Meena Singh Roy

Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA till September 2020
Dr. Meena Singh Roy is a Research Fellow and heads the West Asia Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). Her areas of specialisation are Central Asia and West Asia. Prior to joining IDSA, she was a senior research scholar in the Department of African Studies, Delhi University. She was associated with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies and London School of Economics for her research work. In 2014, she was a visiting Research Fellow with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies’ (GIGA) Institute of Asian Studies.
Dr. Roy has published several peer-reviewed articles and papers focused on West Asia and Central Asia. She has also been involved in net assessment reports and strategic gaming on West Asia and Central Asia. She has published a monograph titled The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: India Seeking New Role in the Eurasian Regional Mechanism (2014), edited books titled International and Regional Security Dynamics: Indian and Iranian Perspectives (July 2009) and Emerging Trends in West Asia: Regional and Global Implications (2014), and completed the joint Delhi Policy Group-IDSA Task Force report on West Asia in Transition in 2015.
Her publications include:
India’s West Asia Outreach: High-Profile Diplomatic Dynamism- Vol 1 Issue 5 Special Issue: West Asia October-December 2018
External Powers and WANA: The US, Russia and China – Vol 1 Issue 5 Special Issue: West Asia October-December 2018
India and West Asia: Building Partnership through Active Diplomacy – Vol 1 Issue 5 Special Issue: West Asia October-December 2018
India’s Outreach to North Africa: Advancing the India-Morocco Partnership, West Asia Watch, Vol 2 Issue 1 January-February 2019

Detailed Profile

Research Fellow
E-mail: msinghroy[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Persian Gulf 2016-17: India’s Relations with the Region

Publisher: Pentagon Press
2018

The Persian Gulf-2016-17 is fifth in the series published by MEI @ ND and first in collaboration with the IDSA. It Examines India’s bilateral relations with the region and focusses on developments during 2015 and 2016. It gives a comprehensive account of the strategic, political, economic and cultural aspects of bilateral developments and also provides in depth analysis of internal dynamics of the Persian Gulf countries.

ISBN: 978-93-86618-19-1,
Price: ₹ 1295
E-copy available

Published: 2018
Book

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