Prof. Phunchok Stobdan

Joined IDSA

March 1989

Expertise

Central Asia & Afghanistan; China (Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia); Myanmar; The Himalayas

Education

M Phil, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Background

Professor P. Stobdan is a leading Indian expert on issues concerning national and international security with specific focus on Asian affairs covering Central Asia and Inner Asia, including Xinjiang, Tibet, Myanmar and the Himalayan region. He has written extensively on a wide range of security-related subjects in a number of professional journals on strategic affairs, books and newspapers both in India and abroad. He served in Central Asia as the Director of the Indian Cultural Centre at the Embassy of India, Almaty, Kazakhstan between 1999 and 2002. He has also served as Joint Director in the Indian National Security Council. Between October 2006 and November 2007, he was Director of the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies at the University of Jammu. He is a member of the India International Centre, New Delhi.

Select Publications

• The Last Colony: Muzaffarabad-Gilgit-Baltistan, (India Research Press, New Delhi, 2008).
• “Building Strategic Partnership with Kazakhstan: A Blueprint for India’s Central Asia Policy,” Central Asia and the Caucasus: Journal of Social & Political Studies , No. 5 (41), 2006.
• “India and Central Asia” in Indian Foreign Policy, (Ministry of External Affairs FSI-Academic Foundation Publication, 2006).
• “Central Asia and India's Security,” Strategic Analysis, January-March 2004.
• India and Kazakhstan: Civilizational Explorations, (Heritage Publication, New Delhi 2003).

Other publications