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Jajati K. Pattnaik

Associate Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Room No

306

jajatikpattnaik@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

https://jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

M.Phil.,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi .

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Comparative Politics & International Relations

Area Studies

West Asian Studies /Gulf Studies /Border Studies

Courses Taught /Offered

Course offered at M.A. level: State and Politics in West Asia and North Africa

Course offered at Ph.D. level: West Asian Political Systems

Course offered at Ph. D. level: Government and Politics in GCC States

Course to be offered at M.A. (IR-WAS) level: Theories of International Relations

Course to be offered at M.A. (IR-WAS) level: India and the GCC States

Experience

Twenty-Seven Years

Awards & Honours

Outstanding Teacher Award by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh in 2018

Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla in 2011

Visiting Scholar at the Gulf Studies Programme, SIS, JNU in 2003

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Research Advisor to International Centre for Peace Studies

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

The Border as a Political Space and its Economic Correlate:The Case of McMahon Line,Millenuim Asia (Scopus),Sage, March 2025

Diaspora as a Catalyst in India-United Arab Emirates (UAE) Cooperation ,Brill (Scopus), July 2024

The Materiality of Space: Infrastructuring the Border Space, India Quarterly(Scopus), Sage, August 2023

Historicising the Overseas Odia Diasporic Experience, South Asian Diaspora (Scopus), Routledge, August 2023

Interrogating Erdogan's Neo-Ottoman Geo-Political Imagination, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs(Scopus), Institute for Research and European Studies,8 (3), December 2022

China's Geo-economic Interest in Africa : A Short Overview, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs(Scopus), Institute for Research and European Studies, 8(2 ), June 2022

Should the Stilwell Road be Reopened? Economic & Political Weekly (Scopus), Sameeksha Trust, 51(15), 2016

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Books/Edited Volumes (upto 3)

Saudi Arabia: Political Structure and Reforms :New Century Publications ,2017

India-Iran Bilateral relations in the Contemporary Period in Anwar Alam(ed.), India and Iran:An Assessment of Contemporary Relations,New Century Publications, 2011

Democratisation in Saudi Arabia in Gulshan Dietl (ed.) Democracy and Democratisation in the Gulf,Shipra Publication, 2010