Asia Maior
Asia Maior is a Italian think-tank concerned with Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, which applies a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Asian contemporary affairs by making use of social, political and historical perspectives. Asia Maior was born in 1989 from an idea of Professor Giorgio Borsa, the then doyen of the Italian scholars working on Modern Asia. Since 1990 Asia Maior has been publishing the yearly journal of the same name. Asia Maior, the think tank, has worked as an informal association up to 2006, when it became a formal association.