Dr Arpita Anant is Research Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her Ph.D thesis was entitled “Group Rights in the Indian and International Discourses”. She was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship (Canada) during 2001-02 to undertake doctoral research. She has also worked at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her current area of research is India’s multilateralism. Her wider areas of interest are global governance and India’s foreign policy. She is the editor of Non-State Armed Groups in South Asia: A Preliminary Structured Focused Comparison (New Delhi, Pentagon Security International, 2012) and author of Beyond Stereotypes: Contours of the Transition in Jammu and Kashmir (IDSA Monograph No. 16, April 2013), Development and India’s Economic Multilateralism: Where From…Where to? (IDSA Monograph No.68, December 2020), India's Role in Global Governance: Assessment of Engagement with Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (IDSA Monograph No. 78, August 2022).