Manali Kumar

Manali Kumar

Manali Kumar

Dr.
Member Programme Committee, representative of junior faculty
IPW-HSG
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8
9000 St. Gallen
Main Focuses
  • Theories of International Relations
  • India - national identity and rising power
  • Prudence in statecraft
  • Foreign Policy Decision Making
  • Constructivist approaches in International Relations
  • Judgment and Choice under Uncertainty
Fields of research
  • Identity in IR
  • India as a rising power
  • Prudence
  • Qualitative methods
Education
  • PhD, Political Science, National University of Singapore (2020)
  • MA, Geopolitics Territory & Security, King's College London (2011)
  • BA, International Affairs & Philosophy, George Washington University (2009)
Professional Career

Editor-in-Chief, 9DASHLINE

Projects

How Do Rising Power Identities and Interests Change over Time? The Case of India, 1980-2020 (HSG-GFF Postdoctoral Project)

The Promise of Prudence: Decision-Making in an Uncertain World (PhD Thesis)

National Identity Database - India, 1950-2010 (Making Identity Count Project)

From Emerging Markets to Rising Powers? Power Shift in International Economic Governance 

Affiliations

International Studies Association (ISA)

European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)

European International Studies Association (EISA)

Awards

Swiss Excellence Research Scholarship, 2018-2019 (Switzerland)

President's Graduate Fellowship, 2014-2018 (Singapore)

Talks

“Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2020”, Swiss Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Virtual/Bern (5 February 2021).

“Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2020”, PSC1666 Terrorism and Political Violence (graduate seminar), Hawai’i Pacific University (28 October 2020).     

“Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US”, Research Seminar (Politics), School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen (17 November 2020).

“Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US”, Identities Cluster Research Seminar, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore (20 October 2020).

“Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US”, European Consortium of Political Science, Virtual General Conference (August 2020).                          

“Domestic Identity and International Security” Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University, India (19 February 2020).

A Theory of Prudent Judgment for Foreign Policy Decision-Making”, British International Studies Association, General Conference, London (June 2019).

A Theory of Prudent Judgment for Foreign Policy Decision-Making”, School of Economics & Political Science, Universität St. Gallen (April 2019).

A Theory of Prudent Judgment for Foreign Policy Decision-Making”, International Studies Association, Annual Convention, Toronto (March 2019). 

A Theory of Prudent Judgment for Foreign Policy Decision-Making”, Swiss Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Zurich (February 2019).

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