Dr Sinderpal Singh
Brief Introduction
Dr Sinderpal Singh has a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was awarded both the E.H. Carr Scholarship and the Overseas Post-Graduate Research Scholarship to undertake the PhD. He obtained his MA in International Relations from the Australian National University. He did his undergraduate degree, with a major in Political Science, at the National University of Singapore. In terms of work experience, he has worked as an Assoc. Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (NTU) from 2000 till 2002. During his writing up stage of his PhD, he was a Research Associate at ISAS for a short stint of about six months in 2005-2006. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. This involved, besides research work, conducting undergraduate instruction in several modules offered by the South Asian Studies Programme.
Area of Interest and Expertise
Indian foreign policy; Indian domestic 'identity' debates; the international politics of the South Asian region; international relations (IR) theory; the study of regionalism within IR;
Current Research
India–US relations
Publications
Books and Monographs
Framing "South Asia": Whose Imagined Region? (Singapore: Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2001).
Articles in Journals
"From Delhi to Bandung: Nehru, Indian-ness and 'Pan-Asian-Ness", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Forthcoming, April 2010). "Border Crossings and Islamic Terrorists": Representing Bangladesh in Indian Foreign Policy during the BJP Era", India Review, Vol. 8 (2).
Chapters in Books
Barry Desker and Sinderpal Singh, "Good Governance: Key Issues Confronting The Asia-Pacific Region", in Mohamed Jawhar Hassan, Stephen Leong and Vincent Lim (ed.), Asia-Pacific Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century (Malaysia: ISIS Malaysia, 2002).
Participation in Conferences
"Nehru's 'India' and Nehru's 'Asia': A Case Study of Region-Building", paper presented at the 20th Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 14-17, November 2008. "A Tale of Two Regions: Constructing India's Regional Roles", paper presented at the International Politics Research Seminar, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 9th December, 2004."The Framing of Nation and Region: The Case Of India in South Asia", paper presented at the 1st Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Canberra, Australia, 14th – 16th July 2004."Imagining the 'Asia-Pacific' – Discourse/Practice", paper presented at the 44th International Studies Association Convention, Portland, Oregon, US, 25 Feb - 1 March 2003.
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