How China's Presence in South Asia Shapes India's Indo-Pacific Policy

Speaker: 

Smruti S Pattanaik 

Dr Smruti S Pattanaik is a Research Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (MP-IDSA). She holds PhD in South Asian Studies from the School of International Studies, JNU and specializes on politics in South Asia and India’s policy towards its Neighbours and China in South Asia.
She was a visiting Asia Fellow at the department of International Relations, Dhaka University in 2004 and 2007, Kodikara Fellow in 1999, postdoctoral fellow at FMSH, Paris in 2008 and visiting fellow at PRIO in 2011, Fellow at the University of Hull in 2018. She was Visiting Professor on ICCR’s India Chair in Colombo University in 2013.
She was selected to attend the prestigious Symposium on the East Asian Security (SEAS) Program conducted by the US State Department and USPACOM in 2011. She has lectured extensively in India and abroad on India’s foreign policy and South Asia.

Dr Pattanaik has published more than 100 research articles and chapters on various aspects of politics in South Asia and have focused on India’s relations with its neighbours. She is the author of “Elite Perception in Foreign Policy: Role of Print Media in influencing Indo-Pak relations, 1989-99” (2004) and has edited three books titled “South Asia: Envisioning a Regional Future” (2011) and “Four Decades of India-Bangladesh Relations: Historical Context and Future Direction (2012), “Recounting the Memories of Bangladesh’s Liberation War: Why It Is Still Relevant” (Routledge, 2024);
She has also authored a monograph “Afghanistan and its Neighbourhood: In Search of a
Stable Future (PRIO-IDSA, 2014).

Moderators:

Raphaëlle Khan, The City University of New York (City College)
Johannes Plagemann, GIGA