Gulshan Dietl

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Archive data: Person was Senior Fellow (ICSSR) at IDSA
Professor Gulshan Dietl is an ICSSR Senior Fellow affiliated to the IDSA. She retired as a Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she also served as the Director of the Gulf Studies Programme. She was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York (1993-94), a Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998-99), a Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir (2004), a Visiting Professor at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008), a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (2010) and a Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2012-13).
Her areas of teaching, research and research guidance are: 1. Theory and History of International Relations; and 2. Domestic Developments, Foreign Policies and Security Issues in the Gulf and West Asia with special reference to Democratization, Political Islam and Energy.
Her publications include The Dulles Era: America Enters West Asia (Lancer International, New Delhi, 1985), Through Two Wars and Beyond: A Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Lancer Books, New Delhi, 1991), Saudi Arabia: People, Politics and Policies (National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2006), Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations ( Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2007; Co-edited), and Democracy and Democratization in the Gulf (Shipra Publications, 2010; Edited).
She has contributed book-chapters and articles which have appeared in International Studies, Strategic Analyses, Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, The Hindu, Times of India, Iranian Journal of International Affairs, The South, Arabia, The Middle East, The Middle East International, Orient, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, India Quarterly, India International Centre Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, the COPRI Working Paper Series, the Gulf Studies Programme Occasional Papers Series among others.

Senior Fellow (ICSSR)
Email: dietl[at]hotmail[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

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US Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific: Implications for West Asia

White House has sought to assuage the West Asian states’ feelings that the ties with Asia-Pacific would not be at their expense. On the other hand, there are strong prescriptions from within the US calling for quietly downgrading involvement in the sorry mess of West Asia as the problems there can at best be managed, but never solved.

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Will Turkey be the new hub for gas?

Turkey’s natural gas reserves are 218 bcf and its production is roughly 27 bcf. It relies heavily on imports to meet its domestic demand. Additionally, Turkey positions itself as a gas transit hub – importing from Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Iran and re-exporting some of it to Europe.

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The Great Gas Game over Syria

New energy find in West Asia will set forth new political equations. Syria alone has discovered huge proven gas, oil and shale reserves. Whether the Assad regime survives or a change of regime happens there would determine the global gas system in a large way.

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India’s Iran Policy in the Post-Cold War Period

The article proposes to trace India's relations with Iran in the post-Cold War period, to identify the highs and lows in its contours and analyse the current situation. No country, however powerful, can formulate and implement its policy towards another in a total vacuum. India's Iran policy, as well as its foreign policy on the whole, reflects its domestic and external concerns and compulsions. India's need to secure its interests and broaden its options is unexceptionable.

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New Threats to Oil and Gas in West Asia: Issues in India’s Energy Security

Unlike other aspects of non-traditional security, energy security has been very closely linked with military security. Very often, it is the powerful state-consumers seeking to preserve an uninterrupted supply of energy at an affordable price, who threaten and use military force. At times, it is individuals and groups within the energy-producing countries seeking to resist energy-driven foreign interventions, who disrupt the supplies. The energy-military security nexus is at its peak in the present circumstances - mainly in Iraq, but also in the energy-rich West Asia.