Dr Avinandan Choudhury

Associate Fellow

mgssa3.nmf@gmail.com
Avinandan Choudhury
@choudhury_avi

Areas of Research

Maritime Security
Maritime geostrategy
India’s Neighbourhood Policy,
South Asian Studies

Experience

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Amity Law School, Amity University Rajasthan
Jaipur (August 2020 – June 2022)

Education

PhD in Politics and International Studies, Thesis: ‘Geopolitics in Indian Ocean: A Study on India’s Maritime Geo-strategy in the 21^st Century’, Department of Politics and International Studies , Pondicherry University, Puducherry (2021)
M.A. in Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry (2014)
BCOM, Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Presentations

“India’s Maritime Strategy in Indian Ocean: A Perspective on Indo-Sino-US Strategic Triangle in Indian Ocean”, National Seminar on Indian Strategic Perspectives and Global Order held in Pondicherry University.
“Towards Mackinder’s Heartland through a Maritime Approach: A theoretical analysis of India’s Geostrategic Outreach to Afghanistan”, UGC SAP DRS II National Seminar on Indian Strategic Culture and Policy Options held at Pondicherry University.

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ROK Navy- Cheonghae_anti-piracy_unit. Image credit- www.imagur.com

21 November 2020/by admin

JAPANESE AND SOUTH KOREAN ENGAGEMENTS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA

Author: Japan and South Korea are two nation-states that have increasingly been assuming a constructive role in East Africa. Japan has, particularly, assisted African nations through a variety of initiatives that have considerably raised the profile of its development assistance programmes, most pertinently pushed through by the Official Development Assistance (ODA). The Republic of Korea, on […]

6 July 2020/by admin

BOOK REVIEW- NIHONOMICS: THE ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY OF JAPAN (FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY )

Author: By Preethi Amaresh, Notion Press, 2020, 256 pp., INR 350/- eISBN: 978-1-64760-825-5 “Nihonomics: The Economic Foreign Policy of Japan (From the 16th century to the Present Day)”, is a book written by Preethi Amaresh, wherein she analyses Japan’s economic dynamics vis-à-vis the island-state’s foreign policy, from the 16th century (which was the Edo period in […]

Credits: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

12 June 2020/by admin

JAPAN AND THE JMSDF AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author: The COVID-19 or the Coronavirus pandemic — a virus that originated in Wuhan in the Peoples’ Republic of China in late last year — claimed a handful of lives in its initial days and months, but has since spread rapidly across the globe and has accounted for deaths to the tune of over 200,000 people. […]