Devendra Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

submitted: Thu Sep  7 21:55:39 1995

Devendra Sharma, Ph.D.
Center for South, Central, South-East Asian
  and South-West Pacific Studies
School of  International Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067     INDIA

MAILING ADDRESS:
B-1/1021 Vasant Kunj
New Delhi 110070, INDIA

phones: +91-11-8360714
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email:  rggupta@jnuniv.ernet.in

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Ph.D. (1994), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University:
"Afghan-US Relations 1953-78:A Study of Unequal Relationship"


M.Phil. (1989), Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut University
"British India and Afghanistan 1858-1907: A Study in Foreign Relations"

M.A.(1986) History, Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut University

RESEARCH INTEREST:

1. Post-Cold War Afghanistan in the new regional and international setting
    Ethnic conflict and its intra-and inter-regional implications
    Revivalism of Islam
    Strategic importance in the unipolar world

2. Afghan-US Relations in the Cold War Period
    Strategic, political, economic interests of superpowers in Afghanistan
    Dynamics of Afghan Foreign Policy during the Cold War Period

3. Afghanistan and Central Asia in the Colonial Period
    British India policy and Great power rivalries
    Afghan Mechanism of survival during the "Great Game"

LANGUAGES KNOWN: English, Hindi, Pushto

COUNTRIES: Afghanistan, Central Asian Republics and India

REGIONS: South, Central and South-West Asia

DISCIPLINES: History, International Relations

SUB-DISCIPLINES: Afghanistan: History, Domestic politics and Foreign Policy

ETHNIC GROUPS: Dynamics of Pushtun, Tajik and Uzbek rivalries

RELIGIOUS GROUPS: Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict

POLITICAL GROUPINGS: Rightist and Leftist political formations

HISTORICAL PERIOD: 19th and 20th century