Profile
Nimmi Kurian is Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
She is also the India Representative and Senior Advisor, India China Institute, The New School, New York. Nimmi’s research interests are in border states and foreign policy; China’s domestic politics; Indian and Chinese approaches to regionalism; and transborder governance. Some of the recent themes she has worked on include accountability debates in India and China; post-Mao policy shifts in China’s regional development; Northeast India and its transnational neighbourhood; a critical reading of the transborder subregion; and an agenda for India-China water dialogue.
She is part of the Asian Borderlands Research Initiative, a network of scholars interested in the reconfiguration of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of borderlands. She is also part of the BCIM Forum, a subregional Track-II initiative of research institutes from India, China, Bangladesh and Myanmar to study processes of marginalisation in the peripheries and suggest actionable and alternate imaginaries.
Her forthcoming publication is the book Beyond Binaries: Border States and Foreign Policy in India and China (Sage, forthcoming). Her next book project is a comparative study of foreign policy analysis, actors and agendas in India and China.
Contact: nimmikurian@gmail.com
