Deepika Saraswat

Dr. Deepika Saraswat is Associate Fellow at the West Asia Center. Her research interests include Iran’s geopolitics in Middle East and Eurasia and interpenetration of religion and politics in postcolonial contexts. Her research project at MP-IDSA is on ‘Iran’s Asian Orientation: Quest for Status and Regional Cooperation.

Dr. Saraswat has a PhD in Political Geography from Centre for International Politics Organisation and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, Dr. Saraswat was Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (March 2018-October 2021). Her book titled ‘Between Survival and Status: The Counter-hegemonic Geopolitics of Iran’ was jointly published by the Indian Council of World Affairs and Macmillan Education in January 2022.

Associate Fellow

Email: saraswatisdeepikaed[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:+91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Iran’s Regional Diplomatic Push: Is a Breakthrough with Riyadh Possible?

Iran’s readiness for restoring diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after six years since Riyadh cut ties in January 2016 is part of broader revival of diplomacy in the region after a decade of intense geopolitical competition and proxy wars involving Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies and Turkey & Iran.

Published: January 10, 2022
IDSA Comments

Tehran’s white flag in Vienna

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Deepika Saraswat’s article ‘Tehran’s white flag in Vienna’ has been published in ‘The Indian Express’ on December 06, 2021.

Iran wants the JCPOA talks to succeed and the sanctions against it to end, says Dr. Saraswat.