K.M.SEETHI

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

• Professor (Since 2005)
  School of International Relations and Politics
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Director (2013-2016)
  School of International Relations and Politics
  Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam-Kerala, India
• Honorary Director (2012- 2015)
  KN Raj Centre for Planning and Centre-State Financial Relations
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Dean (2010-13)
  Faculty of Social Sciences
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Director of Research (2010-12)
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Director (2007-2010)
  School of International Relations and Politics
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Chairman (Since 2009- )
  Centre for Cross-National Communication in South Asia (CCCSA)
  School of International Relations and Politics
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Coordinator (Since 2009)
  K.P.S. Menon Chair for Diplomatic Studies
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Chairman (2014-17)
  Board of Studies, School of International Relations and Politics
  Mahatma Gandhi University
• Chairman (2010-14, 2014-17)
  Board of Studies in Political Science,
  Mahatma Gandhi University

Editor : South Asian Journal of Diplomacy (since 2010)
General Editor : Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations (Since 2009)
Editor : Journal of Political Economy and Fiscal Federalism (2015)

EDUCATION

• PhD: Security Considerations in South Asia: A Case Study with Special Reference to India-Pakistan Relations, Departmentof Political Science, University of Kerala
• M.A: Political Science (First Rank [1983] University of Kerala)

INTERNATIONAL VISIT/EXPERIENCE

• Keynote address at the EDUfocus Conference in Doha held on 3 February 2017 organised by
  FocusQATAR‟, a non-profit organization of Indian expatriates in Qatar, registered with Indian Cultural
  Centre (ICC) under the aegis of Indian Embassy in Qatar.
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 16-19 August 2016 (GRM International Conference – Paper Presented
  “Distress Signals from Kerala‟s Remittance Economy: Implications of the Unmitigated „Dutch Disease
  Syndrome.‟
• INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA) ANNUAL CONVENTION at Louisiana, New
  Orleans, USA, during 18-21 February 2015. Presented paper at the Presidential Theme Panel on the topic
  “New Historicism and Use of Text in IR: Interpreting the Life-Worlds of Indian Diaspora in the Persian
  Gulf,” on Friday, 20 February 2015 under the Session, FC-10, “Re-imagining the Precincts of IR: Ideas
  and Practices in Motion.”
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2-5 July 2013 (GRM International Conference – Paper Presented
  “Economic Dynamo of Non-alignment: Flexible Connectivity and India‟s Inclusive Diplomacy in the
  Gulf.”
• Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 22 October 2012 (Consultation)
• University of Malaya, Malaysia, 21 October 2012(Consultation)
• University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 16-20 July 2012 (Gulf Studies Conference: An interdisciplinary conference on
  the Gulf region (Arabia, Iran, Iraq), past and present, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of
  Exeter, Exeter, UK. (Participation)
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 11-14 July 2012 (GRM International Conference – Paper Presented“India
  and the Emerging Gulf: Between „Strategic Balancing‟ and „Soft Power‟ Options.”
• Jinan National University, China, October 2011 (International Conference -Paper Presented on “Sufism and
  the Contemporary Challenges of Islam in South Asia.”
• The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, November 2011(International Conference -Paper
  Presented on “India‟s Look East Policy.”
• East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore (August 2009) (International Conference –
  Paper Presented on “Emerging India and China: Potentials and Constraints.”

ACADEMIC/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

33 years of teaching and research experience at the School of International Relations and Politics,
Mahatma Gandhi University, India

• Subject and Field of Study : Political Theory and Philosophy/International Relations Theory/South Asian Studies/India‟s foreign Policy and Relations/Defence and Strategic Studies/Human Security/Research Methodology
• Areas of Interest : International Relations Theory/The Gulf and South Asian Studies/Foreign Policy/Social Theory/Political Theory/International Relations of South Asia/Human Security/Environment/Research Methodology

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/EXPERIENCE

Editor, South Asian Journal of Diplomacy
Editor, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations
Editor, Journal of Political Economy and Fiscal Federalism

• International Studies Association (ISA), USA
• Indian Academy of Social Sciences
• Asian Political and International Studies Association
• All Kerala Political Science Association
• Member, Syndicate, Mahatma Gandhi University (2010-12)
• Member, Academic Council, Mahatma Gandhi University (2001-16)
• External Referee of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo
• Reviewer of Millennium Journal of International Studies (London School of Economics and PS)
• Referee, Economic and Political Weekly
• Reviewer of Oxford University Press
• Reviewer of Routledge India
• Expert, International Scholar Exchanges, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
• Expert, UGC Special Assistance programme (Central University of Hyderabad)
• Resource Person and External Expert, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia,
  University of Madras, Hyderabad Central University, University of Kerala, Central University of Gujarat, University of Calicut, Manipal University

98 Papers presented in various national and International Seminars

About 224 articles/features/commentaries/interviews/reviews were written in the Columns of The Hindu, The
Economic Times, The New Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle, The Week, online journals such as The Diplomat, Countercurrents,Keralamonitor et al.

Research Projects

• Working with the ICSSR sponsored project on “Reworking the knowledge structures in international relations: Some Indian contributions” in collaboration with the Institute for Research on India and International Studies, New Delhi (2015-17)
• University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi-sponsored Major Research Project on Health, Environment and Human Security (2009-2011)
• Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) Project on“Statelessness, Citizenship and Human Security: A Study on the Repatriated Tamils in Kerala” (2011-13)
• Consultancy Project on “The Impact Assessment Study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme(MGNREGS) in Kerala” sponsored by the State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Government of Kerala.

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS

1. State and Civil Society Under Siege (Sage Publications, 2015) co-author (with PM Joshy)
2. Engaging South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities of New Diplomacy (e-book) (KPS Menon Chair 2017)
3. Economic Empowerment and Livelihood Security: Engaging MGNREGS in Kerala (KPSM Chair 2016).
4. Coastal Security: Needed A New Look (KPS Menon Chair 2010) co edited (with K.R. Singh)
5. Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy (Orient Longman 2005/Orient
   Blackswan 2009) co edited (with Rajen Harshe).
6. Swinging Triangle: Trends and Issues in India’s Relations with the Superpowers (MMSB Publishers 1984).

ARTICLES IN ENGLISH (SELECT)

• “Multitude of „Risks‟ RSS-CPI (M) Violence in Kerala,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LII, Issue No. 29, 22 July 2017.
• “The Plight of the Adivasis of Kerala: Revisiting „Occupy Forest‟ Movement in Muthanga,” in C.Vinodan (ed.),
  Governance and Development Challenges in India, New Delhi: New Century.
• “India‟s Tectonic Political Shift: „Authoritative Hegemony‟ and the „Congress System‟: Debating „Leadership‟
  And Silence on Policy Regime,” Global Research, 20 March 2017.
• “Muthanga, 19/2” – A Milestone In Land Struggles In Kerala,” Countercurrents.org, 19 February 2017.
• “Reinforcing Economic Empowerment through Social Safety Net: The Experience of NREGS in
  Ernakulam,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.9, 2016.
• “Still Across the Line of Control and the „Unfinished Innings in Kashmir,” Countercurrents.org, 21 July 2016
• “Foreign Policy as Performing Art,” Countercurrents.org, 11 June 2016.
• “Social Facts in an Off-Day Game ,” Countercurrents.org, 19 June 2016.
• “Left Front Victory in Kerala: A Verdict for „Social Re-engineering,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 22, 28 May, 2016
• “National Security, Holier Than „Human Security‟ In India,” Countercurrents.org, 14 May 2016
• “Can the subaltern speak for himself?,” The Hindu/South Asian Monitor, 2016/1/27
• “Political Islam, Violence and Civil Society in Pakistan,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations Vol.8. No.1.2015
• “Non-Proliferation Dynamic: American „Soft Containment‟ of Iran And India,” Countercurrents 2015/7/26
• “Misunderstood genius: Mohammed Ali Jinnah,” The Week 2015/12/27
• “The Global South and Non-Alignment: Challenges of Indian Diplomacy in the Gulf,” Journal of Political
  Economy and Fiscal Federalism, Vol.1 2015.
• “Debating Colonial Hang-over,” Countercurrents, 26 July 2015.
• “Pakistan School Killing: South Asia‟s Killing Fields,” Tehelka, 19 December 2014.
• “A Jurist Extraordinaire,” Tehelka, 20 December 2014.
• “Negotiating for Security in South Asia,” in C.Vinodan (ed.), South Asia in the Globalised World, New Delhi:        New Century Publications, 2014.
• “Law Proposes, and Politics Disposes: Questions Beyond/Beneath „Checks And Balances‟ ” Countercurrents, 3
  September 2014.
• “Conversion/Reconversion: Is the civil Society in Kerala Poised to Become a „Testing Lab‟? Countercurrents, 26 December 2014.
• “India‟s Connect Central Asia Policy,” The Diplomat, 13 December 2013.
• “China, Israel and India: Flexible Coalitions,” The Diplomat, 24 November 2013.
• “India and the Emerging Gulf: Between „Strategic Balancing‟ and „Soft Power‟ Options,” in Tim Niblock and
  Monica Malik (eds.), Asia-Gulf Economic Relations in the 21st Century: The Local to Global Transformation,
  (London: Gerlach Press, 2013).
• “Democracy and Electoral System in India,” Social Science Perspectives, 5(2), April-June 2013.
• “Problematising South Asian Security: Internal-external dynamics,” in R. Sreekantan Nair (ed.), Reexamining
  Human Rights: Global Postures and Local Realities, London: ResearchSyndicate, 2012).
• “India and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation,” South Asian Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1) 2012.
• “Identity Politics and New Social Movements,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.5, No.1& 2,January-December 2012 (co-author).
• “China‟s „Peaceful Rise‟ in the New Millennium,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.4, No.1&2, January-December 2011.
• “Sufism and the Contemporary Challenges of Islam in South Asia,” South Asian Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1) 2011.
• “Social Sciences in Transition: Value-Rationality beyond Rigid Boundaries,” Social Science Perspectives, March-June2011.
• “Obama‟s Hot Feeler Triggers More Confusion,” Countercurrents, 21 May 2011.
• “The Perils of Endosulfan,” Economic Times, 26 April 2011.
• “Endosulfan: Endgames in Geneva and New Delhi,” Countercurrents, 24 April 2011.
• “State and Health under Capitalism,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.3, No.1& 2, January December 2010(co-author).
• “West is West: The IT Sector and the New American Protectionism,” Mainstream, Vol. XLVII, No 46, 6 November 2010.
• “Beyond Regions: Political Economy of India‟s Trans-South Asian Engagements,” South Asian Journal of
  Diplomacy, 1(1) 2010.
• “Interrogating Security: The Hindu Right and the nuclear Question,” South Asian Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1) 2010 (co-author).
• “State, Health and Human Security,” Working Paper-1, Centre for Cross National Communication in South
  Asia, SIRP/MGU, Kottayam: 2010(co-author).
• “Contested Terrains of State and Civil Society: Between Philosophy and Praxis,” Indian Journal of Politics and
  International Relations, Vol.2, No.2, July-December 2009.
• “Reinventing Public Sphere: Habermas‟s „Sluice‟ Model under Neoliberal „Siege‟, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.2, No.1, January-July 2009.
• “Emerging India and China: Potentials and Constraints,” in Lam Peng Er and Lim Tai Wei (eds.), The Rise of
  China and India: A New Asian Drama (Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2009).
• “Global Financial Meltdown and the IT Sector in India,” WIB e-Monograph Series-11, 2008(Bangalore: WebIndia,2008).
• “Perils of Nuclear Renaissance and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations,Vol.1, No.1, January-June 2008.
• “M.N.V: The Scholar who Knew too Much,” Mainstream, 31 October 2007.
• “Civil Society-State Discourses: From Liberalism and Marxism to Neoliberalism and Neo-Marxism,” WIB eMonograph Series-2, 2007 (Bangalore: WebIndia, 2007).
• “Who Disowns the Working Class: A Workers‟ Co-operative in Crisis,” WIB e-Monograph Series-7, 2006
  (Bangalore: WebIndia, 2006).
• “Problematising South Asian Security: Internal-external dynamics,” Human Rights Global Focus, Vol. 02, Number 04, 2005.
• “Perils of Pesticide: Human and Environmental Costs of Endosulfan,” Human Rights Global Focus, Vol. 02,
  Number 03, August 2005.
• “Legend of Legends: Tributes to O.V. Vijayan,” Keralamonitor June 2005.
• “Tribal Question and Marginalization in Kerala” in Adivasis and marginalisation (ed.), Coimbatore: Centre for
  Social Exclusion and Marginalization Studies, 2005).
• “Kashmir: Rethinking Security beyond the Line of Control,” in Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
• “India‟s CTBT Policy: From the Text to the Testing Times,” in Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
• “The Political Economy of India‟s Third World Policy,” with Vijayan P. in Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Orient Longman/Orient Blackswan, 2005/2009).“Political Economy of Militarisation: A Case Study of India” WIB e-Monograph Series-21, 2004(Bangalore: WebIndia-Books,2004).
• “Adivasis under State Terror: The Plight of Indigenous Communities in Kerala,” keralamonitor 2003. 2003
• “Endless Miseries of Endosulfan,” keralamonitor 2002
• “Business with Life and Organs,” keralamonitor 2002.
• “Kidney Trade: Ambiguous Response of Medical Community,” Economic and Political Weekly, December 7, 2002.
• “The Making of Terrorism and Islamism: Partners in Uneasy Peace and Unholy War,” Indian Journal of Secularism(Mumbai), Vol.6, No.3, October-December 2002.
• “Islamism, Terrorism and Imperialism: Beneath the Global reciprocity,” in Gopakumar (ed.), International Terrorism and Global Order in the 21st Century (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2002).
• “Security, Civil Society and the Kashmir Question: A View from the South,” in V.R. Raghavan (ed.),Comprehensive Security: Regional Perspectives (New Delhi: Delhi: Policy Group, 2002).
• “Postmodernism, Neoliberalism and Civil Society: A Critique of the Development Strategies in the Era of Globalisation,” Indian Journal of Political Science, No.3, September 2001.
• “Clinical Drug Trials: Bioethics under Siege,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.36, No.34 August 25, 2001.
• “Grasim: Polluter Does not Pay,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vo.36, No.29 July 21, 2001
• “Travancore Titanium: Pursuing a Quixotic Project,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.36, No.4, Jan 27, 2001.
• “Towards a Cross-national Communication Order in South Asia: An Agenda for the Future,” in B.C. Upreti(ed.), SAARC: Dynamics of Regional Co-operation in South Asia: Vol.II: Areas and Dimensions of Co-operation(New Delhi: Kalinga, 2000).
• “UGC‟s Disincentives for PhD,” Economic and Political Weekly, June 3, 2000.
• “Cleaning the Chaliyar River: Pollution Control or Jobs,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.35, No.3, January 15, 2000.
• “A Tragedy of Betrayals: Questions Beyond the LoC in Kashmir,” EPW, Vol.34, No.37, September 11, 1999.
• “The Balkans under the NATO Blitzkrieg,” The Radical Humanist, Vol.63 No.4, July 1999.
• “The CHT Peace Accord: A Trying Time for the Chakmas,” Indian Journal of Secularism, Vol.2, No.4, JanuaryMarch 1999.
• “From Liberation to Eternity,” EPW, Vol. XXXIII, No.15, April 1998.
• “Nuclear/Space Technology for Defence: The Indian Experience,” Kerala Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No.1,January-June 1997.
• “India- China Relations in the 1990s,” in K. Raman Pillai (ed.), India’s Foreign Policy in the 1990s: Challenges (New Delhi: Radiant Publishers, 1997).
• “China‟s Arms Acquisitions from Abroad,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies (London), Vol.26, No.1,1997.
• “Economics of Defense,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies (London), Vol. 25, No.2, 1996.
• “Political Economy of India‟s Third Worldism: From Post-colonial conditions to Neo-colonial captivity,”
  Kerala Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.1, No.1, January-June 1996.
• “Vizhinjam Riots Fishing for Higher Stakes,” Towards Secular India, Vol.1, No.3 July-September 1995.
• “The Destruction of Unique Ecosystem of Kochi Backwaters,” EPW,.30(29), 22 July 1995.
• “US Research on Human Guinea Pigs,” Mainstream, Vol.33, No.28, 3 June 1995.
• “The Principle of Ijtihad in Islam: The Reform Agenda of Vakkom Moulavi,” Kerala Padanangal No.5, 1995.
• “Kerala‟s Educational Bazaar,” Mainstream, Vol.33, No.15, 4 March 1995.
• “Perils of Iodisation and Salt Monopoly,” Gandhi Marg, Vol.16, No.4, January-March 1995.
• “A Sultan of Transparent Ingenuity,” Mainstream, Vol.31, No.38, 6 August 1994.
• “Power versus Environmental Protection,” The Radical Humanist, Vol.58, No.4, July 1994.
• “Pooyamkutty Project: Another Mega Madness,” Mainstream, Vol.31, No.25, 7 May 1994.
• “Universities in a Melting Pot,” Mainstream, 23 October 1993.
• “Political Economy of India‟s Arms Build-up,” Occasional Papers, School of International Relations, Mahatma
  Gandhi University, Vol.1, No.1, 1993.
• “Intifada: The Case of Unremitting Struggle,” The Radical Humanist, Vol. 56, No.11, February 1993.
  “Democracy in Pakistan: Its Perennial Strife for Survival,” in K.M. Mathew (ed.), Manorama Year Book 1990
  (Kottayam: M.M Publications, 1990).
• “Is Common Salt Dying Out,” Mainstream, Vol.17, No.15, 1989.
• “PepsiCo Project: Impending Dangers,” Mainstream, Vol.17, No.16, January 1989.
• “The Right to Die,” Kerala Feature, Vol.2, No.1, March 1987.
• “Empiricist Liberalism: Bertrand Russell‟s Perceptions of Politics,” Kerala Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 1,
  No.2, July 1986.
• “Threat Perceptions and Southern Air Command,” The Month, Vol.1, No.9, September 1984.
• “Herbert Marcuse,” The Month, Vol.1, No.8, August 1984.

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K.M.SEETHI
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School of International Relations and Politics
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam-Kerala, India
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