Vice-Chairperson
Prof. AK Ramakrishnan, a teacher, and public intellectual, holds an MA in International Studies and a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has a four decades-long bright career of teaching international relations, Feminism, Transnationalism, West Asia, Orientalism, and Postcolonialism in different Indian universities including Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is widely acclaimed for his contributions to developing West Asian studies in Indian universities. His publications include “Normative Dimensions of India’s International Engagement”, “Neoliberal Globalism and India’s Foreign Policy: Towards a Critical Rethinking,” “A Critique of contemporary liberal IR Theory from a South Asian Standpoint”, Contestations Over Sovereignty: Revisiting the Role of EU in International Politics,” and “Postcolonialism, Islam, and Area Studies.”