Ph.D
Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies/ Southeast Asian Studies
21 years experience in research and teaching
Awarded the ASIA Fellows Award 2005-06 (Funded by Ford Foundation), and based as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta from April 2006 till January 2007. The work focused on the `Effects of Globalisation on Plural Societies: A Case Study of Indonesia’.
1. Awarded a joint collaborative grant by the Asian Scholarship Foundation with Professor Uttara Sahasrabuddhe, Department of Civics and Politics, Mumbai University on “India and Indonesia: Global Powers and Regional Politics”, in October 2009.
2.Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra from May 2005 to July 2005.
"Research Institutes as Diplomatic Actors", in Brian Hocking, Andrew Cooper and William Maley (eds.), Global Governance and Diplomacy: World’s Apart, Palgrave Macmillan: New York, June 2008.
Post-Financial Crisis Indonesia: The Challenge of Survival, Strategic Analysis, Vol. XXV, No. 6, September 2001.
East Timor and Kashmir: Questioning the Parallels on the Issue of Referendum (2000). Strategic Analysis, Vol. XXIV, No.2, May 2000.
From SLORC to SPDC: Political Continuity versus Economic Change in Myanmar (1998). Strategic Analysis, Vol.XXI, No.10, January 1998.
Cambodia since UNTAC: Deep Into the Quagmire (1997). Strategic Analysis, Vol. XXI, No.6, September 1997.
The Dynamics of Change in India-Southeast Asia Relations: Beyond Economics to Strategic Partnerships, in Namrata Goswami (ed.), India’s Approach to Asia: Strategy, Geopolitics and Responsibility, Pentagon Press Publishers, New Delhi, 2016.
Indian Ocean Region: Challenges to Regional Cooperation, in Gurjit Singh (ed.), Masala Bumbu: Enhancing the India-Indonesia Partnership, Beritasatu Media Holdings, Jakarta, 2015.
India and the Indo-Pacific: Semantic Change or Strategic Shift, in Gauri Khandekar (ed.), The EU-India Strategic Partnership: Facing the Foreign Policy Divide, Lenin Media, New Delhi, 2015.