International Relations Theory, Identity Politics and Political Violence, Gender Studies, South Asian Politics with a special focus on Pakistan & the Kashmir conflict.

Theories of International Relations (M.A. Compulsory Paper) - (2009 & 2010)

Co-teacher

Contemporary International Politics (M.A. Optional Paper) - (2009 & 2010)

International Political Economy (M.A. Compulsory Paper) - (2009-2010)

Co-teacher.

At Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Conflict Analysis (M.A Compulsory Paper) - (2007)

Key Conflicts in South Asia (M.A Compulsory Paper) -  (2008)

At Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

Reader, International Relations

Research Methodology (M. Phil Compulsory Paper) - (2004 & 2006)

Co-teacher.

Changing Dimensions of International Security (M. Phil Optional Paper) - (2004 & 2006)

Global Political Economy (M. Phil Optional Paper)   - (2002-03)

Theory of International Relations (M.A. Compulsory Paper)  - (2002-06)

International Political Economy (M.A. Compulsory Paper) - (2003-04, 2006)

Co-teacher.

Pakistan and the World (M.A. Optional Paper) - (2002)

Contemporary International Politics (M.A. Optional Paper) - (2003-04, 2006)

International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Global Conference on “Communicating Peace,” at University of Sydney, Australia, July 2010. Plenary Lecture: “Human Security: Contributions from South Asia.” [Chair: Frans Verghan] & Book Launch of Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropocene, at the same event with my talk on “The Security Problematique in South Asia: Alternative Conceptualizations.”

Talk on “Gender, Conflict and Forced Migration: Sharing Experiences from South Asia,” at University of Bologna, Italy, April 2010.

Dr Kamala Aravind Endowment Lecture on “Re-imagining International Relations in India,” at the Stella Maris College, Chennai. February 2010.

South Asia: Conflict, Culture, Complexity and Change, The 2010 Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium organized by The Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, Boston (USA). February 2010. Panel: “Kashmir: Reclaiming Paradise Lost.”

Talk on “Pakistan-Perspective in Changing Regional Environment and Internal Imbalances” at the Army War College. Mhow. August 2009.

Inception Workshop on Supporting Network of Research Institutes and Think Tanks in South Asia, Asian Development Bank, Bangkok, September 2008. Paper: “SAARC & Beyond:  Civil Society and Regional Integration in South Asia.” [Chair: Bruno Carrasco]

Participated in a Panel Discussion on “Dialoguing Peace in Kashmir,” Public Service Broadcasting Trust, New Delhi, August 2008.

Participated in the Ist Annual IISS-CITI India Global Forum at New Delhi, April 2008.

Refresher Course in Political Science, Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, February 2008. Presentation: “Political Institutions and Democratization in Indian Politics”.

Talk on “Norms or Exceptionalism: Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir”, at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, January 2008.

Situation in Jammu and Kashmir and Contours of Future Strategy, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi. January 2008. Paper: “Contours of Future Strategy in Kashmir.” [Chair: N.N. Vohra].

Discussant for the session on “International Terrorism” at the Second Foreign Policy Dialogue between Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and International Institute for Strategic Studies. December 2007.

Globalisation and the State: Issues and Impacts, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia. December 2007. Paper: “Revisiting Westphalia in a Globalizing World.” [Chair: Achin Vanaik].

Chaired two panels on “Global Justice” in the Third International Congress of Asian Political and International Studies

Association on Conceptions of Justice in Asia, Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), Jamia Millia Islamia and Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. November 2007.

Refresher Course on Peace and Conflict Resolution, UGC Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia. September 2007. Presentation: Involving the Stakeholders: South Asian Experiences in Conflict Resolution.

Participated in a Track-II Dialogue on “Indo-Pak Relations,” organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Singapore. August 2007.

Participated in a Workshop on “Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges”, Henry L. Stimson Centre, Singapore. July 2007.

“Consolidating Peace and Sustaining the Improved Security Scenario in Jammu & Kashmir,” organized by The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and J&K Police at Srinagar. May 2007. Paper: “Recapturing the Spirit of Article 370 in the Indian Constitution and the Federal Structure in Jammu & Kashmir. [Chair: Ambassador Lalit Mansingh].

7th IISS South Asia Security Conference on “Islam, Politics and Security in South Asia” organized by International Institute of Strategic Studies at Muscat. April 2007. Presentation: “Jihad in Kashmir.” [Chair: Sir Hillary Synnott].

India Re-Making the State: Conflicts and Peace Processes in South Asia, Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia. March 2007. Paper: “Reflections on the Kashmir Peace Process between India and Pakistan.” [Chair: Radha Kumar].

Talks/seminars around my Kashmir book entitled Demystifying Kashmir at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Council on Foreign Relations, New York and International Institute of Strategic Studies in January-February 2007.

Invited to participate in a “Capacity Building Workshop on Research, Training and Administration in Asian Universities,” organized by Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), October 2006.

Panel Discussion on “Pakistan – the Internal Dynamics,” at National Defence College, New Delhi. August 2006.

Workshop on Forced Migration, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. September 2006. Presentation: “Gender Dimensions of Forced Migration.” [Chair: Rashmi Doraiswamy].

Envisioning South Asia, South Asian Free Media Association, Islamabad (Pakistan). April 2006. Paper: “Involving the Stakeholders: Key to Developing South Asian Conflict Resolution Mechanisms.” [Chair: Moonis Ahmar].

International Relations Theory and South Asia, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi. March 2006. Paper: “Unraveling Enmity: Constructing Humane Spaces in India-Pakistan Relations”. [Chair: Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, Social Science Association (Colombo)].

India and Pakistan: Understanding the Conflict Dynamics, Pakistan Studies Programme, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. April 2007. Paper: “Multiple Voices and Fractured Spaces: Jammu and Kashmir Across the Line-Of-Control.” [Chair: Amitabh Mattoo].

Politics, Policy and Responsible Scholarship, 47^th Annual Convention of International Studies Association, Chicago (USA). March 2007. Panel: Post-Hegemonic Scholarship I: Alterity, Constructions of Self and Other, and Order. Paper: “Plurality versus Uniformity: Indian ‘Ways of Knowing’ and Problematiques of Modern IR” [Chair: David Blaney]

World of International Relations Scholarship: Geo-cultural Epiestemolgies

This project explores why, despite powerful allegations that the field of international relations is indifferent to scholarly practices and policy issues outside the West, and even disdainful of them, few contributions from the non-core have been successful in gaining recognition as legitimate sources of IR knowledge. It aims to explore non-core concepts and theories that speak to many of the discipline’s current concerns as well as to those that hegemonic scholarship should be speaking to but doesn’t. The central idea is to identify potential footing for a post-hegemonic IR that is sensitive to the political and social implications of knowledge production in the field, and therefore receptive to new objects and sources of international relations knowledge emerging from a myriad of different locations. 

This project is spearheaded by Ole Waever (University of Copenhagen) and Arlene B. Tickner (Universidad de Andes).

My paper on “South Asia: A ‘Realist’ Past and Alternative Futures” is being published in the first volume of a three-volume series on World of International Relations Scholarship: Geo-cultural Epiestemolgies. I am now working on my paper on “Plurality versus Uniformity: Indian ‘Ways of Knowing’ and Modern IR”, which will be published in the second volume. Routledge, UK is publishing the series.

Why There is No Non-Western Theory: Reflections on and from Asia.

This project aims to introduce Western IR audience to non-Western traditions and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised. To the Asian audiences, the project poses the challlenge of why there is so little distinctive non-Western theory, and shows what resources are available to redress this imbalance. It also opens up a cross-cultural perspective on how and why thinking about IR has developed the way it has. 

Barry Buzan (London School of Economics) and Amitav Acharya (University of Bristol) are leading the project. It is jointly sponsored by the Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and the Institure of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological University.

My paper titled “Re-imagining IR in India,” was published as a Special issue of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, an Oxford Journal published from Tokyo. The same is being re-published in a volume edited by Amitav Acharya and Barru Buzan that is titled Why There is No Non-Western IR Theory and will be published by Routledge, UK. 

Re-conceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

This project reconceptualises security since the end of the Cold War from dif­ferent scientific disci­plines and regions, from North and South. It involves more than 100 experts who would assess the systemic, cultural, religious and spatial context of security in the 21^st century, focusing on the referents (individual, society, state, region, global/planetary), major disciplines (philosophy, sociology, interna­tional law, economics, political science, international relations, security studies, peace research), dimensions (military, political, economic, societal and environmental), analysing climate change, desertification, water, population, urbanisation, food, hazards and migration as new security issues and sectoral (energy, food, health, water and livelihood) security concepts with a special focus on debates on environmental and human security.

This project was initiated in September 2004 and is supported by the European Union’s initiative on Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. Hans Günter Brauch is the lead coordinator and others include Prof. Behera, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Béchir Chourou, Ursula Oswald Spring, P. H. Liotta, and Patricia Kameri-Mbote. Two large reference volumes have been published by Springer-Verlag in 2007 and 2009. First volume titled Facing Global Environmental Change and Globalization: Re-conceptualizing Security in the 21st Century was published by Springer-Verlag in 2007 and the second volume titled Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health, and Water Security was published in 2009. I am co-editor of these volumes.

Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow at University of Bologna, Italy and Central European University, Budapest as part of the GEMMA consortium, Summer 2010.

Invitee for Scholar-in-Residence Programme at Stella Maris College, Chennai, February 2010.

Special Invitee, European Commission Visitors Programme, 2008

Asia Fellowship, Asian Scholarship Foundation (Bangkok), August 2005.

Visiting Fellowship, Brookings Institution. October 2001-June 2002.

Kodikara Award, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies. 2000.

Visiting Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 1997-January 1998.

Nehru Centenary Fellowship by Government of India for Ph.D. 1990-1993.

Regional Editor, Contemporary South Asia (Routledge), 1997-

Member, Editorial Board, Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations (Routledge), 2007-

Theoretical Perspectives: Journal of Social Sciences and Arts (University of Dhaka), 2000-

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Peace Research and European Security Studies (Arbeitsgruppe Friedensforschung Und Europaische Sicherheitspolitik), 2005-