RLS Library

All in one place

RLS South Asia regularly publishes comments, short essays, political analysis and research papers, which can be accessed from the list below. Additionally you also find a selection of articles which our partners published as part of one of our joint projects.

TOPICS

Development Opportunities or Challenges

Looking at the Proposed Free Trade Agreement between India and the European Union

Crash Barriers for Post-COVID-19 Food and Agricultural Systems

Incredible examples of solidarity across the urban and rural divide were lived during the COVID-19 pandemic that showed how grassroots and solidarity actions can ensure access to nutritious food for millions of people.

Can Hunger be Defeated? Advancing Food Security in South Asia

This publication by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung combines ground reports as well as political analysis on Social Protection, Food Security and Food Sovereignty. We hope that putting together this compilation will be a step towards placing voices from the ground and policy analysis connected with Food Security and Food Sovereignty, at the same table.

Policy Paper: Vereinheitlichung und Ausgrenzung

Das Standpunkte-Papier blickt auf Geschichte, Ideologie und Ziele der hindunationalistischen Bewegung in Indien.

Policy Paper: Democracy and Discontent

This paper analyses the current political situation in India with a view to the elections in spring 2019.

Policy Paper: China´s Belt and Road Initiative

This paper analyses the new Chinese global growth and development strategy, the so-called "New Silk Route".

Policy Paper: Leftizing the Left

This paper analyses the unification of the left parties in Nepal.

Policy Paper: Rohingya-Konflikt löst regionale Krise aus

Der Standpunkt analysiert die Folgen der Eskalation des Konflikts zwischen Rohingya-Extremisten und dem burmesischen Militär.

Archiving Women’s Resistance

This working paper series from South Asian University aims to understand women's questions in left politics by carving and linking them in local resistance, and their interaction and contribution to larger movements geared towards socio-political transformation.