Dr Saloni Kapur is an Assistant Professor of International Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at FLAME University. Her research falls at the crossroads of South Asian Studies, International Relations, and International Security Studies.. In particular, she is interested in:
Dr Kapur holds a PhD in International Relations from Lancaster University. She spent a semester at the University of Minnesota’s College of Natural Resources as a High Ability Non-Resident Scholar in Fall 2001, when the September 11 attacks took place. This stimulated her interest in international security studies and led her to pursue an MA in International Relations at the University of Warwick.
Before coming to FLAME, Dr Kapur taught at Symbiosis International University and Lancaster University. She was also a Co-ordinator of the Internship Programme at the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University. Before her academic career, she worked at Control Risks and International SOS at their offices in London and New Delhi, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.
Dr Kapur is currently working on a research project studying how decoloniality translates into the Indian context in the form of Hindutva; She recently completed two research projects on the security linkages between South and West Asia through the prism of regional security complex theory. She is the recipient of Research Grants from FLAME University and an Early Career Researcher Global South Bursary from the British International Studies Association. She is a Fellow of the Richardson Institute.
Dr Kapur is the co-editor of Regional Security in South Asia and the Gulf (Routledge, 2023) and Securitisation in the Non-West (Routledge, 2019). She is the author of Pakistan after Trump: Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World (Cambridge Scholars, 2021). Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Global Discourse, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and Contemporary South Asia. She has presented her research at prestigious international forums such as the International Studies Association, the British International Studies Association, the Richardson Institute, the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, the Institute for Political and International Studies of Iran, and Gateway House.
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