Dr M. S. Prathibha is an Associate Fellow at the East Asia Centre in MP-IDSA. Her research interests include China’s Nuclear Policy, Strategic Force Modernisation, Chinese Views on War and Strategy, Chinese Foreign Relations and Chinese Civilisation and Philosophy. Currently, she is working on Missile Defence and China.
Dr Prathibha is a Member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Analysis (Routledge). She has published in journals in Strategic Analysis (Routledge), China Report (Sage), and various international publications. She had received the Human Resource Development (India) and China Government Scholarship and completed her fellowship at the School of Political Science and International Studies, Beijing Normal University from 2009-2011. She had also conducted field trips to China in 2015 and 2016.
Dr Prathibha had completed her PhD at the Chinese Studies Division of East Asia Centre in School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr Prathibha did her Masters in International Studies at Stella Maris College, Chennai. She won the Best Dissertation Award in her Masters.
She did her Bachelors in Mathematics at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.Her publications include: China and the Indo-Pacific: Contestations for Power and Nuclear Uncertainties, East Asia Military Monitor, March-April 2019 India-North Korea Relationship: A Case of Limited Aims and Strategic Calculations in Titli Basu (Edt), Major Powers and the Korean Peninsula: Politics, Policies and Perspectives”, KW Publishers, New Delhi 2019 Reform and Restructuring: Chinese Military in Transition in Jagannath P. Panda (ed.), “China’s Transition under Xi Jinping”, Pentagon Press, 2016 A Partnership of Mutual Expediency: China-Russia Relations in 2014 in Prashant Kumar Singh (Edited), “China Year Book 2014”, Magnum Books, 2014, New Delhi Nuclear Developments in China during 2013 in Navgal Jagota, “China Year Book 2013”, Magnum Books, 2013
