Recent Developments in Afghanistan : ICWA Reflections Nivedita Ray

About the Book The Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi has been following the recent developments in Afghanistan closely and have been reflecting upon them through its various research publications. This edited volume, comprising research papers by the Research Faculty of ICWA, focuses on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, its fallout and the responses of the regional countries on the same. Discussions in this issue attempt to bring together fifteen research papers of ICWA on the developments in Afghanistan between July and November 2021. Editors: Dr. Nivedita Ray is the Director (Research) at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. She has done her Ph.D from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her areas of research interest include African Affairs, BRICS, IBSA, South-South and Triangular Development Cooperation, Indian Foreign Policy, Indian Diaspora, Maritime Security, Gender and Conflict Resolution. She has edited the books India and Africa: The Road Ahead, Africa and India: A Partnership for Development and Growth and Tagore the Eternal Seeker: Footprints of a World Traveller. She has authored the book India’s Engagement with East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges. Dr. Anwesha Ghosh is a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. She has taught at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany as a Lecturer while conducting her Post-doctoral research on international migration. She holds a doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Erfurt, an MPhil from the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Kolkata and double Masters in History and Development Studies from University of Calcutta and University of Rome, La Sapienza respectively. Dr. Ghosh is the author of Identity and Marginality in India, Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants (London, New York: Routledge, 2019).