Alka Acharya, PhD Assistant Director & Fellow Institute of Chinese Studies

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Alka Acharya, PhD
Assistant Director & Fellow
Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)
&
Assistant Editor, China Report

8/17, Sri Ram Road
Delhi, INDIA
Tel: [phone] (R) 23830789 (O) 23938202
Mob: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]

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AREAS OF INTEREST

India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation and the Chinese strategic response to the post-cold
war regional architecture, with special reference to China’s neighbourhood

EDUCATION

Ph. D (1991) School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title of thesis: Historiography in Communist China: A Case Study of Confucius and the
Anti-Confucius Campaign

M.Phil (1984) Chinese Studies, School of International Studies, JNU
Title of Dissertation: The Anti-Confucius Campaign: A Study of Its Implications
For Politics, Ideology and Historiography

M.A. (1980) International Relations, School of International Studies, JNU

CURRENT & PAST POSITIONS

Director, Institute of Chinese Studies (New Delhi) w.e.f. 1 April 2012 (on Deputation from
the Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Professor, Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU

Member, Editorial Board, China Report (New Delhi) Since January 2015

Member, Editorial Board, Diaspora Studies (New Delhi) (Since 2013)

Member, Editorial Board, JAIR Journal of International Relations (Kolkata) (Since 2014)
Member, Academic Council, MEI@ND (Middle East Institute@New Delhi) (Since April
2013)

Editor, China Report (New Delhi) 2007-2014
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Member, National Security Advisory Board, Government of India, January 2011- January
2013

Chairperson, Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU, 1st February 2006-31st January 2008

Member, India-China Eminent Persons Group, Government of India, 2006-2008

Member, National Security Advisory Board, Government of India,

January 2006- January 2008

Member, Board of Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, New
Delhi, March 2009-March 2012

Member, Academic Council and Court, JNU, New Delhi

Member, Centre Committee, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies,
JNU, New Delhi (April 2010-March 2012)

International Students Advisor, JNU, New Delhi (October 2010-September 2012)

Member, Joint Advisory Committee, ICSSR-NRCT (Indian Council of Social Science
Research – National Research Council, Thailand) 2007-2009

Member, Editorial Board, International Studies (2006–2008)

Member, Security Advisory Committee, JNU, New Delhi ((2002-2003 and w.e.f 29th May
2008-July 2011)

Member, Classroom Renovation Committee, JNU (2006-2009)

Member, Advisory Committee, School of International Studies, JNU, 2007-2008

Member, Academic Council, JNU, 2006-2008

Faculty Advisor and Supervisor, MA Programme, 2002-2007

PUBLICATIONS

Books

China and India: Politics of Incremental Engagement Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd,
New Delhi, 2008

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G.P. Deshpande and Alka Acharya eds., Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 Years of India-
China , Tulika, New Delhi, 2001

Chapters in Books

‘Perspectives on China’s Engagement with SAARC’ in India’ in Srabani Roy Choudhury
ed, Japan-SAARC Partnership: A Way Ahead New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2014 (pp. 56-69)

‘The Strength of Weakness: The Context and Construction of Chinese Foreign Policy,’
in Amb. M. Rasgotra ed. The New Asian Power Dynamic (Sage Publications, New Delhi
2007)

‘Australia and China in a Changing World,’ in D. Gopal ed., Australia in the Emerging
World Order Evolving Australia-India Relations (Shipra Publications, Delhi 2002) pp. 138-
49.

Introductory theoretical essay on Comparative Politics, in GP Deshpande and Alka Acharya
eds., Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001, pp.
203-267 (with G.P. Deshpande)

‘The State and Human Development: Health and Education,’ in G.P. Deshpande and
Alka Acharya eds., Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China, Tulika, New
Delhi, 2001, pp. 203-267. (with Rama Baru and Geetha B. Nambissan)
‘PRC-India Relations: An Overview,’ in Kanti Bajpai and Amitabh Mattoo eds., The
Peacock and the Dragon : India and China in the 21st Century, Har-Anand Publications Pvt.
Ltd, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 168-198.
‘From ‘World-View’ to ‘Nation-View’ : Fifty Years of Sino-Indian Interaction,’ in Usha
Thakkar and Mangesh Kulkarni eds., India in World Affairs : Towards the 21st Century,
Himalaya Publishing House Mumbai, 1999. (with G.P. Deshpande) pp. 79-104.

Articles

‘The Strategic Stasis in India-China Relationship’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
XLVIII, Nos. 26-27, 29 June, 2013, pp. 25-29.
‘Its Onwards for Sino-Indian Ties’, Special to the BRICS Post, 25 October 2013.
http//thebricspost.com/its-onwards-for-sino-indian-ties/#.UohoXRaBJ&c
‘The ‘New Regionalism’ and the China Factor in Rising India’s ‘Look East Policy’, in
FPRC Journal-No.8, 2012, Focus: India’s Look East Policy, Foreign Policy Research
Centre New Delhi (India) www.fprc.in
‘Course Correction: An Analysis of the Origins and Implications of the Sino-Indian
Agreements of 2003 and 2005,’ China Report, Vol. 47, No.2, 2011, pp. 159-172. Special
Issue: Revisiting the China-India Border Dispute, Guest Editor Dibyesh Anand
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‘One Step Forward, Three Steps Backward: The Danger of Drift in India-China
Relations,’ Economic and Political Weekly, September 7-13, 2010
‘Whither India-China Relations,’ Economic and Political Weekly, November 7-13, 2009
‘Dealing with a Rising Power: India-China Relations and the Reconstruction of Strategic
Partnerships,’ in Derek Mitchell ed., Bridging Strategic Asia – Conclusion: The United
States, Japan and India Conference proceedings published as a full report on the website of
the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, US. Publisher CSIS, 16
December 2008 csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090201_bsa_acharya.pdf
‘The Seventh China-India-Russia Academic Trilateral Conference, 24-25 October 2007,
Moscow: A Report,’ China Report, Vol. 44, No. 4, October-December 2008, pp.347-360
‘An Analysis of the Prospects of Trilateral Cooperation in the Light of the Experiences of
the Trilateral Conferences,’ China Report, Vol. 44, No. 4, October- December 2008, pp.387-
390
‘Asia’s Rising Giants: Current Status and Future Prospects of India-China Relations,’
International Politics – Biannual Journal (Tehran) Vol. I, No.II, Summer-Autumn 2008, pp. 95-
114
‘India-China Relations: Toward a Shared Vision,’ Economic and Political Weekly, January
26-February 2008, pp.10-13
‘Yindu Zongli fanghua zhizai gongfu zhanlue huoban guanxi’ in the World Economic
Review section of China Business Review, (Beijing) January 14, 2008
‘A Partnership of Global Significance,’ Economic and Political Weekly, December 2, 2006,
pp. 4934 – 4936
‘Changing Dynamics in the Taiwan Strait: One Country, Many Systems,’ International
Studies (New Delhi) 42:3&4, 2005, pp. 227-246
‘Regional Imbalances in China’, Seminar (New Delhi) No. 562, June 2006, pp. 26-30
(Special Issue on India’s Changing Relations with China)
‘Aspects and Issues in Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy’, World Focus, March 2006,
No. 315, pp. 25-29
‘India-China Relations: Beyond the Bilateral’, Economic and Political Weekly, May - 2005 pp.
1421-24.
‘Rectifying Relationships: Wen Jiabao’s South Asian Tour’, Economic and Political Weekly,
April 2- 8- 2005 pp. 1421-24
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‘India-China Relations – The Territorial Imperative: Past and Present’, Economic and
Political Weekly, November 8-14, 2003 (with GP Deshpande)
‘Talking of and with China’, Economic and Political Weekly, July 2003 (with GP Deshpande)
‘Political Cooperation between India, China and Russia: Problems and Prospects’, China
Report, Vol. 38, No1, Jan-Mar 2002, pp. 49-55
‘Ritual and reality: Li Peng’s India Visit’, in Economic and Political Weekly, February 2001
‘A Measured Tread to the Future’, in Seminar, No. 487, March 2000
‘A Season of Opportunities: China’s Impending Entry to the WTO’, China Report, Vol.36:2,
2000. (with G.P. Deshpande).
‘Irresistible Attraction and Implacable Reality: The President’s China Visit’, in Economic
and Political Weekly, June 17-23, 2000
‘Two Eras and After: People’s Republic of China at 50’ in Economic and Political Weekly,
October 9-15, 1999
‘Sino-Indian Relations since Pokhran II’, in Economic and Political Weekly, June 5-11, 1999
‘China : Leading the Region and leading the World - China’s White Paper on National
Defence - An Analysis’, Economic and Political Weekly Nov. 7 - 13, 1998
‘China : Consensus for Reform and Reforming the Consensus’, Economic and Political
Weekly Oct. 11, 1997
‘Prelude to the Sino Indian War : Aspects of the Decision Making Processes during 1959 -
62’, China Report Vol 33, No. 1, Jan -March 1997
‘Jiang Zemin’s India Visit’, Economic and Political Weekly 28 December 1996
‘Japan’s Defence Capability in Transition’, Asian Strategic Review, (IDSA New Delhi) August
1992
‘China’s Arms Sales : The Fulcrum of its South Asia Policy’, Strategic Analysis, May 1992
‘Human Rights, the Changing World and the Chinese Dilemma’, Strategic Analysis,
November 1991
‘The Sino-Soviet Summit : Some Salient Aspects’, Strategic Analysis, August 1991
‘China and the Changing World Order : Shifting Priorities in Defence and Diplomacy’,
Strategic Analysis, May 1991
‘Regional Conflict and Security in the 1990s : The Case of South Asia’, Strategic Analysis,
February 1991
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‘Crisis in the Gulf : Fallout for China’, Strategic Analysis, October 1990
‘The Rise and Fall of the Strategic Triangle : China’s Relations with the Superpowers’,
Strategic Analysis, June 1990
INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL
SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS/LECTURES

Made a presentation in the panel on ‘Geopolitics and International Relations’ in the First
High-level International Forum of Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) organized by the Xi’an
Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, on 22nd January 2015.
Presented a paper on ‘Contemporary Perspectives on China in India’, at an international
conference on Adjustment of India’s Look East Policy in the New Context, organized by the
Institute of Indian and Southwest Asian Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi,
19th January 2015.
Presented a paper at a national conference on India, the US and China: Shaping the 21st
Century organized by Deccan Herald in Delhi, 13 December 2014.

‘Globalization’s Undercurrents and Regional Crescendos: New Dynamics Shaping
India-China Relations in the 21st Century’, at the SIS-ICWA Dialogue 2014, India in the
Emerging Global Order: Political, Strategic and Economic Dynamics, 10-12 November 2014.

Delivered two lectures on ‘India-China Relations: Historical Overview and Current
Situation’ and ‘The domestic dimensions of China’s Rise’, at the Academic Staff College,
Mizoram University, 1-2 November 2014.

‘China Factor in India’s ‘Look East Policy’’, at an international conference on North East
in India’s Look East: Issues and Opportunities organized by the Jadhavpur Association of
International Relations, in collaboration with IIT Guwahati, at Guwahati, 28-30 October 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Geo-political and Geo-economic factors driving China’s outlook
towards the South Asian Region’, at a seminar on The Geo-Strategic Importance of the
South Asian Region organized by the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, 20
October 2014.

Presented a paper on ‘Political and Cultural Issues in India China Relations’, at the
ICWA-CPIFA India-China Track II Dialogue in Session III on India-China Bilateral
Relations, at the Sapru House, New Delhi, 10 October 2014.

Presented a paper titled ‘Expanding Dimensions of the RIC Engagement in the Context of
the New Sub-Regionalism’ at the 13th Russia-India-China Trilateral Academic Conference in
Moscow, 02-04 July 2014.

Panelist on the theme of ‘Re-envisioning India-China Studies’ organized by The India
China Institute, The New School, New York, 14 April 2014.

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Delivered a lecture on ‘China and the New Global Order’, at the Academic Staff College,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 April 2014.

Delivered a lecture in the University Special Lecture Series titled ‘China and SAARC –
Dimensions of an Enlarging Engagement’ at the Department of Chinese, Sikkim University,
4 April 2014.

Presentation in the panel on ‘The India-China Border Conflict: What are the next Steps’
in the 3rd Regional Security Roundtable organized by the Lee Kuan School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore, Singapore, 27 February-1 March 2014.

Panel Discussion on ‘India-China Ties: 25 years after the Deng-Rajiv Talks’, organised by
the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in association with the Centre for Policy Research,
New Delhi, on 21st December 2013.

India-China Bilateral Relations, in the Training Course for the 2013 IFS Probationers,
Foreign Services Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, on 20th December 2013.

Internal Situation in China, in the Training Course for the 2013 IFS Probationers, Foreign
Services Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, on 19th December 2013.

China’s Rise and its global and regional impact, 8th Special Course for ASEAN Diplomats,
Foreign Services Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, on 4th December 2013.

Rising China, Professional Course for Foreign Diplomats, Foreign Services Institute,
Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, on 21st October 2013.

Keynote presentation in the session on ‘Security in Asia’ at the 3rd Berlin Foreign Policy
Forum organized by the Korber Stiftung in association with the Federal Foreign Office,
Berlin, 25-26 November 2013.

Made a presentation titled ‘Perspectives on China’s Engagement with SAARC in India’,
Japan-SAARC Partnership: Way Ahead, JNU-SPS International Conference, organised by the
Centre for East Asian Studies (Japanese Division) School Of International Studies, JNU in
collaboration with Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan on 14-15 November 2013.

Made a presentation in the session titled ‘China’s role in Africa’, National Conference on
BRICS in Africa: Implications for Anglophone and Francophone Africa organized by the
UGC Area Studies Programme on Africa, Centre for African Studies, School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in collaboration with Policy Research Institute of
African Studies Association of India (PRIASA) at SIS, JNU on 30th September 2013.
Made a presentation in the session titled ‘How to Deepen China-SAARC cooperation in the
framework of guidelines at SAARC’, at an international conference on China-SAARC
Relations: Towards a Closer Partnership organized by the China Institute of International
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Studies (CIIS) and Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS) in Shanghai, 28-31
August 2013.
Invited to chair a session on in an international conference titled China-South Asia Think
Tanks Forum, organised by the CIIS, CICIR, YASS and SASS, in Kunming, China, 6-7 June
2013.
Presented a paper titled ‘New Directions in India’s China Policy: Glimmerings of a new
Strategic Imagination during the UPA II Regime?’ at the Indian Council of Social Science
Research-Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (ICSSR-CASS) Joint Seminar on Sino-Indian
Cooperation: New Opportunities, New Ideas, in Beijing, 16-17 April 2013.
Represented the Institute of Chinese Studies (which is a Founder Member) at the BOAO
Forum for Asia, Hainan, China, 5-7 April 2013.
Presented a paper titled ‘The Hu-Wen Era and the UPA II Regime in India: Unfolding
Strategic Perspectives’, at an international Conference on India and China in the 20th and
21st centuries: Where do History and International Relations Meet? organized by the Institute
for Chinese Studies, Oxford, 26-27 March 2013
Presented a paper titled ‘The 18th Party Congress: Implications for and Impact on China’s
External Relations’, at a national seminar on Leadership Changes in China: Domestic and
External Impact organised by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) in collaboration
with the University of Madras and Centre for Asia Studies, Chennai, on 2 March 2013
Delivered the keynote address at a national conference on ‘China’s Engagement with South
Asia: Regional and Global Implications’, organised by the South Asia Studies Centre,
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, on 4-5 February, 2013
Presented a paper titled ‘India’s Look East Policy & China: Can a Trade or Business
Initiative succeed in reducing conflict in Northeast India?’ at a national seminar titled
Sustaining Peace In Northeast India: Changing Dimensions organized by the Centre for
Development & Peace Studies, Guwahati, on 13-14 February 2012.
‘China’s Rise, the Emerging World Order and Implications for India’, Professional
Course for Diplomats, organized by the Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External
Affairs) New Delhi, on 31 January 2013.

‘India-China Relations in the 21st century’, Professional Course for Diplomats, organized
by the Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External Affairs) New Delhi, on 27 February
2013.

‘Outcome of the 18th CPC Congress: Influence on China’s External Policy’, National
Seminar, “Coping with a Rising China: Indian Perspectives”, Asia Centre, Bangalore, 22
December 2012.
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Presented a paper on ‘The Rise of China and Its Consequences for Asia’ at an international
seminar on ‘Security, Sustainability & Society: An India-Australia Dialogue’ organized by
The Australia India Institute (Canberra) and the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, on 5-6
December 2011.

‘Will the 21st Century be that of China?’ at an international conference on ‘The Rise of
China: Policy, Parameters and Prospects’, organised by the Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam, Kerala, 1-3 November, 2012.

Delivered a lecture in the 6th Special Course for ASEAN Diplomats titled ‘Rising China:
Implications for World Order and Stability’, organized by the Foreign Service Institute
(Ministry of External Affairs) New Delhi, on 2nd December 2011.

Was invited as Chief Guest by the Heritage School, Gurgaon, to address the participants in the
Second Conference of the Inter-School Model United Nations Sessions, 25th November
2011.

Led the ICS delegation to the Eleventh Academic Trilateral China-India-Russia
Conference organised by the China Institute of International Studies, held in Beijing, from
14-17 November 2011.

Made a presentation titled, ‘The New Regionalism and China in India’s Look East Policy’
at the Fourth All India Conference of China Studies, University of Hyderabad, November 8-
9, 2010

Was invited by the ICSSR to make a presentation on Potential Cooperation between India
and China in the framework of BRICS to a visiting delegation from the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences (CASS) China, in New Delhi, 2 November, 2011

Was resource person and chaired a session at China Conversations: Inaugural
Interdisciplinary Symposium for Emerging Scholars, organized by the India China
Institute, The New School (New York) in partnership with Centre for Policy Research, Centre
for East Asian Studies (SIS, JNU) and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi,
31 October 2011

Was a member of the ICS delegation which visited Beijing and Shanghai to interact with think
tanks and scholars under the ICS-CICIR Agreement for Scholarly Exchanges, 19-22
September 2011

Made a presentation titled ‘The China Factor in India’s Regional Strategy vis-à-vis
southeast Asia and the Pacific’ at an international seminar organized by the Jadavpur
Association of International Relations, on India’s Constructive Engagement with Asia in the
21st Century in Kolkata, August 17-19, 2011.
Was invited by the UGC to be part of a three-member team todraft the concept note, chair a
session and prepare the final report, in a two-day Convention on UGC Area Studies
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Programmes, ‘Looking Back, Looking Ahead’, held on May 31-June 1, 2011 at the India
International Centre, New Delhi
Was a discussant to a paper by a Chinese participant titled, ‘Mao, Zhou and the Chinese
Border War of 1962’ in an international conference on India and the Cold War: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives, organized by the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in
collaboration with the Centre of Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU, from 17-
18 December, 2010 in New Delhi
Made a presentation titled, ‘Recent Scholarship on India-China Relations’ at the Third All
India Conference of China Studies Kolkata, December 20-21, 2010
Delivered a lecture in the 7th Special Professional Course for Afghan Diplomats titled
‘China’s Rise, the Emerging World Order and Implications for India’, organised by the
Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External Affairs) New Delhi, on 8th December 2010.
Made a presentation in a workshop titled ‘Wen Jiabao’s Forthcoming India Visit : A
Curtain Raiser’ organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies in collaboration with the Indian
Council of World Affairs at Sapru House, New Delhi on 3rd December 2010
Delivered a lecture titled, ‘Coping with a Rising China’ at the Doon University, Dehradun
on the 25th September 2010.
Presented a paper titled ‘Educational Cooperation between India and China: Scope and
Possibilities’ at a national seminar in Hyderabad on India-China Relations: 60 Years of
Cooperation in Economy & Business, Education and Culture, organized by the Gitam School
of International Business, Gitam University, Visakhapatnam, (in collaboration with the
Embassy of China, India) on November 12, 2010.

Made a presentation titled ‘Bilateral Relationships Within the Russia-India-China
Trilateral: India and China’, at the Tenth Academic Trilateral China-India-Russia
Conference organised by the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
held in Moscow, from 21-23 September 2010.

Made a presentation titled ‘Understanding the China Challenge’ at a National Seminar On
India's Foreign Policy: Challenges In The New Millennium organised by The Department of
Political Science, Lucknow University, on 17 April 2010

Delivered a lecture on India-China Relations in the Vertical Interaction Courses (VICs) for
Senior IPS Officers on Main Currents in India’s Foreign Policy organized by the Foreign
Service Institute (MEA) New Delhi, 9 April 2010

Delivered a lecture on ‘An Overview of China’s Current Situation’ to the international
delegates at the Asia Regional Meeting of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) at
Dharamsala, 29th March 2010.

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