Dr. Anu Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Amity University, NOIDA. She was associated with the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi since November 2019. Her core interest area includes area studies, foreign policy and defence politics. She has also published a book titled “Through the Looking Glass: Iran and its Foreign Relations” in 2020 through Knowledge World Publishers. The same has been co-published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis) in February 2022. She has also published and presented various papers on foreign and domestic politics of Iran and the broader West Asian region at both national and international platforms.
She has graduated from Delhi University’s Kalindi College in Journalism and Mass Communications. She has credible experience as a freelancing journalist with “The Statesman” newspaper, New Delhi as part of her Graduation programme. She also has a PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communications from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She holds Masters in Politics with a specialization in International Relations from the School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her M.Phil. titled “Congress and the Presidency and Controversy over War Powers: Case Studies of Haiti and Afghanistan” is from the American Studies division of Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies (CCUS&LAS), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has done her Ph.D. titled “China’s BRI Plan in West Asia: Case Studies of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE” from the Centre for International Politics (CIP), School of International Studies (SIS), Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar (Gujarat).
