Chosen as a “China India Scholar-Leader Initiative Fellow (CISLI Fellow)” 2017 by the India China Institute, New School, New York, USA (one of eight chosen globally)
Chosen by the India China Institute, New School, New York, USA as the ‘2015 Emerging Scholar’ from India, for research on the India-China border dispute and the origins of boundary making
Recipient of the Inaugural “Centenary Visiting Fellowship” (nominated award), SOAS, University of London, UK, 2013-14
Delivered the Second Lecture of the “CFCS Young Scholars Lecture Series”, invited by the Center for China Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 27 April 2012
Recipient of the 2011 “President’s Award” at the IDSA [Conferred by the Defence Minister of India] for outstanding publication in an International peer-reviewed journal
Awarded the INLAKS Foundation Research Travel Grant 2009, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India
Diploma and Medal of Honor from Fu Hsing Kang College (Taipei), Taiwan
Awarded the ‘Ranojit Khanna Memorial Scholarship’ for the year 2000-01 by the Department of Economics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
Guli’s Children (2016; 43 minutes), has been written, shot, narrated and edited by Joe Thomas Karackattu. The non-fiction film deals with the cultural-diplomatic history of interaction between Kerala and China (12-15th century) & has been screened, on invitation, in China (Beijing & Shanghai), United States (NYU, SUNY Binghamton, DUKE & Yale University), NUS Singapore, Denmark (University of Copenhagen), France (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), apart from screenings across India (Calicut, Chennai, Kottayam, Mumbai, Delhi and Kochi). It has attracted attention for bringing out connections in human genealogy that survive between Kerala and China.
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2025; Ed with Justin Joseph and Ramnath Reghunadhan), Environmental Securitization in India and China, Palgrave Macmillan Singapore, ISBN 978-981-97-9159-0
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2013) The Economic Partnership Between India and Taiwan in a Post-ECFA Ecosystem, 2013, ISBN 978-81-322-1277-5, SPRINGER
Paper titled, ‘The transient history of Chinese convict workers in southern India: an appraisal of key contributions to plantation history and infrastructure-building in the Nilgiris (mid-19th century)’, Presented at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, March 15, 2025.
Invitational screening and academic interaction on my research film “Those 4 Years”, Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), September 22-23, 2024, Sharjah, UAE.
Paper titled, ‘Transportation History and the Circulation of Chinese Convict Workers to the Nilgiris (mid-19th century)’, presented at the ‘Materiality of Migration’ conference, VCUarts Qatar & Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, September 19th, 2024 , Qatar.
Presented a paper titled “Transportation history and the embeddedness of the ‘global’: a case-study on circulation of Chinese convict workers and plants to the Nilgiris in the mid-19th century” at the Global Asias Conference, March 31 – April 1, 2023, Penn State University.
Invited by the University of Pittsburgh for the screening of ‘Those 4 Years’ as part of the South Asia Lecture Series 2023, hosted by the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 3 April 2023.
Hosted by the India China Institute, New School, New York for an invitational screening of ‘Those 4 Years’ at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, 4th April 2023.
The Association of Asian Studies (AAS) selected the documentary ‘Those 4 Years’ as a part of their Annual Conference in Boston under the AAS 2023 Film Expo on March 18, 2023 followed by Q&A with the audience (joined online for the Q&A session).
Invited to present on the topic of ‘Taiwan, Democracy, and the Rule of Law and Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific’, at the Conference on ‘Securing the Taiwan Strait with the Indo-Pacific Tilt’, Henry Jackson Society, London, UK, 12th & 13th July 2022.
Paper presented on “Cartography and constructivism in the India-China boundary dispute” at Centre de recherché sur les économies, les sociétés, les arts et les techniques (CRESAT), Université de Haute-Alsace, France, 20-22 May, 2019.
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2025; with Ashna Joy), “Ideational Shifts and Recurring Complications: A Diplomatic History of Territorial Claims Between India and China in Ladakh”, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Taylor and Francis, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2025.2449881
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2024; with Ramnath Reghunadhan), The Great Reset and the Near-Term Implications for the Chinese Economy: A Post Pandemic Outlook, Volume 13, Issue 25, Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy and International Relations, pg 96-117
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2023; with Athira A), “China’s Maritime Links with Medieval Kerala: An Examination of the Vadakkanpāttukal and Recovered Chinese Artefacts”, Histories of People and Place, Taylor and Francis,Routledge, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/28334299.2023.2287498
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2023; with Joseph J), “Public protests and environmental policy-making: The cases of Xiamen anti-paraxylene protests in China and the civic movement against Kodaikkanal mercury poisoning in India”, Volume 13,Issue 1, Risk, Hazards, & Crisis in Public Policy (RHCPP), Wiley
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2022; with Joseph J), “State actions and the environment: examining the concept of ecologicalsecurity in China”, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Springer Nature, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-021-01982-0
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2022; with Joseph J), “New Media Activism and Politics of Ecology in the People’s Republic of China”, China Report, SAGE, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00094455221080320
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2021; with Reghunadhan R), “Parsing the Evolution of China’s Intellectual Property Governance and Protection Using a Mixed-Methods Approach”, Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations 7(3), Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2020), “The corrosive compromise of the Sino-Indian border management framework: from Doklam to Galwan”, Asian Affairs, Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA), Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 51, no. III, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2020.1804726
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2019), “The Case for a Pragmatic India-Taiwan Partnership,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 2019.
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2018) “India–China Border Dispute: Boundary-Making and Shaping of Material Realities from the Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Cambridge University Press, 28 (1), 135-159.
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2017) “India-China Border Dispute: A Historical Enquiry on the Political Selection of Boundary Lines”, ISAS Insights, No. 433, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2017), “Pursuing spatial agglomeration economies at the India-China border regions”, Journal of comparative politics and global governance (bijiao zhengzhi yu quanqiu zhili), Vol.2, July 2017, Political Science Institute, East China University of Political Science and Law Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publisher
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2016) Assessing Sino-Indian Economic Relations in an Interdependence Framework: 1992-2008, Economic and Political Studies, Taylor & Francis, 3:1, 129-159
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2015) “The US pivot and rebalancing in Asia: an economic assessment”, in The US Rebalance and the Asia- Pacific Region, Centre for Public Policy Research, 2015, ISBN 978-81-930004-2-7
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2013) “India–China economic relations: trends, challenges and policy options”, ICS Occasional Paper # 6, December 2013, The Institute of Chinese Studies
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2013) India–China Trade at the Borders: challenges and opportunities, Journal of Contemporary China, Taylor & Francis, 22:82, 691-711
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2012) “Post-ECFA Outlook for the relationship across the Taiwan Strait”, Issues & Studies, Vol 48, No 4, December 2012
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2012) “South Asian trade: Where does China fit in?”, South Asian Journal, Vol 37, July 2012: pp 91-114, Lahore, Pakistan
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2012) “‘Social Capital’ and its Significance in Reimagining Chindia”, Strategic Analysis, January 2012, Volume 36, No 1, pp 23-29, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2012) Review Essay of China, India And Beyond: Development Drivers and Limitations by Natalia Dinello and Wang Shaoguang (eds; 2009), Global Development Network Series: Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, in China Report, 2012, Vol 48, No 1&2, pp 219-223, SAGE
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2012) “China’s economic growth: Retrospect and Outlook” in China Yearbook 2011, New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, April 2012
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2011) “China’s response to the global economic crisis: An Indian perspective”, China Public Administration Review, Volume 11, 2011, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, China
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2011) “Democracy and Economics in Taiwan” in Daniel Stockemer (ed; 2011), Democratization Around the World: New Insights from South East Asia, Turkey, Kosovo, Taiwan and Ghana [Hardcover], New York: Edwin Mellen Press, pp 109-139, USA
Joe Thomas Karackattu (with Jiyong Jin; 2011), “Infectious Diseases and Securitization: WHO’s Dilemma”, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, June 2011, Vol. 9, No. 2: 181-187, USA
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2009) “Fighting the recession: the Elephant and the Dragon”, South Asian Studies Quarterly, No 137: 2, April-June 2009, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2008) “The 2008 Referendum: A Test for Cross-Strait economic interdependence”, China Report, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan-March), 2008, SAGE Publications
Joe Thomas Karackattu (2017) “India and China: Getting strategy and timing right”, October 24 – November 14, 2017, China-India Brief #104, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Compiled Overview of glaciers, glacier retreat and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China, WWF Nepal Program, International, 70 p., illus. incl. 14 tables, 202 ref., March 2005
“Capturing the ‘market’ for recreation: Estimating entry charges for the Margalla Hills National Park in Pakistan, SANDEE Policy Brief No 5-04, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, October 2004
“Participatory Forest management: Collective Action Under Three different Institutional Regimes”, SANDEE Policy Brief No 3-04, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, August 2004
“Tank degradation and poverty reduction – the importance of common property resources in sustaining the rural poor”, SANDEE Policy Brief No 2-04, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, June 2004
“Overview of Power Relations in East Asia”, Taiwan Perspective E-Letter, Issue No. 181, Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan, 2011/03/18, URL: http://www.inpr.org.tw/epaper/edm_show_a.php?sn=57
