Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta

Associate Professor

Work Experience

16 Years

Area of Specialization

International Politics and India’s Foreign Policy

Projects & Patents

• Principal Investigator, ‘Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)’ funded Project, August, 2023 to August, 2025 (Ongoing), on ‘A Study of Ancient Indian Wisdom as an Indispensable Element of India’s Soft Power: Challenging Eurocentric Narrations in International Politics’. • Principal Investigator , Sikkim University Research Fund Award, 2017-18, on ‘Impact of Gorkhaland Movement on the Socio-Economic Conditions of the People of Sikkim: An Attitudinal Survey’.

Education

MA., PhD

Achievments/Awards/Honors

• Core Commander’s ‘Trishakti Medallion’, conferred for best lectures and noteworthy services to the Tibetology Cadre of the Indian Armed Forces (14/05/2022). • Worked as a faculty member in the rank of Director, at the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (SSIFS), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, for two years from 20/11/2018 to 19/11/2020

Publications

BOOKS • ‘India’s Act East Policy Through Northeast: Opportunities and Challenges’. Editors – Dr. Gadde Omprasad and Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2017, ISBN: 81-8324-824-1. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN JOURNALS AND BOOKS • ‘Re-examining the Concept of Soft Power and Initiating a Debate on How to Define the Concept from the Negative and Positive Connotations’, Soft Power Journal: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics and Law, Vol. 10 (I), Issue 19, January-June, 2023, pp. 164-187, (Italy and Colombia), ISSN: 2389-8232; WEB ISSN: 2539-2239. • ‘Commentary on India’s Soft Power and Diaspora’, International Journal on World Peace, Vol. XXV No.3, September 2008, pp. 61-68, (U.S.A) ISSN 0742-3640. (UGC – CARE Listed Journal). • ‘India’s Foreign Policy: An Adherence to Change, Pre Independence to Post Pokhran II’, Asian Profile, Vol. 40, No. 3, June 2012, pp. 197-212, (Canada)ISSBN 03048675. • ‘Locating the Indians of Nepali Origin in India: A Study of the Gorkhaland Movement and its Impact on Sikkim’, GUINEIS JOURNAL (Gauhati University Institute of North East India Studies), Vol. IX, 2022, pp. 100-109, (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2347-2669. • ‘The Politics of Ethnic Identity and Indo-Nepal Relations’, Third Concept: An International Journal of Ideas, Vol. 36, No. 430, December, 2022, pp. 17-20, New Delhi, (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 0970-7247. • ‘सॉफ्ट पॉवर: भारतीय विदेश निति की अहम रणनीति’, Aadhunik Sahitya, Vol. 46, June 2023, pp. 233-246, New Delhi, (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2277-7083. • ‘21वीं सदी में प्रवासी भारतीय और उनके साहित्य’, Sankalya, January-March and April-June, 2023 Issue 1 & 2, pp. 21-26, Hindi Academy, Hyderabad, (UGC Care Listed Journal), ISSN: 2277-9264. • ‘The Trajectory of India’s Foreign Affairs Strategy: Vajpayee to Modi’, Shodh Sarita, Vol. 8, Issue 29, January to March 2021, (Lucknow), (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2348-2397, pp.13-17. • ‘Grand Strategy and India’s Foreign Policy’, Shodh Sanchar Bulletin, Vol. 11, Issue 41, January to March, 2021, (Lucknow), (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2229-3620, pp. 1-4. • ‘Soft Power: The Undercurrent in India-China Rivalry’, Shodh Sarita: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 28, October to December 2020, (Lucknow), (UGC – CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2348-2397, pp. 136-140. • राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति और पूर्वोत्तर भारत: अवसर एवं चुनौतियाँ, Gyan Garima Sindhu, Issue 70-71, April – June and July – September, 2021, Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, Ministry of Education, New Delhi, (UGC _CARE Listed Journal), ISSN: 2321-0443, pp. 219-226. • ‘भारतीय विदिश निति संबंधित सामरिक चिंतन: एक विवेचन,’ Gyan Garima Sindhu, Issue 68, October – December, 2020, Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, Ministry of Education, New Delhi, (UGC _CARE Listed Journal – Group B), ISSN: 2321-0443, pp. 11-17. • ‘Perception of India’s Soft Power: As Perceived by People Within and Around the Globe – Report from the Field Survey’, Dialogue Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4, April-June, 2020, pp. 136-148, (New Delhi), (UGC – CARE Listed Journal). ISSN: 0973-0095. • ‘Soft Power a Major Foreign Policy Tool of India’, in India in The New World Order: The Changing Contours of Her Foreign Policy Under Narendra Modi, Prof Raj Kumar Kothari (ed.), Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2019, ISBN: 978-8126930371. • ‘Indo-Japan Relations from the Lens of Soft Power’, in India-Japan Relations in the Era of Globalization, Prof. Mohammed Badrul Alam (ed.), Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 2018, pp. 195-207, ISBN: 978-81-212-1433-9. • ‘Locating the Indian Diaspora in Southeast Asia’, in India’s Act East Policy Through Northeast: Opportunities and Challenges’, Dr. Gadde Omprasad and Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta (eds.), Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2017, PP: 49-65, ISBN: 81-8324-824-1. • ‘A Compendium of Social Exclusion and Inclusion in India: How’s India Faring in a Globalized World?’, in Challenges of Globalization, Anupama Tandon (ed.), Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, 2014, pp. 8-23, (Edited Book) ISBN: 978-81-269-1153-6 • ‘India’s Policy Towards Africa’, World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, co-authored with Prof. Mohammed Badrul Alam, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer (April-June), 2014, pp. 88-99, (India), ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937. • ‘Soft Power of the United States, China and India: A Comparative Analysis’, Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Vol. 26(1), June-December, 2013, pp. 37-57, (India). ISSN 0970-6402. (UGC – CARE Listed Journal). • ‘Destination Africa: China, India and Japan’, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, co-authored with Prof. Mohammed Badrul Alam, Vol. 6, No. 2, April – June, 2011, pp. 187-201, (India) ISSN 0973-3248 • ‘Indo-China Relations in the Era of Soft Power ’, in Contours of India’s Foreign Policy: Changes and Challenges, Prof. Mohammed Badrul Alam (ed.), Reference Press, Delhi, 2014, pp. 160-173, (Edited Book) ISBN 978-81-8405-082-0 • ‘Obama’s AF-PAK Strategy’, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, www.ipcs.org, Article No. #2841, 6 April, 2009. (Web Based) • ‘Practical Consideration: an Immediate Exigency in the Indo-Nepal Relation’, Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict, www.sspconline.org, Article No: 175, September 20, 2009. (Web Based)