BOOKS

• (ed) Handbook of India’s International Relations, Routledge, 2011
• The Chinese Century’? The challenge to global order, Palgrave, 2008
• China stands up. The PRC and the modern international system, Routledge, 2007, inc. cover
• China and the international system, 1840-1949: Power, presence and perceptions in a ‘Century of Humiliation’, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, 2008

 

ARTICLES – PAPERS – BOOK CHAPTERS

International Relations: Indo-Pacific, China & India

(SCROLL DOWN ↓ for “Orientalism – intercultural relations – interfaith issues”

• China’s calculative positioning in the Red Sea crisis, appearing in Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), April-May 2024
• The return of the Indo-Pacific, appearing in Asia Maior 2023, April 2024
• The strategic importance of the British Indian Ocean Territory, Evidence, Foreign Affairs Committee. Sub-Committee on Overseas Territories, 28 Feb. 2024
• The ‘Cold War’ in the Indo-Pacific, Interview, Opinio Juris, 23 Jan.; pub in Italian as La ‘Guerra Fredda’ nell Indo-Pacifico, Opinio Juris – Law & Politics Review, 6, April, 2024, 54-62.
• ‘Realism’ in India’s relations with China, China-India Brief, 239, 27 December-30 Jan. 2024, 7-12.
• India’s use of Buddhism: soft power, soft balancing, E-International Relations, 31 Aug 2023, 11 pp.,  ditto
• South Korea’s Indo-Pacific pivot strategy, PacNet, no. 14, 15 February, 2023; rep. Tilting to US, S. Korea ends era of ‘strategic ambiguity’, Asia Times, 17 Feb, 2023
• Canada’s recent naval deployments and power projection across the Pacific and beyond, ditto, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 20 Dec. 2022
• China-India and the geopolitics trap?, China-India Brief, 216, 25 Nov-15 Dec, 2022, 1-6
• Indo-Pacific strategies for Singapore and Taiwan: dealing with Major Powers, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, 5.7, Nov-Dec. 2022, 85-99.
• The UK and South Asia, in Ganguly and O’Donnell (eds) Routledge Handbook on IR of South Asia, Routledge, Oct., 2022, 369-382.
• Taiwan-Europe relations. Delegation diplomacy, Strategic Visions (TCSS), 11.53, September 2022, 10-15.
• Russian naval strategy for the Indo-Pacific,  Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 14 April 2022
• Missile race spirals between China and India, China-India Brief, 196, January 12-26, 2022, 3 pp
• Indo-Pacific positioning of the United States: evaluating dis/continuities, in Cannon/Hakata, eds, Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age, Routledge, Dec. 2021, 100-118.
• China-India relations, Lecture (Hanyuk University), 14 Dec.
• India-UK maritime security cooperation (Talking Points, 1.5 Maritime Security Dialogue, IISS/ORF), 6 October 2021
• India’s China challenge: foreign policy dilemmas, Journal of Indian & Asian Studies, 2.2, July-Sept. 2021, 1-21
• European contributions to Indo-Pacific maritime order, Issues & Insights (Pacific Forum), 21.13, Sept. 2021
• Intersections between Free and Open Indo-Pacific [FOIP] and other regional templates, in Basu (ed.) Brass Tacks: Unpacking the Indo-Pacific template (Global Policy, ORF), 13 July 2021, pp. 19-25.
• UK carrier capability returns to the Indo-Pacific, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), June 14 2021.
• JTMS-interview, re. Small islands strategies in the Indo-Pacific by large powers, 21 May 2021
• India’s China challenge, Presentation, Institute of Indian Studies (HUFS), 23 May
• UK relations with India; a ‘quantum leap’? , Britain’s World (Council for Geostrategy), 19 May 2021
• European contributions to Indo-Pacific maritime order, Presentation, Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Expert Working Group (Pacific Forum), 23 March 2021
• India: A partner for Global Britain? – bullet points, -> verbal elaboration, Henry Jackson Society, 17 February 2021
• India edges up against China in the South China Sea, China-India Brief, 175, Jan. 2021
• Small islands strategies in the Indo-Pacific by large powers, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, 8.1, Winter/Spring 2021, 66-85
• Indian strategy for the Indian Ocean: in the light of Covid-19 and confrontation with China at Galwan, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 24 Sept. 2020
• [China] Reaching for Mars, Strategic Trends: China (NDCF), July 2020
• Australia pivots to a core Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), July 2020
• [China] Energy breakthroughs in the South China Sea, Strategic Trends: China (NDCF), NDCF, June 2020
• India and Australia converge over the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), June 2020
• China trying to use Covid-19 to its advantage in the Indo-Pacific?, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), May 2020
• US repositioning to the “Indo-Pacific”: a paradigm shift, in Rossiter/Cannon, eds, Conflict and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. New geopolitical realities, Routledge, May 2020, 55-78
• Covid-19 disruption across the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), April 2020
• Modi, Trump and strategic convergence in the Indo-Pacific, PacNet, 17, 1 April 2020
• New Zealand picks up on the Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific Bulletin, 502, 17 March 2020
• Germany steps into the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), March 2020
• The Maldives slipping away from China towards India in Indian Ocean game play, China-India Brief, 154, Feb-March 2020
• The Raisina Dialogues: Naval convergence for the Indo-Pacific, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 20 Feb. 2020
• The India-Australia-Indonesia “minilateral”, Strategic Trends (NDCF), Feb. 2020
• China’s demographic challenge, Strategic Trends (NDCF), Feb. 2020
• Indonesia’s relations with China deteriorate in the South China Sea, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Jan. 2020
• A new India-Japan bond, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Dec. 2019
• Beijing secures diplomatic beachheads in the Pacific at Taipei’s expense, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 8.44, Dec. 2019, 10-15
• France and India push a new Indo-Pacific platform at Reunion, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Nov. 2019
• Civilizational clash in China-US relations. Globalization and culture lines, China’s World, 4.1 [Nov.] 2019, 28-42.
• Strategic geometry of the Indo-Pacific as the Quad steps up a notch, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Oct. 2019
• Indo-Pacific adjustments in the Indian-Russian relationship, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Sept. 2019
• Taiwan’s pivot to the Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific Review, 26.1 [Sept] 2019, 29-57
• France’s Indo-Pacific strategy: regional power projection, Journal of Military & Strategic Studies, 19.4 [Aug] 2019, 76-103
• The “Indo-Pacific” comes to Bangkok, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), August 2019
• China’s Indo-Pacific strategy: the problems of success, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, 6.2, Summer/Fall 2019, 94-113.
• The geoeconomics and geopolitics of Japan’s “Indo-Pacific” strategy, Asian Security and International Affairs, 6.2, August 2019, 136-161
• Indonesia grapples with the Indo-Pacific: outreach, strategic discourse and diplomacy, Journal of Current South-East Asian Affairs, 38.2, August, 2019, 194-217
• China looking beyond the Dalai Lama, Asia Dialogue, 30 July 2019
• South Korea’s Indo-Pacific harmonization, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), July 2019
• Naval deployments, exercises and the geometry of strategic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 8 July 2019; rep. as Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, Australian Naval Institute (ANI), 14 July
• French assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), June 2019
• The Maritime Silk Road and the US-India alternatives, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), May 2019
• Manila tilts back towards the US?, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), April 2019
• Going beyond the world. China reaches for outer space, China’s World, 3.2, 2018 (actual appearance April 2019), 77-92.
• Global Britain: Reaching for the Indo-Pacific, in Hemmings, ed., Infrastructure, Ideas and Strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Henry Jackson Society, April 2019, 48-51; also Remarks, Report Launch, 2 April
• Russia and a complex “Indo-Pacific”, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Mar. 2019
• Seeking stability [Indonesia’s Indo-Pacific Cooperation Concept], Strategic Vision (TCSS), originally scheduled 7.40 February, 20-25, but published 7.41, April 2019, 4-9.
• The Maldives. The joust between US, India and China, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Feb. 2019
• India converges with the US on the Indo-Pacific, to delicately “constrain” China, China-India Brief, 131, 23 Jan-15 Feb. 2019
• The US sets its sights for 2019, with China in mind (re. The Asia Reassurance Act), Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Jan. 2019
• The US Indo-Pacific Command makes its Indo-Pacific mark, with China in  mind, PacNet (Pacific Forum), 8 Jan. 2019
• The Tokyo Strategy: Japan and the Mekong countries invoke the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Trends: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Nov. 2018
• New Caledonia votes to retain French links and  France retains its Indo-Pacific geo-strategic position Asia-Pacific Bulletin (East-West Center), 14 Nov. 2018
• Putin’s pivot East, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 7.39 [November] 2018, 15-19
• The UK in the Indo-Pacific: challenges, choices and concerns, Presentation Paper (HJS), 1 Nov. 2018
• India’s Indo-Pacific discourse, in H. Pant, ed, New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy, Nov. 2018, 195-214
• UK Trans-Pacific Partnership membership, ditto, Public Consultation (Department of International Trade), 25 Oct
• The Indo-Pacific in US strategy: responding to power shifts, Rising Powers Quarterly, 3.2, October 2018, 19-43
• UK-India relations, ditto, Submission (House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee – ‘Global Britain and India’ Inquiry), 9 Oct. 2018
• The US and India strengthen “Indo-Pacific” cooperation, ditto, Strategic Trend: Indo-Pacific (NDCF), Sept. 2018
• Australia-US convergence on the “Indo-Pacific”: AUSMIN  2018, Asia-Pacific Bulletin (East-West Center), 437, 15 Aug 2018
• China and the internet: a world-wide web “with Chinese characteristics”, China’s World, 3.1, 2018, 26-43
• Summits and personal diplomacy transform dynamics on Korean peninsula, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 7.38, June 2018, 31-35
• China and the Baltic States: strategic challenges and security dilemmas for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Journal on Baltic Security (BDC), 4.1, 2018, 25-37
• Russia-China naval cooperation in an era of Great Power competition, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 12 June 2018
• Britain returns to the Indian Ocean?, Round Table. Commonwealth Journal for International Affairs, 107.3, 2018, 307-316
• Japan gathers allies in Indo-Pacific region to balance China’s rise, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 7.37, April 2018, 4-9
• India’s ‘Taiwan Card’ and China, China-India Brief, 112, 27 March 2018
• Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy … a pivot to the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 7.36, Feb. 2018, 27-31
• How Australia’s maritime strategy and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific upset China, Center for International Maritime Strategy (CIMSEC), 8 Jan. 2018
• Chinese maritime strategy for the Indian Ocean, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 28 Nov. 2017; rep. Maritime Security Review, Nov. 29, 2017; rep. Australian Naval Institute, 3 Dec. 2017;
• China’s ‘Belt and Road initiative’ – resetting the system, China’s World, 2.2, November 2017, 36-53
• Australia affirms proactive role in Indo-Pacific security architecture, Strategic Vision (TCSS), 6.35, Oct. 2017, 24-27
• China-India confrontation at Doklam: managing a border, managing a relationship, China-India Brief, 100, Sept. 2017
• Mr Trusk’s geopolitics and the ‘balance of threat’, European Geostrategy, 7 April 2017
• The ‘Dalai Lama Card’ in India-China relations, China-India Brief, 91, March-April 2017
• French maritime thought on the Indo-Pacific, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 31 March 2017;  rep., Australian Naval Institute, 2 April 2017
• Brexit, India and the future for UK diplomacy. A road to somewhere, International Affairs Blog (Chatham House), 25 Jan. 2017
• The rise of India: UK perspectives, International Affairs (Chatham House), 93.1, Jan. 2017, 165-188
• Buddhism in current Sino-Indian public diplomacy discourse, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45.3, Dec. 2016, 139-174
• Security discussions between China and India: a two-level logic, China-India Brief, 81, Oct 2016
• NATO and Japan: strategic convergence, International Politics, 53.3, 2016, 224-242
• China-India competition across the Indo-Pacific, Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 26 Apr. 2016
• China and India in BRICS – “some” cooperation?, China-India Brief, 72, March-April 2016
• India-China relations. Norms, perceptions and geo-politics, in C. Ogden, ed., New South Asian Security, Orient Blackswan, 2016, pp.1-34.
• Making sense of Modinomics [India’s economic diplomacy in South Asia], in Y. Chowdhury, ed., Narendra Modi and the World, Bloomsbury India, 2016, 3-8
• China gets rattled by India in the South China Sea,  China-India Brief, 69, Feb-March 2016
• Economic power shifts between China and India?, China-India Brief, 67, Jan. 2016
• China coming into the Arctic, Strategic Insights (Risk Intelligence), 61, Jan. 2016, 8-11
• India and the South Pacific: Fiji, PIF, IPIC and the China connection, Foreign Policy Research Centre Journal, 23, Dec. 2015, 155-167
• Triangular dynamics: Jaishankar on India, China and the US, China-India Brief, 61, October 2015
• The American pivot & China’s maritime power, in H. Pant/G. Kennedy, Assessing maritime power in the Asia-Pacific. The impact of American strategic rebalance, Ashgate, September 2015, 115-134
• India’s incremental balancing in the South China Sea, E-International Relations, 26 July 2015; rep. India Defence News, 1 Oct. 2015
• The Indian Ocean as “India’s Ocean: Geopolitics & geoeconomic drivers for the 21st Century, in D. Malone et al., eds., Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy, OUP, 2015, 466-480
• India’s new trilateral with Australia and Japan: China-centric nuances, China-India Brief, 54, July 2015
• China’s public diplomacy rhetoric 1990-2012: pragmatic image-crafting, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 26.2, June 2015, 249-265
• China’s ‘Maritime Silk Road’ initiative and its implications for India and its neighbourhood, Foreign Policy Research Centre Journal, 21.1, April 2015, 51-83
• Musical chairs in Sri Lanka for China and India, China-India Brief, 48, April 2015
• Holding the ring in Sino-Indian relations: Sushma Swaraj’s visit to China, China-India Brief, 44, Feb. 2015
• India-S. Korea strategic convergence & security-defense cooperation: a useful relationship in the Indo-Pacific, in L. Singh, ed, On South Korea-India Strategic Cooperation, Kyungnam University Press, 2014, 305-29
• India and international organisation: continuing vehicle for Great Power status, India at LSE, 22 October 2014
• India and the allure of the Indo-Pacific, International Studies, 49.3-4, 2012 [Sept. 2014], 165-188
• China-EU-China discourse on multipolarity and multilateralism: mutual interaction, European Foreign Affairs Review, 19.3, July 2014, 19-34.
• New horizons in EU-China relations? President Xi’s trip to Europe and the 2014 Policy Paper, EU-China Observer, issue 3, June 2014, 2-7
• China’s ‘Maritime Silk Road’ proposal – an uncertain chalice for India?, China-India Brief, 29, June 2014
• Trust, structure and Track-2 dialogue in the EU-China relationship: resetting a ‘strategic partnership’, Asia-Europe Journal, 12.1, Jan. 2014, 1-14
• India’s aspirations and strategy for the Indian Ocean, Journal of Strategic Studies, 36.4, 2013, 484-511
• Britain in Asia: rediscovery, and readjustment for post-imperial times, British Politics Review, Nov. 2013, 3-5
• Australia as a middle power: ambiguities of role and identity, Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 14.2, Summer/Fall 2013, 111-122
• Australia’s embrace of the ‘Indo-Pacific’: New term, new region, new strategy, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 13.3, Sept. 2013, 425-448
• India’s role in the South China Sea: geopolitics and geoeconomics in play, India Review, 12.2, 2013, 51-69
• Multipolarity-multilateralism … and beyond? EU-China understandings of the international system, International Relations, 27.1, March 2013, 30-51; rep in S. Breslin et al., China and the World, SAGE Publications, Sept. 2014
• Du droit à la politique dans le conflit territorial en mer de Chine meridionale [From law to politics in the South China Sea dispute], Eng. translation) in Mer de Chine méridionale : nouvel espace de crise? (Paris: Fondation Gabriel Peri, February 2013), 44-52
• Conflict irresolution in the South China Sea, Asian Survey, 52.6, Dec. 2012, 1019-1042
• The ‘Indo-Pacific’ – new regional formulations and new maritime frameworks for US-India strategic convergence, Asia-Pacific Review, 19.2, Nov. 2012, 85-109
• China-EU understandings of the international system: ‘multipolarization’, multilateralism … and beyond?, in Zhongqi Pan, ed., Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations: Global Governance, Human Rights & Strategic Partnerships, Palgrave,  2012, 187-201
• From law to politics in the South China Sea dispute, Paper (Conference, ‘South China Sea: New Space of Crisis’,  IRIS, Paris), 16 Oct. 2012, Youtube
• US strategy in the Pacific – geopolitical positioning for the 21st century, Geopolitics, 17.3, Aug. 2012, 607-628
• Soft language. soft imagery, and soft power in China’s diplomatic lexicon, in H. Lai/Y. Lu, eds., China’s Soft Power and International Relations, Routledge, April 2012, 39-63
• NATO and India: the politics of strategic convergence, International Politics, 49.1, Jan. 2012, 98-116
• Setting the scene; India’s relations with Pakistan; India and regional integration; India’s relations with the USA; Postscript; in Scott, ed. Handbook of India’s International Relations, Routledge, 2011, xix-xxviii, 59-69, 118-17; 322
• Sino-Indian territorial issues: the ‘razor’s edge’, in H. Pant, ed., The Rise of China: Implications for India, Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd, 2011, 197-220
• South Asia in China’s strategic calculus, in S. Breslin, ed., A Handbook of Chinese International Relations, Routledge, 2010, 217-226
• China and the ‘responsibilities’ of a ‘responsible power – the uncertainties of appropriate power rise language, Asia-Pacific Review, 17.1, May 2010, 71-95
• From Brussels to Beijing: Comparing the EU’s and China’s regionalism, in Kavalski, China and the Global Politics of Regionalization, Ashgate Press, 2009, 109-122
• L’Inde et la Chine se disputent les mers [India and China dispute the seas], Alternatives Internationales, 44, Sept. 2009, 10-14
• Nuclear breakthrough for the Indian Navy?, E-International Relations, 27 July 2009
• Environmental issues as a ‘strategic key’ in EU-China relations, Asia Europe Journal, 7.2, June 2009, 211-24
• India’s extended neighbourhood concept: power projection for a rising power, India Review, 8.2, April-June 2009, 1-37; rep in K. Bajpai & H. Pant, eds., India’s Foreign Policy. A Reader, OUP India, March 2013, 349-386
• Sino-Indian security predicaments for the 21st century, Asian Security, 4.3, Sept. 2008, 1-27
• The Great Power ‘Great Game’ between China and India – the ‘logic of geography’, Geopolitics, 13.1, Jan. 2008, 1-26
• India’s drive for a ‘Blue Water’ navy, Journal of Military & Strategic Studies, 10.2, Winter 2007-8, 1-42
• The 21st century as whose century? Pacific, China and Asia paradigms for the international system, Journal of World-Systems Research, 13.2, 2007, 96-118; rep [in Russian] Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta – Politologiya (Herald of Moscow State University – Political Science), No.1, 2010
• The EU-China ‘strategic dialogue’: pathways in the international system, in D. Kerr/F. Liu, eds, The International Politics of EU-China Relations, Oxford University Press, 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.

Orientalism ~ intercultural relations ~ interfaith issues

• India’s use of Buddhism: soft power, soft balancing, E-International Relations, 31 Aug 2023, 11 pp.,  ditto
• James and the ‘East’. Buddhism and Japan, in Marchetti, ed., The Jamesian Mind, Routledge, 2022, 333-343.
• Civilizational clash in China-US relations: Globalization and culture lines, China’s World, 4.1 [Nov.] 2019, 28-42.
• China looking beyond the Dalai Lama, Asia Dialogue, 30 July 2019
• Buddhism in current Sino-Indian public diplomacy discourse, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45.3, Dec. 2016, 139-174
• Kipling’s encounter with Buddhism and the Buddhist Orient: “the twain shall meet?, Cultural History, 1.1, 2012, 36-60
• Rohmer’s Orient: Pulp Orientalism?, ArchivOrientalni, 80.3, Dec. 2012, 1-27
• Kipling, Orientals: Orientalism reorientated, Journal of World History, 22.2, 2011, 299-328
• Manichaeism in Bactria: Political patterns and East-West paradigms, Journal of Asian History, 41.2, Summer 2007, 107-30.
• Rewalking Thoreau and Asia: Light from the East’ for a ‘very Yankee sort of Oriental’,(galley proof), 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
• Diplomats and poets. Power and perception in America’s encounter with Japan, 1860, Journal of World History, 17.3, September 2006, 297-337
• Nikitin’s conversion to Islam in India. A translator’s dilemma, Entertext: Journal for Cultural & Historical Studies & Creative Work (Brunel University), 1.3, 2001, 131-61
• William James and Buddhism: American pragmatism and the Orient, Religion, 30.4, 2000, 335-52
• The perennial message of the Goddess – enduring themes down the ages in Bactria, East & West, 45, 1998, 27-40
• 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