Dr Angana Kotokey is a Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. She holds a PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) India. She completed her M.Phil. as a recipient of M.Phil. Research Fellowship issued by the Ministry of External Affairs, India from the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Calcutta University (Kolkata). Angana has completed her Master’s from Pondicherry University in South Asian Studies. She graduated in Political Science from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has attended several national and international conferences and workshops on her area of research and presented papers at SOAS University of London, George Mason University, Russian-Armenian University, University of Copenhagen, Roma Tre University etc. She has written book chapters and also published research papers including in peer reviewed international journals like the Asian Affairs: The Journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs (published by Routledge), Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Routledge), The Round Table: the Common Wealth Journal of International Affairs (Routledge) etc. Her core areas of research are Geopolitics, Afghanistan, Political Islam, Arab World and Pakistan.

Contributions 
Iran's Border Wall and the Evolving Dynamics with Afghanistan Introduction With a shared fragile border stretching over 900 kilometres, Iran and Afghanistan have historically maintained complex ties characterized by shifting political landscapes, and regional and national interests. However, the Ta...

Three Years of Taliban Governance: Evaluating Changes and Challenges in Afghanistan Unanticipated but the Taliban have completed their three years in power in Afghanistan since the United States' chaotic withdrawal in August 2021, ending twenty years of conflict in the country. After grand celebrations marked at Kabul’s former US ...

Bhutan’s Climate Change Response: Key Drivers and Strategic Initiatives Introduction Climate change has become one of the most severe and complex challenges in the 21st century. While the world’s poorest countries bear little or no responsibility for climate change, they face grave social and economic cons...

Navigating Pakistan’s Federal Budget 2024-25 and its Key Parameters On 12 June Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb unveiled the country’s Federal budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025, a day after the Ministry of Finance came out with the Economic Survey Report for the outgoing year 2023-2024. The ...

Between Isolation and Engagement: The Afghan Taliban’s Diplomatic Dilemma Introduction With the Afghan Taliban back as the new rulers of Kabul since August 2021, the regime has found itself caught in a diplomatic conundrum—maintaining isolationism on the one hand and engaging bilaterally with its regional ne...

Event Reports 
Pakistan Study Group Report - June 2024 A meeting of the Pakistan Study Group (PSG) was held in hybrid mode on 20 June 2024. The main items on the agenda were the developments in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s Federal Budget-2024-25, Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China and the withering of ...

Roundtable on The Elections in UK and France and its Implications for India On 08 August, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a Roundtable on "The Elections in UK and France and its Implications for India". The panel included Professor Gulshan Sachdeva, Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar and Swasti Rao. The discus...

Interaction with the Joint Secretary of MEA, J.P Singh On 01 August, the Joint Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs, J.P Singh visited the Vivekananda International Foundation to brief on the Third Doha Meeting on Afghanistan which took place at Doha. The meeting was attended by Dr. Arvind Gupta, Di...

Interaction with Delegation from the UNAMA On 19 April, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) delegation led by Ms Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Afghanistan and Head of the UNAMA visited the Vivekananda International Fo...

Pakistan Elections and its fallout A meeting of the Pakistan Study Group (PSG) was held in hybrid mode on 14 February 2024. The main items on the agenda were—the Results of the Pakistan Elections, Government formation after the Elections and the Probabilities of Coalition between Pa...

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