Dr. Saurabh Mishra is Associate Professor at the Amity Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies (AIDSS). Prior to this he was Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA); and also worked with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, for his thesis on “Globalisation and Transnational Conflict: In the Context of Expansion and Cultural Homogeneity”. While doing his Phd, he received the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. His areas of interest are Globalisation, Peace and Conflict, International Institutions, Defence & Security, Africa, and International Relations Theory. He has worked primarily on India and United Nations, and issues regarding Africa. In addition to these, he has co-edited three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary”.
He is also a co-editor and contributor to the book titled “The Arthasastra in a Transcultural Perspective: Comparing Kautilya with Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Machiavelli, a product of a collaborative project of the IDSA, Heidelberg University and the National University of Singapore. He has organised, participated in, and attended many national and international seminars; delivered lectures to diplomats, senior armed forces officers, BSF DIGs, BSF Commandants, and officers at the Foreign Service Institute, Government of India.
