Reena Marwah
SENIOR FELLOW
Dr Reena Marwah (M.Phil, PhD, India, International Business) is Professor, Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She is the recipient of several Awards and fellowships including the Asia fellowship of the Asian Scholarship Foundation. She has been a short-term consultant of The World Bank and UN Women. She was an ICSSR Senior Fellow, MHRD, Govt. of India, 2017 to 2019, during which her study was on Reimagining India-Thailand Relations. She has also been on deputation as Senior Academic Consultant, ICSSR, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for three years (2012ߝ2015) and continued, on behalf of ICSSR to coordinate/ lead the India-Europe Research Platform (EqUIP) till July 2017. She is the founding editor of Millennial Asia, a triannual journal on Asian Studies of the Association of Asia Scholars, published by Sage Publishers. Among her research interests are international relations issues of China, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand and India, and development issues of gender, globalization and poverty in South and South East Asia. In addition to several chapters and articles published in books/journals, she is author/ co-author of 6 books and co-editor of 8 books. Her latest book is (2021) China's Economic Footprint in South and Southeast Asia: A futuristic perspective (World Scientific Publishers, Singapore).
Uttam Kumar Sinha
SENIOR FELLOW
Dr.Uttam Kumar Sinha is a leading scholar and commentator on transboundary rivers, climate change and the Arctic. He is currently Co-Chair of the Think-20 Task Force on ‘Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda’ during India’s G20 Presidency.
After a brief stint in the print media and a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he joined the MP-IDSA in 2001, where he coordinates the Non-Traditional Security Centre and is the Managing Editor of Strategic Analysis published by Routledge, the institute’s flagship journal.
He is a recipient of many fellowships and leadership programmes including senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2018-2020); US-South Asia Leader Engagement Programme at the Harvard Kennedy School (2015); Chevening ‘Gurukul’ leadership at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008) and a visiting fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (2006).
His recently published work is Indus Basin Interrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru (Penguin, 2021). His other works include the Riverine Neighbourhood: Hydro-politics in South Asia (Pentagon Press, 2016) and Climate Change Narratives: Reading the Arctic (2014). His edited and co-edited volumes include Modi: Shaping a Global Order in Flux (Wisdom Tree, 2023); MODI 2.0: A Resolve To Secure India(Pentagon Press, 2021); The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s Foreign Policy (Wisdom Tree, 2016); Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses (Routledge, 2015); Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy (Routledge, 2015) and Emerging Strategic Trends in Asia (Pentagon Press, 2015).
Anuradha Oinam
SENIOR FELLOW
Dr Anuradha Oinam is an Assistant Professor at Imphal College, Imphal, Manipur. She completed her PhD from the Diplomacy and Disarmament (DAD) division of the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the topic ‘‘Weak States’ and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs): Case Studies of Afghanistan and Sierra Leone’. Her MPhil dissertation is on ‘Privatisation of Security in Contemporary International Relations: A Study of Motivations, Legality and Implications’. She also received the British International Studies Association (BISA) Founder Fund for PhD Scholar in 2019-20. Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies and the Foundation for National Security Research. In addition, she was a guest faculty, teaching Political Science at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi (NCWEB) for two months. She has done a project under the aegis of CLAWS on ‘Feasibility of India’s Act East Policy by Focussing Primarily on Connectivity’ by visiting three northeastern states viz Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram for twenty-one days. Her area of interest covers Changing Character of Warfare, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), India’s national security, specializing in insurgencies in the northeast region of India, India’s Neighbourhood Policy, India’s Act East Policy, and Myanmar.
Shagun Thapliyal
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Shagun Thapliyal is an Early Career Research focusing on the realm of International Relations. She holds a Masters Degree in Diplomacy, Law and Business from OP JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, India and a Bachelors Degree in History from University of Delhi, India. Her work focuses on often-overlooked aspects of global affairs and contemporary challenges to foster an understanding of the global dynamics and propose solution-oriented strategies. She has conducted independent research on the pillars of Soft Power such as sports, media, popular culture and the role and influence of international organizations, security alliances and regional groupings in maintaining global stability.
