Smruti S Pattanaik

Joined IDSA

April 1998

Expertise

South Asia: Military and Politics in South Asia; Issues of Nationalism and National Identity in South Asia

Education

PhD, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Background

Worked as Research Officer in IDSA. Received Kodikara Fellowship in 1999 funded by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo. The study is published under the title "Elite Perceptions in Foreign Policy: Role of Print Media in Influencing Indo-Pak Relations, 1989-99" (Manohar: Delhi, 2004). Received Asia Fellowship 2003-2004, administered by the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok and funded by the Ford Foundation. Research topic was "State Formation in South Asia: Role of Identity and Nationalism in the Making of Bangladesh." One of the Founding Members of the South Asia Association of Asian Scholars

Select Publications

• Elite Perceptions in Foreign policy: Role of Print Media in Influencing Indo-Pak Relations, 1989-99 (Delhi: Manohar, 2004).
• "Making Sense of Regional Cooperation: SAARC at Twenty," Strategic Analysis, Jan-March 2006.
• "Internal Political Dynamics and Bangladesh's Foreign Policy Towards India," Strategic Analysis, July-September 2005.
• "Pakistan’s ‘Sustainable Democracy’: Army as the Political Architect," Strategic Analysis, January-March 2004.
• "Civil-Military Relations and Defence Decision Making in Pakistan," Strategic Analysis, August 2000.

Other publications