Saurabh Mishra

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Saurabh Mishra is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses since February 2011. He has done his Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, on “Globalisation and Transnational Conflict: In the Context of Expansion and Cultural Homogeneity”. He earned his Masters and Undergraduate degrees from the same university in 2006 and 2004, respectively. He received the Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission (India) in 2008. His areas of interests are Globalisation, Peace and Conflict, International Institutions, Indian Foreign Policy, and International Relations Theory. At IDSA, he has worked primarily on India and United Nations, and issues regarding Africa. He is associated with the Indigenous Historical Knowledge Project at the institute, and has co-edited three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary”. He is also a co-editor and contributor to thebook titled “The Arthasastra in a Transcultural Perspective: Comparing Kautilya with Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Machiavelli, a product of a collaborative project between IDSA, Heidelberg University and National University of Singapore. He has written articles and commentaries regarding India’s voting behaviour in the UN Security Council, the Kenyan case in the International Criminal Court (ICC), UN-AU cooperation, etc.

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Publication

Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary (Volume II)

  • Publisher: Pentagon Press
    2016

This book is the second in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. These volumes aim at initiating the study, internalisation, spread and consolidation of Kautilya's Arthashastra in the strategic domain. The four focus themes in the three volumes are foreign policy, intelligence, war and internal security as they relate to contemporary times.

  • ISBN 978-81-8274-866-8,
  • Price: ₹. 695.00
  • E-copy available

  • Published: 2016

Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary (Volume I)

  • Publisher: Pentagon Press
    2015

This book is the first in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshop, national and international seminars organised by the institute. The project is an attempt to trace, look into, analyse and relate with the indigenous strategic thinking in India. These volumes aim at initiating the study, internalisation, spread and consolidation of Kautilya’s Arthashastra in the strategic domain. The four focus themes in the three volumes are foreign policy, intelligence, war and internal security as they relate to contemporary times.

  • ISBN 978-81-8274-849-1,
  • Price: ₹. 695.00
  • E-copy available

  • Published: 2015

BRICS Summit and ICC Warrant against Putin

The controversy regarding President Vladimir Putin’s participation in the BRICS Summit at Johannesburg due to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court highlights the geopolitical overtones and inadequacies of the ICC in the contemporary world.

Comparing ‘Boko Haram’ and the ‘Islamic State’

Essentially local Islamist extremist groups such as the Boko Haram, which thrive on the domestic social and economic deprivations, seem to be moving towards collaboration with international Islamist groups. This phenomenon is not new, considering the links of Somali groups with the Al-Qaeda.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Boko Haram has recently emerged as one of the deadliest and most brutal terrorist groups with links to the global jihadi movement. The group is grounded in a region where it can tap into ethnic ties and take advantage of weak security environment, generic condition of lawlessness and socio-economic marginalization.

African Countries and the UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka

The vote reflected a geopolitical contest wherein the West still has considerable influence and the Chinese influence is on the rise. The discussion and the voting pattern of the African countries also revealed their deep sense of resentment at the West for using the issue of human rights as an excuse against them.

The Kenya-ICC Standoff

Uhuru Kenyatta's election as the president of Kenya is important both with respect to the Kenyan internal politics and the larger implications for the legal regime of the International Criminal Court. It remains to be seen that who will bring justice to the families of the dead and displaced after the 2007-08 post election violence.