Dr. Vinay Kaura is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs and Security Studies, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Concurrently, he is an Adjunct Faculty at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, a collaboration between the US Department of Defense and the German Ministry of Defence. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington DC.