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The World Today - October issueThe World Today - October issue
Monday 6 October 2008
The current financial crisis should come as no surprise, writes Dr Paola Subacchi in this month's The World Today....

Somali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International CommunitySomali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International Community
Thursday 2 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008 and threatens to disrupt international trade and...

Six Perspectives on the Georgia ConflictSix Perspectives on the Georgia Conflict
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Six new briefing notes from the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House offer analysis and insight on the...

Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
October, 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been...

Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable Forest Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October, 2008
Download Paper here (French version) This is a report of a meeting, Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable...

After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
September, 2008
The true driver of Russia's foreign agenda is the domestic situation. The Russian ruling class has returned to a...

The Paradoxical Regional Implications of Russian Actions in Georgia
September, 2008
Across Eurasia, recent events have complicated the security agenda. Russia's show of force may deter external actors from contesting...

 

 

Dr Marie Lall

Dr Marie Lall

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

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Expertise

  • Politics of South Asia
  • India and Pakistan: Political economy, foreign policy formulation including pipeline diplomacy, Indo-Burmese relations, migration and Diaspora politics
  • Education policy with regard to gender, race and social exclusion issues in developed and developing countries
  • Education policy in India and Pakistan
  • Formation of National Identity in South Asia;

Projects

  • Changes of Indian foreign policy vis-à-vis its neighbours under the BJP government
  • India's pipeline diplomacy - focus on Myanmar, Iran and Pakistan
  • The radicalization of India's Diaspora
  • Indian textbooks project
  • Pakistan's education reform
  • Project on achievement of children of Asian origin (forthcoming)

Recent Publications

2007/8 (forthcoming)

  • 'Globalization and the fundamentalization of curricula: lessons from Inida' in Camp-Yeakley, Hopson and Boakari (eds.) Power, Voice, and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Globalized Societies, Elsevier.
  • 'Pakistan today' inDeRouen, K. and Bellamy, P. , International Security and Society.
  • 'Educate to hate - the use of education in the creation of antagonistic national identities in India and Pakistan', in Compare.
  • 'Diaspora and Homeland Politics: Comparative Experiences of mobilisation for Hindutva and Khalistan' with Shinder Thandiin Leclerc, E. (ed.) Indian Diasporas, Manohar, Delhi.

2006

  • Indian Students in Europe - Trends, constraints and Prospects - living in the age of migration. ENCARI Briefing Paper.(http://www.encari.eu/papers/Indian_students_in_Europe.pdf)
  • 'Indo-Myanmar Relations in the era of Pipeline Diplomacy' in Contemporary South East Asia, Vo 28, Number 3.

2005

  • 'Education in India at the Crossroads' in South Asian Journal, number 10, Oct-Dec 2005.
  • 'Institutional attempts to build a 'national' identity in India: Internal and external dimensions' with K. Adeney in India Review Vol.4 n.3.
  • 'Indian education policy under the NDA government' in K. Adeney and L. Saez (eds.) Coalition politics and Hindu nationalism, Routledge, London.
  • 'The Challenges for India's education system', Chatham House Briefing Paper

Experience

2006 - Date Lecturer, Institute of Education
2003 - 2006 Visiting Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
2002 - Date Principal Researcher, Education Policy Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London



Broadcast Experience

Some

Languages

English, German, French - broadcast Spanish, Portuguese and basic Hindi - not for broadcast