Nihar R. Nayak

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Dr. Nihar R. Nayak is Research Fellow with MP-IDSA, New Delhi. His areas of expertise are: political transition in the eastern Himalayan region, non-traditional security, soft power diplomacy, left wing extremism, and cooperative security in South Asia.

Dr. Nayak has a Ph.D in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was Visiting Fellow to the Peace Research Institute Oslo in June 2006 and July 2007. He did a special course on Peace Research at the International Summer School of Oslo University in 2007.

He has been Visiting Faculty at the Centre for the Study of Nepal, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University since 2011. He was Guest Faculty at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie from 2006 to 2011. He has both national and international publications to his credit including the book Strategic Himalayas: Republican Nepal and External Powers.

Dr. Nayak’s current research project is “Impact of Climate Change in the Himalayan Region: Security Implications for India”.

  • Research Fellow
  • Email:nayak[dot]nihar[at]gmail[dot]com
  • Phone: +91 11 2671 7983 Extn 7338

Publication

Strategic Himalayas: Republican Nepal and External Powers

  • Publisher: Pentagon Press
    2014

The ten years of Maoist insurgency followed by the political vacuum after the abolition of the monarchy and the delay in the drafting of the Constitution has given credence to the role of external powers in shaping the domestic politics in that country. The book examines the nature of external powers’ role during the political transition in Nepal since 2006. It analyses Nepal’s relations with external powers’ in the framework of ‘small and major powers’.

  • ISBN 978-81-8274-761-6,
  • Price: ₹. 995
  • E-copy available

  • Published: 2014