Josukutty C A Editor

Josukutty C A is Professor and Director, School of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Kerala, India. He was fellow of the United States Institute on US Foreign Policy at the University of Florida, 2010 and awarded the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship in 2015. In 2019, he was selected for the ‘Academic Excellence Award’ by the University of Kerala. His areas of interest and research include International Relations, India’s foreign policy and electoral politics. He has published five books and many research articles in reputed peer reviewed journals which include Maritime Affairs, Glocalism: Journal of Culture Politicsand Innovation, Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Gandhi Marg, and International Journal of South Asian Studies.

Joyce Sabina Lobo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St. Aloysius College Autonomous, Mangaluru, India. She has formerly worked with Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (formerly called Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, IDSA) New Delhi with the Eurasian Centre. She has completed her M. A (Political Science) from the Centre for Political Studies; and M.Phil and Ph.D (International Relations) from the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi. Currently her research interests are Russian cum Myanmar politics and foreign policy in which she has published, and at her hometown she is working on an UGC project on the Beary Muslims in Dakshina Kannada.