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SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY

A University Established by SAARC Nations

SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY

A University established by SAARC Nations

Anmol Mukhia

Assistant Professor
PhD (Jilin University, 2019)

Contact Details

anmolmukhia(at)sau.int
South Asian University, New Delhi, India
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Profile

Dr. Anmol Mukhia is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Jilin University, China, supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) and the Chinese Government Scholarship. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is also a Lead Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Bandung: Journal of Global South (SCOPUS/Q1) on “The Greater Himalayas, ASEAN-in-Indo-Pacific and the Global South: Mountain-Riverine Geopolitics, Cross-Regional Ecologies, and Planetary Epistemologies” with Prof. Baiq Wardhani (Professor, Airlangga University, Surabaya), Dr Vinsensio Dugis (Director, Centre for ASEAN Studies, Indonesia), & Dr Pak Nung Wong (Editor-in-Chief & Professor, University of Bath, United Kingdom).


Dr. Mukhia is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he has taught at Christ University (Bangalore), Rashtriya Raksha University (Ministry of Home Affairs, Gujarat), Sikkim Manipal University (Sikkim) and Sikkim University (Sikkim). He is the recipient of the Global South Fellowship (2025) from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; the GP Deshpande Award (2023) from the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; Advanced Training Program for Young Diplomatic Talents (2019) from Fudan University, Shanghai; Young Researcher of China and Abroad (2019) at Sichuan University, Sichuan; Taiwan Study Camp for Future Leaders from South Asia (2013) from the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan.


He has published widely in prestigious academic journals indexed by SSCI, A&HCI, and SCI, including Bandung: Journal of Global South, Natural Resources Forum, Politics, Groups, & Identities, and Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is the author of Chasing a Blazing Fire in the Himalayas (White Falcon, 2021), Lead Editor of Green Power Politics and Climate Change: The Future of Environmental Politics in the Indo Pacific (Routledge Publication: London, 2026), and Editor of the Navigating Sustainable Energy Transition in South Asia (Springer Publications: Singapore, 2026).

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Jilin University, 2019)
School of International and Public Affairs, Jilin University, China. The Ph.D. topic is “Climate Diplomacy and Two-Level Approach in India’s Climate Negotiations”.
DOI:10.27162/d.cnki.gjlin.2019.001025

M.Phil. from Centre for East Asian Studies, [2012-2014].
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. MPhil thesis is on “Metaphorical Hegemony in North Korea-China Relations: Foreign Policy Perspectives during Kim Il Sung Era.”

M.A. in International Relations, [2010-2012].
Department of International Relations, Sikkim University, India. MA thesis is on “North Korea Nuclear Programme.”

B.A. in Political Science (Honours), [2007-2010].
Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling, India.

Research Interests

  • Theory of International Relations
  • Geopolitics in South Asia
  • Himalaya and IR Studies
  • Climate Diplomacy
  • Northeast and cross-border studies
  • China studies
  • Connectivity in South Asia

Recent Publications

Zou, X., Yu, L., & Mukhia, A. (2026), Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Governance: Lessons from Japan’s Experience in Managing Pollution, Philippine Political Science Journal, Vol. 46: 89-115, Brill Publications, ISSN: 2165-025X (online), ISSN: 0115-4451 (print). http://doi:10.1163/2165025X-bja10075 (SCOPUS)

Mukhia, A. (2026). CAN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM IN IR SHAPE FOREIGN POLICIES? A CASE OF NORTH KOREA-CHINA RELATIONS. AUSTRAL: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations, Vol. 14 (28): 215-235. https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-6912.142851 (SCOPUS)

Mukhia, A. (2025), Understanding Human Trafficking in the Eastern Himalaya: Case of India-Nepal and India-Myanmar Border, Journal of Underrepresented and Minority Progress, Vol. 9 (5): 31-52. (Print ISSN 2574-3465 & Online ISSN 2574-3481 https://doi.org/10.32674/chxe0132 (SCOPUS).

Mukhia, A. (2025), Positioning India’s Climate Politics: Individual Level of Analysis, Bandung: Journal of the Global South, Vol. 12 (3): 449-474, Brill Publications. ISSN: 2590-0013 (print) 2198-3534 (online) https://doi.org/10.1163/21983534-12030001 (SCOPUS) (Q1). 

Mukhia, A. and Manas (2025), India’s Connectivity Strategy in Central Asia: Navigating Geopolitics and Economic Opportunities, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies (JTMS). Vol. 2 (2): 46-60. ISSN 2288-6834 (print), https://doi.org/10.2307/48829819 (SCOPUS)

Rai, P., Tripathi, A., & Mukhia, A. (2025), Colonial Legacies and Regional Separatism: Comparative analysis of statehood demands in Coorg and North Bengal, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 114 (3): 301-320. Routledge Journal: Taylor & Francis. ISSN: 0035-8533 (print); 1465-4008 (online)  https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2025.2502442 (SCOPUS)

Mukhia, A. (2025), Connectivity Through a Small Corridor: New Integrated Check Post in Assam to Assist India–Bhutan Relations, Indian Journal of Public Administration, SAGE. https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561251401269

Mukhia, A. (2025), Mher Sahakyan (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations, Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 29 (3), Koninklijke Brill bv, ISSN: 1609-8498 (print) 1573-384X (online). https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02903012 (SCOPUS).

Mukhia, A. (2024), Making Sense of ‘Kalimpong’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 113 (3): 303–304, Routledge Journal: Taylor & Francis. ISSN: 0035-8533 (print); 1465-4008 (online) https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2024.2363049 (SCOPUS)

Mukhia, A. (2024), Climate Governance Paths for BRICS in the post-Paris Era, The Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol. 16 (3): 321-339, SAGE, ISSN: 0974-9101, http://doi.org/10.1177/09749101241244456 (SCOPUS). (Q2)

Mukhia, A. (2024). Silk Road to the Contact Zone: Protestant Movements in the Eastern Himalaya, SN Social Science, Vol. 4 (9): 2-22, Springer Nature. ISSN: 2662-9283 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023- 00816-2 (SCOPUS). (Q2).

Mukhia, A. (2024), The Poverty of Critical Theory in International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 37(3), 385–387, Routledge Journal: Taylor & Francis, 0955-7571 (print); 1474-449X (online) http://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2339502 (SCOPUS)

Mukhia, A. (2024). Multilateralism In The Indo-Pacific: Conceptual and Operational Challenges, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol. 11 (1): 150-53, SAGE, ISSN: 2347-7970 (print); 2349-0039 (online) http://doi.org/10.1177/23477970241230362 (SCOPUS). (Q1)

Mukhia, A. (2023). Maritime Security Complexes of the Indo-Pacific region, Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 31 (4), Pp. 655-656, Routledge Journal: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0958-4935 (print), 1469-364X (online) http://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2275988 (SCOPUS). (Q1).

Mukhia, A. (2023). Identity and elites in developmental politics: A case study of the “Gorkha” and “Gorkhaland” movements in the eastern parts of India, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Vol. 12 (3), Pp. 599-615, Routledge Journal: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 2156-5503 (print), 2156-5511 (online) https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2023.2224761 (SSCI) (Q1).

Mukhia, A. (2023). Book Review: Vijay Sakhuja and Pragya Pandey (Eds.), K. M. Panikkar and The Growth of a Maritime Consciousness in India, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 69 (3), Pp. 713-727, SAGE, ISSN: 0019-5561. https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561231166364 (SCOPUS). 

Mukhia, A. (2023). Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, SAGE, ISSN: 2456-0502 (online) https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X221146615 (SSCI). (Q1)

Mukhia, A. (2023). Revisiting the case of “blood-brothers”: A Constructivist Approach in North Korea-China Relations, Stosunki Miedzynarodowe-International Relations, Vol. 3 (1), F1000 Research limited, United Kingdom, ISSN 2754-2572.

Zhang, J., Zou, X., & Mukhia, A. (2023). Reconsidering India’s Climate Diplomacy and Domestic Preferences with a Two-Level Approach, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 15 (5): 671-689. Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN: 1756-8692, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2022-0088 (SCOPUS) (Q1).

Mukhia, A., Zou, X., (2022). Mapping India’s (Re) Connection to Eurasia. Russia in Global Affairs, Foreign Policy Research Foundation, Vol. 20 (2), Pp. 184-204. ISSN: 1810-6374 (print), 2618-9844 (online) https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-184-204 (SCOPUS). (Q1).

Zou, X., Pradhan, S., & Mukhia, A. (2021). Nepal’s hydropower development: Predicament and dilemma in policy-making. Natural Resources Forum, Wiley Online Library. Vol. 46 (1): 60-72. ISSN: 1477-8947. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12241 (SCOPUS). (Q1).

Mukhia, A. and Zou, X. (2017). BRICS in the Post-Paris era: Perspectives from India & China, Diplomatic   Insight; Aug. 2017, Vol. 10 (8): 27-28, ISSN: 2073-509X.

Mukhia, A. (2012). Korea’s Use of ‘Smart Power’: An Overview of Historical Development in the ‘Late Industrialisation’ Countries, Journal of Political Studies, University of North Bengal, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 1-14, ISSN 2278-4039, (Peer-reviewed). https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/379

Mukhia, A. (2025), “Chinese Nuclear Strategy and its Implication in Cold War 2.0” (Chapter) in an edited volume, Cold War 2.0 and India, LG Publishers Distributors, pp. 159-177

Mukhia, A. (2018), “China’s Two-Level Game in the Climate Change Negotiation” (Chapter) in an edited volume, China’s Foreign Relations and Security Dimensions, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, Pp. 145- 162. ISBN: 9780367735067 http://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507496 (SCOPUS).

Mukhia, A. (2016) “Safeguarding the ‘National Interest’ of Nepal: Analysis of India-China Relations from Social Constructivism” in an edited volume, Unique Asian Triangle: India-China-Nepal, G.B Books Publication and Distribution, New Delhi, Pp. 48-62. ISBN 978-93-83983-34-0. (peer-reviewed)

Mukhia, A. (2024), Reminiscences of a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) during the India China War in 1967, Indian Defence Review. 

Mukhia, A. “What N. Korea missed from China,” The Korea Times, 04 April 2016.

Mukhia, A. “The exigency of ‘Human Security in the COVID-19 Syndrome,” countercurrents.org, April 12, 2020. Available at https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/the-exigency-of-human-security-in-the-covid-19- syndrome/

Mukhia, A. “A Perceived Threat in the Russian-Ukraine Crisis,” NIICE Commentary 7662, 27 February 2022. Available at https://niice.org.np/archives/7662

Mukhia, A. “To kick our social media habit, let’s start with the adults,” South China Morning Post, 24 December 2025. Available at https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3337410/kick-our-social-media-habit-lets-start-adults

Mukhia, A. “South Asians have a unique place in Hong Kong” South China Morning Post, 17 January 2026. Available at https://www.scmp.com/opinion/letters/article/3340121/south-asians-have-unique-place-hong-kong

Recent Books

Mukhia, A. et. al, (2026), Navigating “Sustainable Energy Transition” in South Asia (Eds.), Springer Publication: Singapore. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819584802  

Mukhia, A. (2021), Chasing a Blazing Fire in the Himalayas, White Falcon Publication. (Reviewed in the Himalaya, 2026 https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/10759/14932 )

Awards & Honours

    • “Global South Fellow 2025” from the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong.
    • “GP Deshpande Award 2024” for the title, “Northeast China in Making a 'Unitary Multi-National State' for Korean Identity”, presented at the 2nd All India Conference of East Asian Studies, organised by the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi.
    • Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Chinese Government Scholarship for pursuing a PhD program at Jilin University, China, 2015-2019 (No.F.5-1/2015-ES.3).
    • Maulana Azad National Fellowship 2015-2017 for Minority Students under United Grant Commission (MANF- 2015-17- WES-60859).
    • “2019 Advanced Training Program for Young Diplomatic Talents certificate from Belt and Road Countries”, Fudan University, China, July 4, 2019.
    • PhD. Thesis “Excellent Certificate” from Jilin University, P. R. China, 2019.
    • Peking University “Certificate of Honour” [Awarded by Chinese Scholarship Council, Government of China], 2019.
    • “Young Researcher of China and Abroad” at Sichuan University, Jinjiang College, March 4-7, 2019.
    • “2013 Taiwan Study Camp for Future Leaders from South Asia” from The Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs [organised by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan], Dec. 23, 2013.

Last Updated : 16 Mar 2026