Dr Angana Kotokey is a Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. She holds a PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) India. She completed her M.Phil. as a recipient of M.Phil. Research Fellowship issued by the Ministry of External Affairs, India from the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Calcutta University (Kolkata). Angana has completed her Master’s from Pondicherry University in South Asian Studies. She graduated in Political Science from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has attended several national and international conferences and workshops on her area of research and presented papers at SOAS University of London, George Mason University, Russian-Armenian University, University of Copenhagen, Roma Tre University etc. She has written book chapters and also published research papers including in peer reviewed international journals like the Asian Affairs: The Journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs (published by Routledge), Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Routledge), The Round Table: the Common Wealth Journal of International Affairs (Routledge) etc. Her core areas of research are Geopolitics, Afghanistan, Political Islam, Arab World and Pakistan.