Below is an incomplete list of book reviews by Kishan S Rana.

  1. Foreign Ministries: Change and Adaptation,
    ed. Brian Hocking, (Macmillan, London, 1999), The Book Review, 2001.Click here to download in PDF
  2. Expatriates in India,
    by Steffan Braasch. Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai (2000) Click here to download in PDF
  3. The New Mandarins: The Making of British Foreign Policy,
    John Dickie, (IB Tauris, London, 2004), Business Standard, 2005 Click here to download in PDF
  4. Buddha’s Warriors,
    Mikel Dunham, (Penguin, New Delhi, 2004), The Book Review, 2006. Click here to download in PDF
  5. The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century,
    RJ Barendse, (Vision, New Delhi, 2004), Business Standard, 2007. Click here to download in PDF
  6. Buddhism, Diplomacy and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400,
    Tansen Sen, (Manohar, New Delhi, 2004), The Book Review, 2007. Click here to download in PDF
  7. Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War foreign policy-making structures and processes,
    Justin Robertson and Maurice A. East (eds.) Click here to read the Review
  8. Memoirs of an Indian Diplomat,
    B S Das, (Tata-Mcgraw Hill, 2010) Business Standard, 23 September 2010. Click here to download in PDF
  9. The Ambassador’s Club: The Indian Diplomat at Large,
    ed. Krishna V Rajan, HarperCollins, Business Standard, 23 June 2012. Click here to download in PDF
  10. India’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing World,
    Muchkund Dubey Pearson, New Delhi, 2012, Business Standard, 13 November 2012. Click here to download in PDF
  11. Walking With Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past,
    K Natwar Singh (Harper Collins, New Delhi, 2013), Business Standard, 14 February 2013. Click here to download in PDF
  12. Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations,
    Daryl Copeland, (Lynne Reiner, Colorado, US, 2009), website of Prof. GR Berridge, 23 July 2013 Click here to download in PDF
  13. India-Pakistan Relations: 1947-2007: A Documentary Study,
    Avtar Singh Bhasin, Business Standard, 31 July 2013. Click here to download in PDF
  14. Non-Alignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century,
    Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran, Siddarth Vardarajan, Business Standard, 7 November 2013. Click here to download in PDF
  15. Stuff Happens: An Anecdotal Insight into Indian Diplomacy,
    Rajendra Abhyankar, (Har-Anand Publications, 2013), Business Standard, 8 January 2014. Click here to download in PDF
  16. Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific,
    C Raja Mohan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013, China Report, May 2014, Vol.50 (2) Click here to download in PDF
  17. Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying: Reforming Institutions,
    Arun Maira (Rupa Publications India, 2014), Business Standard, 11 June 2014. Click here to download in PDF
  18. Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat,
    Helen McCarthy (Bloomsbury, London, 2014), Business Standard, 11 August 2014. Click here to download in PDF
  19. China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa,
    Howard W French, (Knopf, New York, 2014), Business Standard, 12 November 2014. Click here to download in PDF
  20. What Diplomats Do: The Life and Work of Diplomats,
    Brian Barder, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), Business Standard, 15 January 2015. Click here to download in PDF
  21. China Goes Global,
    David Shambaugh, China Report, 51: 1 (2015). Click here to download in PDF
  22. India’s LAC of engagement,
    Deepak Bhojwani, Business Standard, 14 July 2015. Click here to download in PDF
  23. The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy,
    Emilian Kavalsk, Ed. China Report, 51: 2 (2015). Click here to download in PDF
  24. The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present,
    Dong Wang, China Report, 51: 2 (2015). Click here to download in PDF
  25. China’s Future,
    David Shambaugh (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2015) Click here to download in PDF
  26. India’s Relations with Indonesia,
    Navrekha Sharma and Baladas Ghoshal, Research Asia, Singapore, 2014; and
    Masala Bumbu: Enhancing the India-Indonesia Partnership,
    Gurjit Singh, ed. Beritasatu, Jakarta, 2015, Business Standard, (2016). Click here to download in PDF
  27. Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony,
    Business Standard, 2016. Click here to download in PDF
  28. China’s Future,
    David Shambaugh, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2015, China Report, 51: 3 2016. Click here to download in PDF
  29. Kautilya’s Arathashastra: An Intellectual Portrait: The Classical Roots of Modern Politics in India,
    Subrata K Mitra & Michael Liebig, Nomos, Baden-Baden, Germany (2016) Click here to download in PDF
  30. American Ambassadors: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Diplomats,
    Dennis C Jett, Business Standard, 12 October 2016 Click here to download in PDF
  31. The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy,
    Daniel A. Bell, China Report 52: 2 (2016) Click here to download in PDF
  32. Sinology in Post-Communist States: Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland and Russia,
    Chih-yu Shih, China Report 52: 4 (2016) Click here to download in PDF
  33. China’s Borders: Settlements & Conflicts: Selected Papers,
    Neville Maxwell, China Report 53: 2 (2017) Click here to download in PDF
  34. Population in China,
    Nancy E. Riley, China Report 53, 3 (2017) Click here to download in PDF
  35. The Arthaśāstra in a Transcultural Perspective: Comparing Kautilya with Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Michiavelli,
    IDSA and Pentagon Press, New Delhi, September (2017) Click here to download in PDF
  36. Assessing China’s Power,
    Jae Ho Chung, China Report 54, 1 (2018) Click here to download in PDF
  37. India-China Relations 1947-2000: A Documentary Study,
    Avtar Singh Bhasin, Geetika Publishers, New Delhi, 2018 Click here to download in PDF
  38. Xinjiang and the Chinese State: Violence in the Reform Era,
    Debasish Chaudhuri, China Report 54 : 3 (2018) Click here to download in PDF
  39. Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests,
    Krishnan Srinivasan, James Mayall, Sanjay Pulipaka Rowman & Littlefield, London, (2019) Click here to download in PDF
  40. Power & Diplomacy: India’s Foreign Policies during the Cold War,
    Zorawar Daulet Singh, Business Standard, 25 April 2019 Click here to download in PDF
  41. Understanding China’s New Diplomacy: Silk Roads and Bullet Trains,
    Gerald Chan, China Report 55 : 2 (2019) Click here to download in PDF
  42. Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests,
    Eds. Krishnan Srinivasan, James Mayall, Sanjay Pulipaka, Rowman & Littlefield, London, 2019, Business Standard, 5 December 2019. Click here to download in PDF
  43. Contours of A Volatile Relationship,
    The Book Review, February 2020 Click here to download in PDF
  44. The China – India rivalry in the globalization era,
    The Book Review, February/March 2020 Click here to download in PDF