Relational Sovereignties in South Asia : Sino-Indian Relations and the Regional Reconfiguration of (Inter)dependencies

L'événement se tiendra en langue anglaise.

How is intensifying competition between India and China reshaping sovereignty across South Asia? This interdisciplinary workshop examines the changing relations of dependence and interdependence generated by Sino-Indian competition and their implications for regional political order. Moving beyond conventional understandings of sovereignty centred on territorial autonomy and legal authority, the workshop explores how sovereignty is negotiated and practised through economic, technological, infrastructural, political, and security relations.

Bringing together theoretical approaches to India-China interdependence with empirical cases from across South Asia, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, the workshop considers how states and other actors navigate and strategically leverage asymmetric relationships. In doing so, it asks when (inter)dependence becomes a source of cooperation, vulnerability, coercion, or political agency, and what these dynamics reveal about changing forms of sovereignty in contemporary South Asia.

Organisateurs : Aymeric Vo Quang (Inalco, IFRAE) View e-mail ; Sara Frumento (University of Oxford)