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Shankari Sundararaman

Shankari Sundararaman

Shankari Sundararaman
Shankari Sundararaman
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies
School of International Studies
Room No
204, SIS-II
Off. Phone
011-26704383
Email
shankari@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies/Southeast Asian Studies 

Experience

30 years experience in research and teaching 

Awards & Honours

Awarded the ASIA Fellows Award 2005-06 (Funded by Ford Foundation), and based as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta from April 2006 till January 2007. The work focused on the `Effects of Globalisation on Plural Societies: A Case Study of Indonesia’.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Awarded a joint collaborative grant by the Asian Scholarship Foundation with Professor Uttara Sahasrabuddhe, Department of Civics and Politics, Mumbai University on “India and Indonesia: Global Powers and Regional Politics”, in October 2009.

Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra from May 2005 to July 2005.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

India’s Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar, in Delivering Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar: Roles and Options for Regional Actors, CSIS Jakarta and RSIS Singapore Policy Brief, 21 December 2021.

ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific: Managing the Impact of Regional Power Shifts, in Pratnashree Basu (ed.) Brass Tacks: Unpacking the Indo-Pacific Template, ORF-Global Policy Journal Series, Wiley-Balckwell, New Delhi 2021.

India-ASEAN Relations: `Acting’ East in the Indo-Pacific, International Studies, vol. 54, nos. 1-4, Sage, New Delhi, 2018, pp. 62-81,

Understanding the Indo-Pacific: Why Indonesia will be Critical, Journal of Indian Ocean Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 272-293, Society for Indian Ocean Studies, New Delhi, August 2016.

Fiji in Asia: India’s “New” Look East Policy – Looking Beyond Southeast Asia at the South Pacific, Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji, vol. 4, no. 2, November 2006, Fiji Institute of Applied Sciences, Fiji

How Northeast and Southeast Asian Security Shape the Security Outlook of India and Australia, in Shared Interests: Australia-India Relations into the Twenty-First Century, Strategy: Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), December 2005.   

Politics and Security in Southeast Asia: Prospects for India-ASEAN Cooperation, International Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, October-December 2004 (School of International Studies, JNU/Sage Publications, New Delhi).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Pluralism in India and Indonesia: Diversity in the Quest for Unity, Konark Publications 2024. (forthcoming)

Understanding Indo-Pacific: Historical Context and Evolving Dynamics, in Kratuik et al (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies, Routledge, London/ New York, 2023.

People Centered: Advancing India ASEAN Ties Through People to People Contact, in Koh, Singh and Thuzar (eds.), ASEAN India: The Way Forward, World Scientific, Singapore, 2023.

India-Myanmar Relations: A Critical Link in India’s Eastward Engagement, in E. Sridharan (ed.) Eastward Ho? India’s Relations with the Indo-Pacific, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2021.

India-Indonesia Relations: Moving From Shared Commonalities to Strategic Partnership, in E. Sridharan (ed.) Eastward Ho? India’s Relations with the Indo-Pacific, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2021.

ASEAN’s Centrality in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Drift or Tethered Drift, in Australia-India-Japan Trilateral Dialogue 2019: Leadership, Partnership and ASEAN Centrality in the Indo-Pacific, Griffith Asia Institute (GAI), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 2020.

India and ASEAN Regionalism Amid Challenges to Maritime Security and Cooperation, in Prabir De (ed.), ASEAN and India: Partners of Integration in Asia, Proceedings of the 5th Roundtable of the ASEAN India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) 6-7, January 2018, ASEAN India Centre, RIS, New Delhi, August 2020.

Indonesia’s Role in the G 20: Assessing the Critical Link in the ASEAN Chain, in John Whalley and Manmohan Agarwal (eds.), Economics of G 20: Developing Countries and the Need for G 20, World Scientific Reference, 2020.

Cambodia: The Lost Decades, Knowledge World, 2000

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.