Dr Alvite Ningthoujam is currently an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis School of International Studies, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India. He also served as a Consultant at the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), New Delhi. From 2014 to 2017, he was Senior Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. He holds Ph. D., from the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for his doctoral thesis on “Israel’s Arms Exports and the US Factor: Case Studies of China and South Africa, 1967-2000.”