Dr Sasikumar Sundaram

Overview

Dr Sasikumar S. Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Politics at City, University of London, Vice Chair of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA), and a Thematic Lead on Resolving Uncertainty and Addressing Crises theme of the South and East Network for Social Sciences, an Economic and Social Research Council-funded Doctoral Training Partnership programme. He directs the Cluster for Global Disorder Studies at City.

Sashi's main research interests lie in International Relations Theory, Rhetorical Power Politics, non-Western political thought, Status and Reputation concerns of Global South states, and foreign and Security Policies of India, Brazil, and China. His research has been published in International Theory, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Political Theory, and Journal of Global Security Studies, among other places.

He earned his doctorate in 2017 from Central European University (CEU). In his doctoral years, he taught in Brazil, engaged with higher education internationalization project in Myanmar, and researched with Erasmus-Mundus scholarship at the Nordic Institute of Asia Studies (NIAS), Denmark. Thereafter, he was a postdoctoral researcher in International Relations at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and American University, Washington DC. Before his PhD, he worked at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (now MP-IDSA), New Delhi; held a visiting researcher position at the Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies (IFS), Oslo; and worked on a major research project on Indian Parliament and India’s nuclear and missile policy making.

Qualifications

• PhD in International Relations, Central European University, Hungary, 2012 – 2017
• M.A. International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary, 2011 – 2012
• M.A. Public Administration, University of Madras, India, 2004 – 2006
• B.Com Accounting and Management, American College, Madurai, India, 2001 – 2004

Administrative roles

• Vice Chair of the Global South Caucus, International Studies Association, Apr 2024 – Apr 2026
• Thematic Lead on Resolving Uncertainty and Addressing Crises, South-East Network for Social Science (SENSS), Jan 2024 – present

Languages

Portuguese (can read, write, understand spoken and peer review) and Tamil (can read, write, speak and understand spoken).

Expertise

Geographic Areas

• Americas - Latin
• Asia - South Central

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