Associate Professor in the International Relations of South Asia @CSASP @OSGAOxford @Politics_Oxford @StAntsCollege | #India #Indian Ocean #IRandAreaStudies
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🥁New article!
Notice how 🇮🇳 rarely explicitly criticizes or even names 🇨🇳 in diplomatic speech? Well @RaphaellesK & I have a theory for that. Our new @BritJPIR article draws on language pragmatics to argue that 🇮🇳 often signals via a mode of indirect speech called "implicature"
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How can we think of island state or small state agency outside of relations with great or major powers?
In my latest article, I theorise island state agency as ‘the pursuit of projects’ after the social anthropologist Sherry Ortner
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How can we think of island state or small state agency outside of relations with great or major powers?
In my latest article, I theorise island state agency as ‘the pursuit of projects’ after the social anthropologist Sherry Ortner
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Check out the open access article to read more about sub-regional articulations of power in the Western Indian Ocean and purposeful projects of cooperation in the pursuit of safer seas. It is these that have made the Regional Maritime Security Architecture (RMSA) possible.
For more on the RMSA itself, see our most recent policy brief: commissionoceanindien.org/wp…
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"India derives important reputational and strategic benefits from being perceived as a rule-abiding actor, not least in contrast to China..." @Kate_SdE surveys India's mixed relationship with the US-led global order. cfr.org/articles/india-and-s…
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"India’s Foreign Policy Relocations in the Trump Tariff Era" by @Kate_SdE (@OSGAOxford, @Politics_Oxford) casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/kate-…
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Excited to share my latest article out with @Geopolitics_Jl
I explore how Sri Lanka & Bangladesh navigated power asymmetries to secure their maritime borders with India.
Incredibly grateful to @Kate_SdE for the invitation! (1/4)
doi.org/10.1080/14650045.202…
#SouthAsia #Maritime #IR
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Hindutva and Modi's India: The Makings of a Superpower? - join us for this online panel discussion with Dr Sripad Motiram, @Kate_SdE and Javed Gaya, moderated by @nehadixit123 on 21 January 2026 at 14.00 GMT. Find out more and register using the link in the comments.
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At HTLS 2025, @MichaelKugelman and @Kate_SdE said Trump-era tariffs eroded trust in U.S.-India ties, urging Washington to repair the relationship. They highlighted trade deals and India’s diversified diplomacy as the way forward.
@AdityaBirlaGrp | @GoogleIndia | @ge_aerospace
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Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.
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DPIR's @Kate_SdE explores in @ConversationUK how Western Indian Ocean countries collaborate to avoid climate disaster over a simulated oil spill in the Indian Ocean: ow.ly/3lgR50Wt8Ok
A postcard from Mombasa and a first glimpse into my emerging research on maritime security cooperation in the Western Indian Ocean
theconversation.com/i-watche…
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India’s regional security post-Pahalgam at #IdeasForIndia
📢Rahul Roy-Chaudhury (Snr Fellow, South & Central Asian Defence @IISS_org)
📢@Kate_SdE (Ass Prof, International Relations of South Asia @CSASP @OSGAOxford @Politics_Oxford @StAntsCollege)
📺Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=EHwgIBON…
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We set out to explore India’s role in a shifting global order — but even before the #IranIsraelConflict erupted, the tremors were already there.
Ep37 of India: A Story In the Making, recorded before the #Iran conflict during the @BridgeIndiaOrg - Ideas for India 2025 week, uncannily sensed what was coming.
Now, as tensions appear to ease, the conversation around a fractured #multipolarworld has only become more urgent.
🎙️ We ask Giles Trendle –Co-founder, The Green House Duo ; former MD, @AJEnglish & @Kate_SdE
• Can India lead without aligning?
• Is the global order collapsing?
• Why is India still not on the UN Security Council?
Featuring:
➡️ Full episode LIVE on the 27th of June on: youtube.com/@loveenatandonpr… & for Audio - PODCAST SMART LINK link.chtbl.com/IndiaaStoryin…...
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🎧Need a lunchtime listen?
Fascinating insights from OSGA's Kate Sullivan de Estrada @Kate_SdE (Associate Professor in the International Relations of South Asia) on the latest The Why Curve podcast discussion 'India-Pakistan: Endless Enmity?'
Listen now: whycurve.com/episode/india-p…
Will the two nuclear-armed giants of South Asia ever be good neighbours? India and Pakistan have spent 78 years arguing and sometimes in full-scale war. Is there a way out? I and @LoudMouthComms hear from @Kate_SdE @OSGAOxford
whycurve.com/episode/india-p…
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New piece in The Conversation, by me and Kate Sullivan de Estrada, unpacks the reasons and implications for India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty theconversation.com/india-an… (1/4)
Worth checking out is the @IndiaReview1 2023 special issue "India-US Convergence and Divergence under the Trump Administration", which is about to be re-published as an edited volume by Routledge routledge.com/India-US-Conve…
My piece on multilateralism argues that the overlapping leaderships of Modi & Trump 1.0 diverged on the issue of multilateralism, producing a dynamic of US retreat & redoubled Indian efforts at reform, despite their common recourse to populism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
