Sreeradha Datta

Joined IDSA
August 1999
Expertise
India’s neighbourhood policy; Bangladesh: Domestic and Foreign Policy; India’s Northeast Complexities; India and Myanmar’s bilateral relations;
Education
PhD, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Current Project
India’s Neighbourhood policy
Background
Prior to IDSA, she was Coordinator (Research) with South Asian Centre for Strategic Studies, New Delhi (1996-99) also the Editor, South Asia Watch (1997-1999). She has been recipient of the Kodikara Fellowship (1997); She was selected for International Visitors Leadership Programme, USA (2006); She is a regular participant in Indo-Bangladesh track II dialogues and also has been working on climate change and water security issues in South Asia.
Select Publications
Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh 2006-08 ( New Delhi: IDSA, 2009)
Changing Security Dynamics in Southeast Asia (Co-edited)(New Delhi: Magnum, 2008)
Bangladesh: A Fragile Democracy (New Delhi: Shipra, 2004).
The Northeast Complexities and its Determinants (New Delhi: IDSA/Shipra, 2003).
Islamic militancy in Bangladesh : The treat from within, in South Asia : Spectre of terrorism Ed. P R Kumaraswamy, Ian Copland (New Delhi) Routledge, 2008

Research Fellow
Email:- sdatta[at]idsa[dot]in
Phone:- +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Bangladesh’s Political Evolution: Growing Uncertainties

Unlike many Third World countries, Bangladesh has remained relatively stable and peaceful and escaped from major internal upheavals. While the democratic transition in 1991 was slow and painful, democratic change of governments has become the norm. Leaders are changed through ballots and not bullets and power oscillates between the two principal parties.

Published: April 2003
Strategic Analysis

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