Sanket Sudhir Kulkarni

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Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA
Sanket is a PhD Scholar with the National Institute of  Advanced Studies, Bangalore (NIAS). Currently he is pursuing his doctoral  research on India’s decision making on Cross Border Natural Gas Pipelines. As a  Visiting Fellow at IDSA, he would be exploring this subject in greater detail.  Earlier he has published and presented his research on India’s proposed cross  border natural gas pipelines. He is also undertaking research on comparative  analysis of Indian and Chinese cross border natural gas pipelines in their  respective neighbourhoods. At NIAS, along with his doctoral research, Sanket is  also involved as a Co-Principal Investigator in a project funded by South Asian  Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI) on the topic Cross Border Electricity Trade in South  Asia: Potential Assessment, Underlying Factors and Policy Options.  As a Co-Principal Investigator of this project, he is looking at the complex energy security decision making in South Asian countries and carrying out assessment of political and strategic factors influencing South Asian power trade prospects.

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Email:-sank[dot]kulkarni[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:-+91 11 2671 7983

Publication

India’s Decision Making on Cross-Border Natural Gas Pipelines (1989–2012)

In the last two decades, cross-border gas pipelines have become an integral part of discourse on India’s energy security. Successive reports from the government and the private sector have envisaged an important role for cross-border gas pipeline projects in India. After engaging in negotiations for several years, the Indian Government finally joined the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline over the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline (IPI) and the Myanmar–Bangladesh–India pipeline (MBI).

Probing a Sea option for Turkmen Gas

This fresh move on the Indian Prime Minister’s part is perhaps meant to signal to Pakistan that if the latter continues with its hostilities and political rhetoric towards India, then India and other countries may consider an alternative arrangement.