Pankaj K Jha is Director (Research) with Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). He had worked as Deputy Director with National Security Council Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office. He worked as Research Fellow with ICWA for two years and was Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) for six years (2005-2011). He has done his PhD from the Centre of Southeast Asia and Southwest Pacific Studies (now known as Indo-Pacific Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and is an Economics-Major from Delhi University. He has published research papers and articles in Strategic Analysis, Indian Defence Review, Indian Ocean Digest, World Focus, India Quarterly and South Asian Politics. He has given lectures in Institute for South Asian Studies (ISAS), Singapore; Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), Sydney University; Kunming University, Yunnan University, etc. His latest book is on India and China in Southeast Asia: Competition or Cooperation, 2013. Dr.