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Udai Bhanu Singh

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Archive data: Person was Senior Research Associate at MP-IDSA till April 2022

Udai Bhanu Singh was Senior Research Associate and Coordinator of the Southeast Asia and Oceania Centre at MP-IDSA. Along with former MP-IDSA Deputy Director General Rumel Dahiya, he is the author of Delhi Dialogue VII: ASEAN-India: Shaping the Post-2015 Agenda (Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2016), released in Kuala Lumpur in August 2016. He is also co-author of Delhi Dialogue VI: Realising the ASEAN-India Vision for Partnership and Prosperity. He has also authored ASEAN Regional Forum and Security of the Asia-Pacific.
Dr. Singh has published articles, book chapters and opinion pieces on Myanmar’s politics, Myanmar’s foreign relations, challenges to border management in Myanmar-India relations, role of the military in Southeast Asia, India-Vietnam Strategic Relationship, India’s Look East/Act East Policy, and India’s Strategic Engagement with Southeast Asia at the multilateral level (ADMM-Plus, EAS, ARF etc.), and India’s Asia-Pacific policy. His article, “The Significance of the ADMM-Plus: A Perspective from India,” was published in Asia Policy in July 2016.
Dr Singh taught a part-time course in Diplomacy at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi from 1995 to 1998. He is a Member of the Under-Graduate Board of Studies in Defence and Security Studies at Kurukshetra University. He has evaluated theses/dissertations for Jawaharlal Nehru University, and carried out evaluations for Jamia Millia Islamia and other universities.
From 1994 to 1998, he was responsible for bringing out MP-IDSA’s Southeast Asia news review. The news review was re-launched as Insight Southeast Asia (online) under him in March 2012. He also assisted (in his initial years at MP-IDSA) in bringing out the flagship journal Strategic Analysis. He was made the Coordinator of the Southeast Asia and Oceania Centre to focus on the emerging Indo-Pacific region. The Centre has attracted Visiting Fellows from ASEAN countries like Thailand and Singapore besides a Southeast Asia expert from India’s North-East. Dr. Singh was also the points person for organizing the MEA sponsored (India-ASEAN) international conference Delhi Dialogue VI (2014), Delhi Dialogue VII (2015) and Delhi Dialogue VIII (2016), in close collaboration with other Southeast Asian and Indian partner institutions.
Dr. Singh earned his PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in international relations (1994), and his BA Honours and Masters in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (1985). He completed a Certificate of Proficiency course in Bahasa Indonesia from JNU in 2003 and a conflict resolution course at the University of Oslo, Norway in 2010.
He has participated in Track-2 and 1.5 dialogues with Myanmar, New Zealand and Australia. He contributes to the media and has delivered lectures at academic and defence institutions in India such as National Defence College, Foreign Service Institute, Naval War College, as well as in foreign countries.

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Do the Changes in Myanmar Signify a Real Transition? A Response to the Debate

Myanmar's complexity makes it difficult to find agreement on its multiple facets. What makes it doubly confounding is that the country is passing through a phase of transition. My initial article on this transition has triggered some interesting responses. This shows how reality on the ground is variously interpreted depending on the background of the observer and the special expertise and experience they bring to bear on it. Approaching a subject as interesting as Myanmar from different angles hopefully succeeds in providing a multi-dimensional and more rounded perspective

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Two Decades of India’s Look East Policy: Partnership for Peace, Progress and Prosperity by Amar Nath Ram (ed.)

Two Decades of India's Look East Policy edited by Amar Nath Ram is a compilationof scholarly contributions by 12 former ambassadors, an eminent academic-diplomat, a maritime strategy expert and a journalist. As a diplomat who was, as it were, present at the creation, Ram is eminently qualified to comment on how the Look East policy (LEP) has evolved since it was formulated.

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Obama’s Visit to Myanmar

Obama’s visit strengthens the hands of President U Thein Sein and has raised expectation that it would encourage the Myanmar government to address the democratisation and ethnic challenges.

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Disaster Management in South-east Asia

South-east Asia is the epicentre of frequent disasters of varying intensity. The damage to life and property caused by these disasters is comparable to that caused by war. Disasters disrupt the national economy and social development. Besides, the world has shrunk and news about the hardship suffered by the people is rapidly disseminated. As such, the management of disasters has become a key concern of governments confronted with an increasingly aware civil society and a shorter reaction time.

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