2, 1995, 127-49,
• Buddhism and Islam: past to present encounters and interfaith lessons, Numen. International Review for the History of Religions, 42.2, 1995, 141-155.
• Buddhist environmentalism: developing paradigms, West London Papers in Environmental Studies, 2, 1994, 65-77.
• Siva and the East Iranians of Bactria: Hindu cross-cultural expansion – 1, International Journal of Indian Studies, 3.1, 1993, 87-106.
• Christian cross-cultural demonology across Asia, Scottish Journal of Religious Studies, 14.1, 1993, 21-32.
• The Iranian face of Buddhism, East and West, 40.4, 1990, 43-78.
• Manichaean responses to Zoroastrianism (politico-religious controversies), Religious Studies, 25, 1989, 435-57.
• Zoroastrian responses to Hinduism, past to present, Temenos. Studies in Comparative Religion, 1988, 24, 89-120.
• Medieval Christian responses to Buddhism, Journal of Religious History, 15, 1988, 165-84.
• Buddhist attitudes to Hellenism: a review of the issue, Studies in Religion, 15.4, 1986, 33-41
• Christian responses to Buddhism in the pre-medieval period, Numen. International Review for the History of Religions, 32.1, 1985, 88-100.
• Ashokan missionary expansion of Buddhism amongst the Greeks, Religion, 15, 1985, 131-41
• Manichaean views of Buddhism, History of Religions, 25.2 1985, 99-115.
• Zoroastrian traces along the upper Amu Darya (Oxus), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1984, 217-28

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