Research Interns

Shreya is an intern at the Institute of Chinese Studies. Having graduated this year from Jindal School of International Affairs with a specialization in Defence and National Security Studies, she has published papers pertaining to the Chinese maritime interests. In a fast-moving competitive world, where geopolitics is interdependent on geostrategy and geoeconomics, she feels it is imperative to study state behaviour of expanding powers.

Parul Trivedi is currently pursuing her Masters in International Studies from School of International and Area studies at Goa University, Goa. She has completed her Bachelors Honors degree in the field of Political Science with a minor in English Literature from Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, M.P.

Upasana Ghosh joined ICS as a virtual research intern on October 1, 2021. She has completed her Post-Graduation in Political Science (Hons.) from Presidency University, Kolkata. Currently, she is pursuing diploma course in International Affairs and Diplomacy from Shastri Institute of Governance and Leadership (erstwhile Indian Institute of Governance and Leadership), Delhi and foreign language course in Mandarin from The School of Languages, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (Kolkata).She is interested in questions of foreign policy, diplomacy, geopolitics and geostrategic issues, with regard to rise of China, East Asian regional politics and challenges to the existing global order.  Previously, she has interned with Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (former Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis).

Arushi Singh has recently graduated from the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (GIR) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India.  Her areas of interest include the geopolitics of West Asia, geopolitical implications of great power competition in Africa, Russia’s foreign policy orientations, and emerging technologies. She is a content writer for The New Global Order, a Rome based think tank and NGO and a researcher at Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers.

I am currently a Research Intern at the Institute for Chinese Studies, New Delhi. I have completed my BA (Research) in International Relations from Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida. As part of my Bachelor's degree, I completed my Undergraduate Thesis titled "Civil-Military Relations in the XI Jinping Era: Building Professionalism of the PLA with Chinese Characteristics" in 2021