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Manali Kumar

Manali Kumar

Manali Kumar

Dr.

Member Programme Committee, representative of junior faculty

IPW-HSG
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8

9000 St. Gallen
Main Focuses

Theories of International Relations

India - national identity and rising power

Prudence in statecraft

Foreign Policy Decision Making

Constructivist approaches in International Relations

Judgment and Choice under Uncertainty

Fields of research

Identity in IR

India as a rising power

Prudence

Qualitative methods

Further fields of research

Decision-making under uncertainty

Indo-Pacific

Education
  • PhD, Political Science, National University of Singapore (2020)
  • MA, Geopolitics Territory & Security, King's College London (2011)
  • BA, International Affairs & Philosophy, George Washington University (2009)
Professional Career

Editor-in-Chief, 9DASHLINE

Teaching Activities

Spring Project: Rising Powers (BIA)

Introduction to Contemporary Indian Society (Kontextual Studies)

Affiliations

International Studies Association (ISA)

European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)

European International Studies Association (EISA)

Awards

Swiss Excellence Research Scholarship, 2018-2019 (Switzerland)

President's Graduate Fellowship, 2014-2018 (Singapore)

Talks

“The Prudent Judgment Approach for Decision-Making under Uncertainty”, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India (4 February 2022).

India and the Indo-Pacific, University of St Gallen (1 December 2022).

Keynote Speaker, “International Politics of Climate Change”, Space & Geospatial Virtual Pavilion for COP26 (10 November 2021).

Keynote Speaker, “International Politics of Climate Change”, Geospatial World Forum 2021 (Amsterdam, 20 October).

Publishing as an early-career researcher, panellist in a workshop for the King’s India Institute Graduate Conference 2021, King’s College London (30 June 2021).

“Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2020”, PSC1666 Terrorism and Political Violence (graduate seminar), Hawai’i Pacific University (28 October 2020).     

“Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2020”, Swiss Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Virtual/Bern (5 February 2021).

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