Course Scholars

Sourina Bej

Sourina Bej is a doctoral candidate in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Bonn. She has received the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung European International Cooperation (KAS-EIZ) scholarship for her doctoral study on climate migration, sustainability, and resilience among the rural labour migrants from the ecologically endangered Bengal Delta in India.

She has worked as a Research Associate at the School of Conflict and Security Studies in the National Institute of Advanced Studies, India. As a young researcher, she has been a network builder for the International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI) supported by the KAS-India office. She has contributed to the research focus of the NIAS Europe Studies, supported by the KAS-India office; writing regularly on issues such as the BREXIT, radicalisation, energy crisis and right-wing populism in Western Europe. Apart from simultaneously publishing on strategic issues impacting Europe and India, her specific research expertise lies in examining climate migration processes, group identities, and political structures, primarily in South Asia. She has co-edited and authored a book wherein she documented the dam protest movements in the strategic Himalayan borderland of India and China.

Prior, she has also been a journalist at the Times of India, writing on cultures and identities among migrant communities in Tamil Nadu, India.

 


Research Activities

28 April 2018
Commentary

India-Bangladesh: What if the BNP returns?
Aparupa Bhattacherjee and Sourina Bej
Mainstream, 28 April 2018


2 December 2017
Commentary

How Will the Quad Impact India’s Maritime Security Policy?
Sourina Bej
The Diplomat, 2 December 2017


15 July 2017
Commentary

What Trump's Afghanistan Policy Means for India?
Sourina Bej
The Diplomat, 15 July 2017


Read More
GP Commentaries
The UK: Domestic, regional and global challenges to the new Prime Minister
November 2022 | CWA # 844

Sourina Bej

Boris Johnson exits: The Unravelling of UK leadership in crisis
November 2022 | CWA # 841

Sourina Bej

Elections in Sweden
October 2022 | CWA # 811

Sourina Bej

The UK: Domestic, regional and global challenges to the new Prime Minister
September 2022 | CWA # 787

Sourina Bej

Four challenges ahead for President Macron
May 2022 | CWA # 734

Sourina Bej

Recent terror attacks in Europe: Five trends from England to Norway
October 2021 | CWA # 592

Sourina Bej

France: Paris Terror Trial
September 2021 | CWA # 562

Sourina Bej

Fresh election-call mean unending cycle of instability
June 2021 | CWA # 489

Sourina Bej

France:  Needs to rethink  the state-religion relation in battling extremism
December 2020 | CWA # 400

Sourina Bej

The Brexit Endgame: A Trade deal, but it is yet to be over for the UK-EU
December 2020 | CWA # 395

Sourina Bej

‘The yellow vests will triumph’: The middle and working class protests in France
September 2020 | CWA # 335

Sourina Bej

Despite the UK ban, it is not over yet for China. For three reasons.
August 2020 | CWA # 318

Sourina Bej

EU, minus the US, leads the global cooperation for the vaccine
May 2020 | CWA # 280

Sourina Bej

The Pangs of BREXIT: UK's Tough Transition in 2020
February 2020 | CWA # 222

Sourina Bej

Europe in 2019: Hard Brexit for the UK, Systemic Struggle for the EU
December 2019 | CWA # 194

Sourina Bej

As the Brexit deadline nears: Three Implications of Boris Johnson’s Election Call
October 2019 | CWA # 178

Sourina Bej

Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi: Multiple Deals, No Takeaways
October 2019 | CWA # 170

Sourina Bej

For the US, it was trade, tariff and talks
July 2019 | CWA # 140

Sourina Bej

From Moscow to Manila: Attack on Journalists, Public Protests and Culture of Impunity 
June 2019 | CWA # 134

Sourina Bej

GP Insights
The UK: New bill on illegal migration | Misguided patchwork to Europe's refugee problem

March 2023 | GP Insights # 696

Sourina Bej

The UK: After Boris Johnson’s resignation, a tight race for the next prime minister begins

July 2022 | GP Insights # 644

Sourina Bej

Europe: 'Pay for gas in rubles,' says Putin, EU leaders reject in unison

April 2022 | GP Insights # 626

Sourina Bej

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