Archive data: Person was Associate Fellow at MP-IDSA
Arpita Anant was an Associate Fellow at MP-IDSA. She joined the Institute in 2007 and was associated with the Internal Security Centre until 2012. Based on field study, her research focussed on the transition in the state of Jammu and Kashmir from a period of high levels of turmoil due to terrorism during the 1990s. Dr Anant’s current area of research is India’s multilateralism at the United Nations with particular focus on peacekeeping, terrorism and sustainable development. She also does research on China and global governance. Dr Anant is the Associate Editor of Africa Trends: A Quarterly News Magazine. She has also been a member of the website editorial team and has contributed to the UN section of IDSA’s The Week in Review.
Awarded a PhD in International Politics in 2004 by the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her doctoral thesis was on Group Rights in the Indian and International Discourses. She was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship (Canada) during 2001-02 to undertake doctoral research. She has worked as a researcher at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi (1999-2000), Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai (2004-05) and the National Centre of International Security and Defence Analysis (NISDA), University of Pune (2005-2007).
Dr. Anant has several refereed and non-refereed publications. Some among them are: “Global Governance and the Need for ‘Pragmatic Activism’ in India’s Multilateralism”, Strategic Analysis, Vol 39, Issue 5, September 2015, pp. 488-499; “China in Global Economic Governance: Cautious Debut, Confident Journey”, in Jagannath P. Panda (ed.), China’s Transition Under Xi-Jinping, China Yearbook 2015, New Delhi, Pentagon Press, pp. 188-203; “China and the United Nations”, in Prashant Kumar Singh (ed.), China Yearbook 2014, New Delhi, Magnum Books Pvt Ltd, 2014, pp. 131-146; Beyond Stereotypes: Contours of the Transition in Jammu and Kashmir, IDSA Monograph No. 16, April 2013; “India and International Terrorism”, in David Scott (ed.), A Handbook of India’s International Relations, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 266-276; Counterinsurgency and ‘Op Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir, IDSA Occasional Paper No. 18, October 2011; “Identity and Conflict: Perspectives from the Kashmir Valley”, Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue No.5, 2009 pp. 760-773. She is the editor of Non-State Armed Groups in South Asia: A Preliminary Structured Focused Comparison, New Delhi, Pentagon Security International, 2012.
Associate Fellow
Email: arpita[dot]anant[at]gmail[dot]com
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