Ummu Salma Bava
Professor
School of International Studies
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
Prof. Ummu Salma Bava is Director, Europe Area Studies Programme and Professor of European Studies at the Centre for European Studies, and Co-ordinator, The Netherlands Prime Minister�s Grant, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was Chairperson of the Centre from July 2009 � July 2011 and also the Director, UGC Europe Area Studies Programme (December 2006 - March 2007). She is also a Guest Faculty at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, India. Her expertise on India has brought her and the University recognition as an Associate Fellow of the prestigious Asia Society, New York, USA. She was earlier Associate Professor in the erstwhile Centre for American and West European Studies, SIS, JNU. Prior to joining JNU she was a Reader in the Department of Political Science, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi. Prof. Bava participates in the teaching programme of the SIS and the Centre. In the M.A. Politics (International Studies) she teaches Politics and Foreign Policy of Germany and Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution. In the Centre she teaches Issues in European Security and guides both M.Phil. and Ph. D. students. She has authored the book West German Realpolitik. Unification, EU and European Security 1949-1995. (Kanishka, 2001). She has other publications to her credit and has participated in many national and international conferences. She was invited by the US Department of State to visit the US under the International Visitor Leadership Programme in May-June 2007. She was selected for the European Union Visitor Programme, Brussels, February 2006 and also invited as Personnalites D'Avenir by the French Ministry of External Affairs to Paris, October 2005. She speaks fluent German. Prof. Bava holds a Ph.D. in European Studies from the School of International Studies, JNU and a M. Phil. in International Relations from the University of Delhi. She has a M. A. in Politics (International Studies) from SIS, JNU. She also has a Diploma in Peace and Conflict Resolution from Uppsala University, Sweden and Diploma in International Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria.
Research Interest
European and South Asian Security and Politics; Comparative Regional integration - EU,� SAARC and ASEAN; Transatlantic Relations and NATO; German Politics and Foreign Policy; India-Europe and India-US relations, Indian Foreign Policy, International Politics and Conflict Resolution
Publications
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The Relevance of US - USSR Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in the China, India and Pakistan Context, Visiting Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C., USA, February 9-May 10, 2001.
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The Role of Emerging Powers in International Security (Brazil, South Africa and India) Field Specialist, Ford Foundation Project, Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia, Brazil, November 2004 - May 2006.
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The Role of India at the UN in the Context of Changing International Politics, Visiting Fellow, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York, USA, May 14- June 15, 2008.
