I. Book
Reframing the Buffer State in Contemporary International Relations: Nepal’s Relations with India and China. Routledge. May 2023.
II. Edited book
III. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Small Island Developing States’ Use of Courts to Fight for Environmental Security.” Journal of East Asian Security (November 2025) (with J. Ricky Price and Christine Bianco).
“China’s Maritime Geoeconomic Strategy in the Western Indian Ocean Region.” Journal of Asian and African Studies (June 2025) (with Dharmendra Kumar and Angela Z. Gapa).
“Nepal’s Status‐Seeking Endeavors: Between Normative Convergence and Geopolitical Interests.” Politics and Governance, Volume 13: Novel Perspectives on Status in Global Politics (2024).
“What Is Innocent? Freedom of Navigation Versus Coastal States’ Rights in the Law of the Sea.” Ocean Development and International Law (October 2023) (with Christine Bianco and Zenel Garcia).
“Implementing Quality Matters in the Political Science Online Classroom.” Journal of Political Science Education (June 2021) (with Maria Gabryszewska).
“Constituting the Indo-Pacific: Securitization and the Processes of Region-Making.” International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 52, Nos. 1-2 (2021), pp. 15-34 (with Zenel Garcia).
“Dynamics of Rivalry between Geographically Contiguous Regional Powers: The Case of Sino-Indian Competition.” Asian Politics & Policy Vol.11, No.1 (2019), pp. 123-143.
“Southeast Asian Hedging and Indo-Japanese Strategies for Regional Balance: Managing China’s Rise.” The Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs Vol. 2, No.1 (2019), pp. 23-56. (with Zenel Garcia and Kevin Modlin).
“Disaster Relief as a Political Tool: Analysing Indian and Chinese Responses after the Nepal Earthquakes.” Strategic Analysis Vol. 41, No.6 (2017), pp. 535-545.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Border Minorities in China’s Foreign Relations with South Asia.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, (October 2017). Published online (with Lukas K. Danner).
“Power Politics and Securitization: The Indo-Japanese Nexus in Southeast Asia.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Vol. 4, No.2 (2017), pp. 310-324 (with Zenel Garcia).
“Implications of the Dragon’s Rise for South Asia: Assessing China’s Nepal Policy.” Strategic Analysis 40, No.1 (2016), pp. 26-40 (with Lukas K. Danner).
IV. Book Chapters
“India and the South China Sea” in Security Dynamics in the South China Sea: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Howard M. Hensel. Routledge, 2024.
“Sino-Indian Relations and EU Development Policies in Nepal” in EU Development Policies: Between Norms and Geopolitics? Edited by: Sarah L. Beringer, Sylvia Maier, and Markus Thiel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
V. Policy Papers
“Managing Regional Rivalries and Extraregional Interests as a Buffer State: The Nepalese Case Study“, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (January 2024).
VI. Discussion Papers
“Nepal and Regionalism: Convergence of Geo-economic and Normative Interests,” in Nepal’s Foreign Policy in a Changing World (eds. Pramod Jaiswal and Amit Ranjan), Institute of South Asia Studies (National University of Singapore) and Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement – South Asia Discussion Papers.
VII. Review Essays
“China’s Engagement with its Periphery.” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 4, No.2 (2017), pp.239-248.
VIII. Book Reviews
Stephen Naokes & Alexander C. Tan. “Asia-Pacific Small States: Political Economies of Resilience.” Pacific Affairs Vol. 97, No.2 (2024).
Bernard F.W. Loo. “Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States.” Small States and Territories Journal Vol. 6, No.2 (2023), pp. 209-10.
Andrew Small. “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics.” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 4, No.3 (2017), pp. 357-360.
Bhumitra Chakma. “South Asia’s Nuclear Security.” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Vol. 2, No.3 (2015), pp. 341-43.
T.V. Paul. “The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 38, No.3 (2015), pp.538-39.
IX. Other Publications
Re-situating the Buffer State in International Relations: Nepal’s Relations with India and China. E-International Relations, 2023.
Himalayan Geopolitics: Contemporary Analysis of Sino-Nepali Relations. E-International Relations, 2021.
With Yang Gyu Kim, Adam Ratzlaff, and Lana Shehadeh. Series: When Pawns Become Queens, Charged Affairs, 2019.
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