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Areas of Expertise
Political scientist by training her main
areas of interest are ethnicity, nationalism, minority rights,
multiculturalism in the context of Europe, politics of citizenship,
minority rights in new democracies of Eastern and Central Europe,
immigration and identity challenges, Islam and Muslims in Europe,
terrorism and Europe’s response at state and union level.
Summary
Dr. Bhaswati Sarkar is Assistant Professor
in the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She was earlier teaching in the erstwhile
Centre for Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies. In the Centre
for European Studies she is currently offering a course on Identity
Issues in Europe. She is also coordinating and teaching the
Research Methodology course in the Centre being taught by all faculty
members.
She did her doctoral and M.Phil research in
the Centre for Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies, School of
International Studies, JNU. She did her MA in Political Science from the
Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU.
In May 2008 she was at the Australian
National University, Canberra as a Visiting Fellow at the National Europe
Centre. During her visit she delivered a public lecture on “Revisiting
Citizenship in a Globalised World” at the Centre.
Dr. Sarkar has authored a book on
Balancing the Nation-State in Eastern Europe: The Hungarian Experience
and has participated in numerous national and international
seminars.
Books and Articles
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Bhaswati Sarkar, Balancing the
Nation-State in Eastern Europe: The Hungarian Experience (New Delhi:
Parrot Reads, 2004)
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Shashikant Jha and Bhaswati Sarkar,
eds., Amidst Turbulence and Hope: Transition in Russia and Eastern
Europe (New Delhi: Lancer’s Books, 2002)
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Bhaswati Sarkar, East-European Democracy
– An Adequate Response to Minority Questions? in Shashikant Jha and
Bhaswati Sarkar, eds., Amidst Turbulence and Hope: Transition in Russia
and Eastern Europe (New Delhi: Lancer’s Books, 2002)
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Bhaswati Sarkar and Shashikant Jha, “The
Hungarian Minorities in Eastern Europe: Issues and Concerns”
International Studies, vol.39, no.2, April-June 2002
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Bhaswati Sarkar, “Identities in Europe
and European Identity” in Rajendra K Jain ed., India and the European
Union: Building A Strategic Partnership(New Delhi: Radiant Publishers,
2007)
Seminars
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Participated in the Centre
seminar on, “The Politics of Terror: Prognosis for Russia and CIS” on 11
September 2002.
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Presented a paper on “CIS
What Ails it?”, in a National Seminar organized by the Centre for
Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies, SIS, JNU on “ CIS :
Politics and Economics in the Era of Globalisation”,27-28 March 2003.
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Presented a paper on ‘Nationalism
and the Russian Nation Building Experience’ in a seminar organized by
the Centre for Russian, Central Asian & East European Studies, JNU in March
2004 on ‘Understanding Systemic Transition in Russia and the CIS’.
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Presented a paper on ‘Nation
and Nationalism in Contemporary Russia’ in an international seminar
organized by the Department of Russian Languages, Ch.Charan Singh
University, Meerut (India), in March 2005 on ‘Russian Language Literature
and Culture Today’
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Presented a paper on ‘Central
Asia: All Quiet on the Ethnic Front?’ in an international seminar
organized by Centre for South-Central Asian Studies, G.N.D.University,
Amritsar (India), in March 2005 on ‘Emerging Socio-Economic and Political
Systems in Post-Soviet Central Asia.
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Presented a paper on ‘Building
Kazakhstan as Kazak Nation’, in an international seminar organized by Centre
for South-Central Asian Studies, G.N.D.University, Amritsar (India), in
February 2006 on ‘Emerging Socio-Economic and Political Systems in
Post-Soviet Central Asia’.
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Presented a paper on “German
Identity” in a national seminar on ‘India and Germany’ organised by the
Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, JNU on 7 April
2006.
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Presented a paper on “1956 in
Retrospect” in an international seminar on ‘The Hungarian Revolution of
1956: India and the World” organised by the Centre for European Studies,
School of International Studies, JNU, on 2-3 November 2006.
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Presented a paper on “Identities
in Europe and European Identity” in an international seminar on ‘India and
the European Union’ organised by the Centre for European Studies, School
of International Studies, JNU on 23-24 March 2006, subsequently published
in R.K.Jain ed., India and the European Union, New Delhi: Radiant
Publishers 2007.
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Presented a paper on “The
Difficulty of Differences” in an international seminar on “EU in
International Affairs” at Brussels organised by The Institute for European
Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), the Institut
d’Études Européennnes (IEE) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the
UN University programme for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS),
and the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations
24-26 April 2008.
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