Jivanta Schottli is Assistant Professor, Indian Politics and Foreign Policy and Director of Dublin City University’s Ireland India Institute. Jivanta holds a PhD (Summa cum Laude) from Heidelberg University, Germany, a Masters in Economic History and a BSc in International Relations and History, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications include Maritime Governance in South Asia (Ed.) World Scientific, Singapore, 2018; Power, Politics and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean (ed) Routledge, London 2014; Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics, Routledge, London 2012. She has written articles for Asian Survey, the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and Irish Studies in International Affairs. Her recently co-authored book Statecraft and Foreign Policy. India 1947 – 2023 was published with DCU Press in 2024.
Research Areas: India’s international relations, maritime diplomacy in the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific, statecraft and foreign policy.
Abel Polese is associate professor with expertise on shadow and illegal economies, governance and informality with focus on the non-Western world. He has been a JSPS fellow to Ritsumeikan University in Japan and a visiting fellow at universities in Asia (i.e. Renmin in China, JNU in India), Africa (Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Martyrs University in Uganda) and the Americas (Harvard and Toronto as well as Manizales in Columbia). He is also involved in debates on open science, mental health and science excellence and is the author of “The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy and Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia”, a critical reflection on the current academic world that has been already translated into Spanish, Russian and Kyrgyz.