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Names: Singh, Sinderpal, editor.
Title: Modi and the world : (re) constructing Indian foreign policy / edited by Sinderpal Singh.
Description: Singapore ; New Jersey : World Scientific, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017002275 | ISBN 9789813203853
Subjects: LCSH: India--Foreign relations--21st century. | Modi, Narendra, 1950
Classification: LCC DS449 .M628 2017 | DDC 327.54--dc23
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About the Contributors*
Manjeet Pardesi is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include Asian Security, Indian Foreign Policy (especially India-East Asia Relations), Great Power Politics, and International Relations in World History. He has published articles in India Review, Security Studies, Survival and Asian Security amongst others. He has a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MSc in Strategic Studies from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS, now the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
David Brewster is Senior Research Fellow at the National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He is also concurrently Visiting Fellow with the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Distinguished Research Fellow with the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne and Fellow with the Royal Australian Navy Sea Power Centre, Canberra. He has published widely on various aspects of the geo-politics of the Indian Ocean Region as well as on Indian foreign policy. His published articles have appeared in India Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of the Indian Ocean Studies and Asian Security, amongst others. He has also published single-authored and edited books on aspects of the Indian Ocean and Indian foreign policy.
Sylvia Mishra is Junior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India. She is working for the ORF Strategic Studies US Initiative. She tracks Indias foreign and defence policies, India-US relations as well as US policy in the Asia-Pacific. Sylvias research projects focus is on US domestic and foreign policies and the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region. She has been associated with several New Delhi and London based think tanks and has been selected as an emerging leader from India to participate in the Australia India Youth Dialogue in 2016. She is a regular columnist for The Huffington Post and has written for the East West Centre, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Crawford School of Public Policy ANU and The Diplomat.
Anthony Yazaki is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, Japan. He is a co-editor and co-author of Poised for Partnership: Deepening India-Japan Relations in the Asian Century (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is also conducting research on UN policies related to international development, humanitarian issues, and peace and security. Mr. Yazaki previously worked as a producer for the Washington, DC bureau of NHK News, where he covered the US State Department and American foreign policy.
P S Suryanarayana is Editor (Current Affairs) at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He has worked as a journalist for 35 years, holding several key positions with the Indian dailies, The Hindu and Indian Express. For over two-thirds of his 24-year career with The Hindu, he served with distinction as the newspapers foreign correspondent in diverse places like the Asia Pacific region (with Singapore as the base), Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He is the author of The Peace Trap: An Indo-Sri Lankan Political Crisis (Affiliated East-West Press: 1988) and Smart Diplomacy: Exploring India-China Synergy (World Century Press, 2016). In 2011, he wrote a book chapter on Indias Place and ASEANs Primacy in the New East Asia (in ASEAN matters! published by the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore).
S D Muni is Distinguished Fellow (Hon.) at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. For nearly forty years, he taught, conducted and supervised research, in International Relations and South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (19742006), National University of Singapore (20082013), Banaras Hindu University (198586), and University of Rajasthan (197273). He served as Indias Special Envoy to South East Asian countries on UNSC Reforms (2005) and represented Indias Minister of External Affairs at the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Paris Peace Conference, held in Phnom Penh, Kampuchea. He was also Indias Ambassador to Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (199799). Prof. Muni was nominated to the first ever constituted National Security Advisory Board of India during 199091. He was the founding executive member of the Regional Centre of Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and also served on the Executive Council of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India. In 2005 he was bestowed with Sri Lanka Ratna, Sri Lankas highest national honour for a foreign national. The Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka, Colombo, offered him affiliation as Honorary Distinguished Fellow in 2016. The Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he held the prestigious Appadorai Chair of International Politics and Area Studies, conferred on him the status of Professor Emeritus in 2014. Author and editor of nearly thirty books and monographs and more than 200 research papers, Prof. Muni was also the founder editor of two prestigious quarterly Journals in India,
