Jagannath P. Panda

Biography

Dr. Jagannath P. Panda is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre in IDSA. His areas of research expertise are: China-India Relations, China’s foreign policy, Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific, Northeast Asian Security and Trans-Himalayan politics. Dr. Panda is the author of India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority in a Multipolar World Order (Routledge, 2017). Dr. Panda is in charge of East Asia Centre’s academic and administrative activities, including Track-II and Track 1.5 dialogues with Chinese, Japanese and Korean think-tanks and institutes. He is a recipient of the V.K. Krishna Menon Memorial Gold Medal (2000) from the Indian Society of International Law & Diplomacy in New Delhi. He joined IDSA in 2006 and has more than ten years of research experience. Dr. Panda is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (Routledge). He is also affiliated (honorary) to the Institute of Transnational Studies (ITS), Germany/Italy. He is the first South Asian scholar to receive the prestigious East Asia Institute (EAI) fellowship. He has also received a number of prestigious fellowships such as the STINT Asia Fellowship from Sweden; Carole Weinstein Fellowship from the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA; National Science Council (NSC) Visiting Professorship from Taiwan; Visiting Scholar (2012) at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), USA; and Visiting Fellowship from Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS), China. He has been invited as lead speaker to talks, seminars, conferences and symposiums and has also chaired prominent events. Dr. Panda has published in leading peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Asian Public Policy (Routledge), Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage), Asian Perspective (Lynne Reiner), Journal of Contemporary China (Routledge), Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs (Georgetown), Strategic Analysis (Routledge), China Report (Sage), Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (MD Publication), Portuguese Journal of International Affairs (Euro Press), etc.

Research Interest

Areas of research expertise are: China-India Relations, China’s foreign policy, Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific, Northeast Asian Security and Trans-Himalayan politics