Biography

Dr. Shrabana Barua is an Associate Professor, with an expertise on matters related to South and Southeast Asia. She specializes in topics such as infrastructure and connectivity, geopolitics and geo-strategy around India’s neighbourhood, issues pertaining to Myanmar and Pakistan, and, multilateralism in Southeast Asia. She is the co-editor of the book, India’s Nuclear Titans: Biographical Tales (2023).

Previously, Dr Barua worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (New Delhi). She was a faculty at the Department of Political Science in Hindu College, University of Delhi. She has also worked with think tanks such as Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations (Mumbai) and Nepal Institute of International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), Kathmandu.

Dr Barua’s PhD thesis titled ‘Infrastructure Diplomacy as a Tool for Influence by China and India: A Case Study of Myanmar’ was selected for the award of the ICSSR Full Term Doctoral Fellowship in 2019. One of her papers titled, ‘The Siachen Dispute Through the Copenhagen Lens of Securitization: India’s Sustaining Military Presence’ (2021), which was part of her M.Phil dissertation, was published in the International Journal on World Peace. More recently, she authored the Sapru House Paper, titled ‘Geopolitics of Infrastructure Building in South Asia: Causes and Consequences’ (2024), published by ICWA. Further, she has published many articles, book reviews, web-commentaries, op-eds and book chapters in peer-reviewed journal, national dailies, think tank websites and magazines. She has presented many papers at national and international conferences, including in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Yangon, Kathmandu among others.