Namrata Goswami
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Joined IDSA
April 2006
Expertise
International Relations Theory, Ethnic and Intra-State Conflicts, Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution
Education
MA (Politics and Administration), Pune University
Masters Diploma (Journalism and Communications), Symbiosis Institute of Journalism and Communication, Pune
PhD (International Organization), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Current Project
International Security Audit: Great Power Cooperation or Competition
Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and the Indian State's Response
Background
Dr. Goswami completed her doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2005 on the topic "Just War Theory and Humanitarian Intervention: A Comparative Case Study of East Pakistan and Kosovo." Dr. Goswami was a Visiting Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway from 2007 to 2010, a Visiting Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2009, and a Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, 2010. In 2012, Dr. Goswami has been awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellowship and the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship.
Select Publication
- “Escalation and De-escalation of Violence in Insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India”, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 24/1, 2013, forthcoming.
- Editor, Imagining Asia in 2030: Trends, Scenarios and Alternatives, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2011.
- “China’s Territorial Claim on India’s Arunachal Pradesh: A Response to Changing Power Dynamics in Asia”, Strategic Analysis, 35/5, September 2011, pp. 781-792.
- “Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and the Indian State’s Response: Limits on the ‘use of force’ and the ‘notion’ of proportionality, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, University of Heidelberg, Working Paper No. 60, March 2011, pp. 1-27.
- “India’s North East 2020: Four Alternative Scenarios”, IDSA Occasional Paper No.13, 2010.
- “India’s Counter-Insurgency Experience: The ‘Trust’ and ‘Nurture Strategy”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 20/1 (March 2009) Routledge, London, pp.66-86.