Namrata Goswami

Namrata Goswami is a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. She is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (India) where she focuses on the Chinese territorial claim on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, insurgencies in the Northeast of India and India’s counter-insurgency experience. She has travelled extensively in Northeast India engaging in field research in the China-India border areas as well as in areas suffering from armed ethnic conflicts. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (Germany); the La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia) and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (Norway). She received her M.A. degree in Politics and Administration from the University of Pune (India) and Ph.D. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).

In her Jennings Randolph fellowship project, Namrata proposes to fill a critical gap in the current literature on how China-India border tensions in the eastern sector can be optimally resolved by utilizing a scenario perspective. She proposes to offer three alternative scenarios on China-India border issues based on three interacting variables, namely: Chinese regime stability; the Tibet factor; and the evolution of the India-US relationship. The three alternative scenarios will explore whether China-India border tensions will result in cooperation or conflict.

Publications

• “Escalation and De-escalation of Violence in Insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India”, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 24/1, 2013, forthcoming.
• “China’s Territorial Claim on India’s Eastern Sector: Tibet as Core”, IDSA Issue Brief, April 19, 2012.
• Imagining Asia in 2030: Trends, Scenarios and Alternatives (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2011) “China’s Territorial Claim on India’s Arunachal Pradesh: A Response to Changing Power Dynamics in Asia”, Strategic Analysis, 35/5, September 2011, pp. 781-792.
• “Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and the Indian State’s Response: Limits on the ‘use of force’ and the ‘notion’ of proportionality, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, University of Heidelberg, Working Paper No. 60, March 2011, pp. 1-27.
• “India’s North East 2020: Four Alternative Scenarios”, IDSA Occasional Paper No.13, 2010.
• “India’s Counter-Insurgency Experience: The ‘Trust’ and ‘Nurture Strategy”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 20/1 (March 2009) Routledge, London, pp.66-86.