Dr Bhumitra Chakma

Dr Bhumitra Chakma

Senior Lecturer, Director of South Asia Project

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • School of Politics and International Studies

Summary

Before joining the University of Hull, Bhumitra Chakma taught at the University of Dhaka and the University of Adelaide.

He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, a second Masters in International Relations at the International University of Japan, and his PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Bhumitra was a resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC, a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Affairs, NTU, Singapore, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.

He is the founder and director of South Asia Project.

Chakma's latest publications include - South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation - (Bristol University Press, 2020); (co-edited with Xiudian Dai) The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity: Sino-Indian rivalry in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He guest edited the special issue of Strategic Analysis on the theme - 'The BRI and India's Neighbourhood' - in 2019.

Recent outputs

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Book

South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation

Chakma, B. (2020). South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation. Bristol University Press

Book Chapter

Democratic transition and Pakistan's nuclear weapons

Chakma, B. (2015). Democratic transition and Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. In S. Gregory (Ed.), Democratic transition and security in Pakistan (234-251). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730813

Journal Article

The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh: Coping strategy of a small state

Chakma, B. (2019). The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh: Coping strategy of a small state. Strategic Analysis, 43(3), 227-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2019.1599567

Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh

Chakma, B. (2019). Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 49(1-2), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2018.1-2.8704

SAARC and region-building: is South Asia a region?

Chakma, B. (2018). SAARC and region-building: is South Asia a region?. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 14(2), 189-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2018.1478272

Research interests

The Politics of nuclear weapons - proliferation and non-proliferation, strategy, arms control and disarmament; Ethnic Studies - conflict, conflict transformation and peace-building; South Asian International Relations - foreign policies, strategic and security politics, regionalism, war and peace; International Relations Theory and Asian International Politics.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Chakma welcomes applications in

- Strategic and security issues

- Global nuclear politics

- Asia-Pacific security

- South Asian international relations

- South Asia's nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament

- International relations theory

- Ethnicity, ethnic conflict, conflict transformation and peace building

Completed PhDs

- Dr Zafar Khan

- Dr Yaojia Li

- Dr Muzaffir Hussain

Current PhD students:

Mr Segbenou Mensah Boris

Mr Iftekharul Islam

Mr Mahmudur Rahman

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