1 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI. K.M.SEETHI Phone: (Res.); (Mobile) Date of Birth: 28 May 1960

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1 1 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI K.M.SEETHI Phone: (Res.); (Mobile) Date of Birth: 28 May 1960 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Director ( ), Kottayam-Kerala, India Honorary Director (2012- ) KN Raj Centre for Planning and Centre-State Financial Relations Dean ( ) Faculty of Social Sciences Director of Research ( ) Director ( ) Professor (2005- ), Kottayam-Kerala, India Chairman (2009- ) Centre for Cross-National Communication in South Asia (CCCSA) Coordinator (2009- ) K.P.S. Menon Chair for Diplomatic Studies Chairman ( ) Board of Studies, Chairman ( , ) Board of Studies in Political Science, Editor, South Asian Journal of Diplomacy General Editor, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations Editor, Journal of Political Economy and Fiscal Federalism

2 2 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI EDUCATION PhD: Security Considerations in South Asia: A Case Study with Special Reference to India-Pakistan Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Kerala M.A: Political Science (First Rank [1983] University of Kerala) INTERNATIONAL VISIT/EXPERIENCE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA) ANNUAL CONVENTION at Louisiana, New Orleans, USA, during February 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 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, 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 30 years of teaching and research experience at the,, India Subject and Field of Study Areas of Interest International Relations Theory/South Asian Studies/India s foreign Policy and Relations/Defence and Strategic Studies/Human Security/Research Methodology International Relations Theory/The Gulf and South Asian Security/Foreign Policy /Political Theory/International Relations of South Asia/Human Security/Environment/Research Methodology

3 3 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI 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, ( ) Member, Academic Council, ( ) External Referee of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo Reviewer of Millennium Journal of International Studies (London School of Economics and PS) Expert, International Scholar Exchanges, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi Resource Person and External Expert, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, University of Delhi, Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, University of Madras, Chennai, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, University of Kerala, Central University of Gujarat, University of Calicut, Academic Staff College, University of Kerala; Academic Staff College, University of Calicut, University of Delhi, Jamila Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Sikkim Central University, Sikkim. 85 Papers presented in various national and International Seminars About 210 articles/features/commentaries/interviews/reviews were written in the Columns of The Hindu, The Economic Times, The New Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle, online journals such as The Diplomat, Countercurrents, Keralamonitor et al. Research Projects University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi-sponsored Major Research Project on Health, Environment and Human Security ( ) Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) Project on Statelessness, Citizenship and Human Security: A Study on the Repatriated Tamils in Kerala ( ) 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.

4 4 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. State and Civil Society Under Siege (Sage Publications, December 2015) co-author (with PM Joshy) 2. Coastal Security: Needed A New Look (KPS Menon Chair 2010) co edited (with K.R. Singh) 3. Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India s Foreign Policy (Orient Longman 2005/Orient Blackswan 2009) co edited (with Rajen Harshe) 4. Swinging Triangle: Trends and Issues in India s Relations with the Superpowers (MMSB Publishers 1984). ARTICLES IN ENGLISH (SELECT) The Global South and Non-Alignment: Challenges of Indian Diplomacy in the Gulf, Journal of Political Economy and Fiscal Federalism, Vol Pakistan: State, Civil Society and Political Islam, in Mathew Joseph C. (ed.), Pakistan and the Muslim World (New Delhi: Manohar 2015). Non-Proliferation Dynamic: American Soft-Containment of Iran and India, Countercurrents, 26 July Debating Colonial Hang-over, Countercurrents, 26 July Pakistan School Killing: South Asia s Killing Fields, Tehelka, 19 December A Jurist Extraordinaire, Tehelka, 20 December Negotiating for Security in South Asia, in C.Vinodan (ed.), South Asia in the Globalised World, New Delhi: New Century Publications. Law Proposes, and Politics Disposes: Questions Beyond/Beneath Checks And Balances Countercurrents, 3 September Conversion/Reconversion: Is the civil Society in Kerala Poised to Become a Testing Lab? Countercurrents, 26 December India s Connect Central Asia Policy, The Diplomat, 13 December China, Israel and India: Flexible Coalitions, The Diplomat, 24 November 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 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.

5 5 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI 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 Sufism and the Contemporary Challenges of Islam in South Asia, South Asian Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1) Social Sciences in Transition: Value-Rationality beyond Rigid Boundaries, Social Science Perspectives, March-June Obama s Hot Feeler Triggers More Confusion, Countercurrents, 21 May The Perils of Endosulfan, Economic Times, 26 April Endosulfan: Endgames in Geneva and New Delhi, Countercurrents, 24 April 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 Beyond Regions: Political Economy of India s Trans-South Asian Engagements, South Asian Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1) 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 Reinventing Public Sphere: Habermas s Sluice Model under Neoliberal Siege, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.2, No.1, January-July 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 M.N.V: The Scholar who Knew too Much, Mainstream, 31 October Civil Society-State Discourses: From Liberalism and Marxism to Neoliberalism and Neo-Marxism, WIB e- Monograph 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). Engaging with Modernity: Muslim Reform Movement in Kerala, Society and Secularism, Vol.1, No.3 May 2007.

6 6 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI Who Disowns the Working Class: A Workers Co-operative in Crisis, WIB e-monograph Series-7, 2006(Bangalore: Web-India-Books 2006). India and the Non-Aligned Movement: Moral Paradoxes of a Founding Member, Third World Recorder Vol Problematising South Asian Security: Internal-external dynamics, Human Rights Global Focus, Vol. 02, Number 04, Perils of Pesticide: Human and Environmental Costs of Endosulfan, Human Rights Global Focus, Vol. 02, Number 03, August Legend of Legends: Tributes to O.V. Vijayan, Keralamonitor June 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: Web- India-Books, 2004). Adivasis under State Terror: The Plight of Indigenous Communities in Kerala, keralamonitor Endless Miseries of Endosulfan, keralamonitor 2002 Business with Life and Organs, keralamonitor Kidney Trade: Ambiguous Response of Medical Community, Economic and Political Weekly, December 7, The Making of Terrorism and Islamism: Partners in Uneasy Peace and Unholy War, Indian Journal of Secularism (Mumbai), Vol.6, No.3, October-December 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 Clinical Drug Trials: Bioethics under Siege, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.36, No.34 August 25, 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, January 27, 2001.

7 7 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI 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, Cleaning the Chaliyar River: Pollution Control or Jobs, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.35, No.3, January 15, A Tragedy of Betrayals: Questions Beyond the LoC in Kashmir, EPW, Vol.34, No.37, September 11, The Balkans under the NATO Blitzkrieg, The Radical Humanist, Vol.63 No.4, July The CHT Peace Accord: A Trying Time for the Chakmas, Indian Journal of Secularism, Vol.2, No.4, January- March From Liberation to Eternity, EPW, Vol. XXXIII, No.15, April Nuclear/Space Technology for Defence: The Indian Experience, Kerala Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No.1, January-June 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, Economics of Defense, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (London), Vol. 25, No.2, 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 Vizhinjam Riots Fishing for Higher Stakes, Towards Secular India, Vol.1, No.3 July-September The Destruction of Unique Ecosystem of Kochi Backwaters, EPW,.30(29), 22 July US Research on Human Guinea Pigs, Mainstream, Vol.33, No.28, 3 June The Principle of Ijtihad in Islam: The Reform Agenda of Vakkom Moulavi, Kerala Padanangal No.5, Kerala s Educational Bazaar, Mainstream, Vol.33, No.15, 4 March Perils of Iodisation and Salt Monopoly, Gandhi Marg, Vol.16, No.4, January-March A Sultan of Transparent Ingenuity, Mainstream, Vol.31, No.38, 6 August Power versus Environmental Protection, The Radical Humanist, Vol.58, No.4, July Pooyamkutty Project: Another Mega Madness, Mainstream, Vol.31, No.25, 7 May Universities in a Melting Pot, Mainstream, 23 October Political Economy of India s Arms Build-up, Occasional Papers, School of International Relations, Mahatma Gandhi University, Vol.1, No.1, Intifada: The Case of Unremitting Struggle, The Radical Humanist, Vol. 56, No.11, February 1993.

8 8 RESUME/ K.M.SEETHI 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, PepsiCo Project: Impending Dangers, Mainstream, Vol.17, No.16, January The Right to Die, Kerala Feature, Vol.2, No.1, March Empiricist Liberalism: Bertrand Russell s Perceptions of Politics, Kerala Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 1, No.2, July Threat Perceptions and Southern Air Command, The Month, Vol.1, No.9, September Herbert Marcuse, The Month, Vol.1, No.8, August ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION Official Address Prof. K.M.SEETHI Director, Kottayam-Kerala, India Phone: (Res.); (Off); (Mobile) kmseethimgu@gmail.com Residential Address: No.14, Woodstock Phase II, Wexco Homes, Gandhinagar PO., Kottayam-Kerala India