Gulshan Dietl

Professor Gulshan Dietl is at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has served as the Chairperson, Centre for West Asian and African Studies and Director, the Gulf Studies Programme at her University. Her areas of teaching and research are domestic developments, foreign policies and security issues in the Gulf and West Asia. She has been a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York (1993-94), a Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998-99), a Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir (2004), a Visiting Professor at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (2010).

Her publications include The Dulles Era: America Enters West Asia (Lancer International, New Delhi, 1985), Through Two Wars and Beyond: A Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Lancer Books, New Delhi, 1991), Saudi Arabia: People, Politics and Policies (National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2006), and Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations ( Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2007; Co-edited). She has contributed book-chapters and articles which have appeared in International Studies, Strategic Analyses, India Quarterly, India International Centre Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, The Hindu, Times of India, South, Arabia, The Middle East, The Middle East International, Orient, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the COPRI Working Paper Series, the Gulf Studies Programme Occasional Papers Series among others.