Vishal Chandra
Scientist
Defence Studies and Analyses
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
He qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India in the year 2000, and was a recipient of the UGC fellowship on Area Studies Programme at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was associated with the Reintegration, Reconstruction & Reconciliation (R3) Working Group on Afghanistan, an initiative of the RNSSC/NESA Center for Strategic Studies, Washington D.C. He has also been associated with the India-Pakistan Track-II dialogue organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES, India). He regularly lectures on Afghan affairs at various institutions. As part of his research, he has travelled widely in Afghanistan. He is also Member of the IDSA Web Editorial Team.
Research Interest
Politics of Afghan Conflict
Publications
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Afghanistan 2014: Towards Uncertainty†in Maneesha Tikekar (ed.), Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Where is Afghanistan Headed?", in Arpita Basu Roy and Srimanti Sarkar (eds.), The Political Future of Afghanistan: Issues and Perspectives , Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), KW Publishers, New Delhi, 2016.
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“Beijing: Kabul’s ‘Reliable’ Strategic Partnerâ€, in Jagannath Prasad Panda (ed.), IDSA China Year Book: China’s Transition Under Xi Jinping, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2016.
