Sumitha Narayanan Kutty

Geopolitics, intervention, rising powers. Fellow @KCL_CGS @RSIS_NTU @ProjectSEPAD. via @warstudies @GeorgetownCSS. ഗഫൂർ കാ ദോസ്ത്.

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

🧵🚨Thrilled to end 2024 with this @ISQ_Jrnl piece with @walterladwig! 👉 https://t.co/xMV8fM1BNR

🇮🇳🌐 We measure India's foreign policy orientation in the post-Cold War era using a brand new dataset of its leaders' travel patterns from 1992-2019 ✈️

1/3

[Walter C. Ladwig III @walterladwig]

🚨 Big news! 🚨

@sumithakutty and I are excited to share our forthcoming article (open-access!) in @ISQ_Jrnl:

"Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s🇮🇳 Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel."🌏✈️

A🧵on what this is about 1/16

https://t.co/xPP2Fi2kY8

[9DASHLINE @9DashLine]

The Navigator — March issue out now!

This month:

• Middle East war shocks ripple across the Indo-Pacific
• States juggle energy, trade & security amid tightening constraints

Plus,

Our comprehensive regional roundup

Read here: https://t.co/qiX7gxjEFq

[Shamsheer Yousaf @shamsheeryousaf]

Our series #BreakingtheNets in @thewire_in wins two @sopasia awards. The first one in the Excellence in Reporting on Women's issues category. Many thanks to @pulitzercenter and @RNP_Foundation for their support.

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

I think I’ll start a thread of commercial satellite imagery of the aftermath of the India-Pakistan conflict. Feel free to send me things.

[Walter C. Ladwig III @walterladwig]

1/12 📊 New study alert!

I recently published an article in @FPA_Jrnl that challenges some of our understanding of how politicians engage with foreign security policy based on a study of the Indian Lok Sabha.
#ForeignPolicy #IndianPolitics
https://t.co/vkPk5bwFI4

[Walter C. Ladwig III @walterladwig]

With Prime Minister Modi traveling to France and the US, it is an appropriate time to re-share my research with @sumithakutty on the overseas travel of Indian PMs.

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

If you are an #ECR focused on #India’s diplomatic or security studies, please consider applying!

As a former participant, I cannot recommend this workshop (and its steering committee) enough. A very rare opportunity for constructive, personalised feedback on your work product.

[Rohan Mukherjee @rohan_mukh]

The 2025 Ashoka Diplomatic Studies Workshop for early-career researchers will be held at Ashoka University on 10-11 Oct. We welcome research on India's diplomatic studies using IR & historical approaches. Please submit a 250-word abstract and one-page CV by 10th March.

[King's India Institute @KingsIndiaInst]

What is emerging economic and strategic role of India and China in the Middle East?

Join us on Feb 5 with @nicoblar, @sumithakutty and @Mukherjee_Anit for a seminar on the India-China rivalry and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Sign up: https://t.co/hBtNdKDigC

[King's India Institute @KingsIndiaInst]

Event: The India-China rivalry and the Israel-Palestine conflict

On Feb 5 @nicoblar and @sumithakutty will speak on the economic and strategic role of India and China in Middle East

Register to attend: https://t.co/hBtNdKDQ6a @Kings_SGA

[Nicolas Blarel @nicoblar]

Are you in London on February 5 & want to hear abt the connections between the India-China rivalry & the Israel-Palestine conflict? Honored to talk abt & discuss these issues at @KingsIndiaInst with @sumithakutty & Anit Mukherjee from 5-6:30p https://t.co/WKFAhqEbV7

[William Reynolds @Anglo_Japan45]

As a follow up to my piece last week, @WarOnTheRocks were kind enough to invite me onto 'The Insider' to chat a bit more about my research on the topic.

Somehow manage to sneak Anglo-Japanese relations into it!

@KCL_CGS @warstudies @DSD_Kings @KCLSecurity

[War Studies @warstudies]

Does India lean toward revisionism or the status quo in its global engagements?

A new study by Sumitha Narayanan Kutty and Dr @walterladwig examines how the travel patterns of Indian leaders reflect the country’s strategic priorities.✈️

Learn more:
https://t.co/UIvz1QoHjI

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

New article from @sumithakutty & @walterladwig on foreign visits of Indian leaders and what it says about their changing priorities https://t.co/iS2LESMASH

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

🧵🚨Thrilled to end 2024 with this @ISQ_Jrnl piece with @walterladwig! 👉 https://t.co/xMV8fM1BNR

🇮🇳🌐 We measure India's foreign policy orientation in the post-Cold War era using a brand new dataset of its leaders' travel patterns from 1992-2019 ✈️

1/3

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

@rajesh_basrur @GaskarthJamie @clary_co @walterladwig @LeverhulmeTrust @KCL_CGS @KCLSecurity @warstudies Couldn’t have done it without your support!

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

⚔️Passed my #PhD viva last week.
Incredibly grateful to examiners @GaskarthJamie & @clary_co for their valuable interventions, my supervisor @walterladwig for his guidance and support of @LeverhulmeTrust @KCL_CGS in my quest to explain the fall of Indian military interventionism.

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

@manjeetsp @GaskarthJamie @clary_co @walterladwig @LeverhulmeTrust @KCL_CGS @KCLSecurity @warstudies Thank you!

[E P Unny @unnycartoonist]

'MT' is no more.
M.T. Vasudevan Nair remained a literary star through half a Century in the fault-finding Malayali society.

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

3/3
This is the culmination of a 4-year qual-quant collab that began during the pandemic and continued through the PhD. So pretty stoked to see it live!

Link👉 https://t.co/xMV8fM1BNR
Open access - pls download away / add to syllabi!
Some interesting viz. and tables in here too.

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

🧵🚨Thrilled to end 2024 with this @ISQ_Jrnl piece with @walterladwig! 👉 https://t.co/xMV8fM1BNR

🇮🇳🌐 We measure India's foreign policy orientation in the post-Cold War era using a brand new dataset of its leaders' travel patterns from 1992-2019 ✈️

1/3

[Walter C. Ladwig III @walterladwig]

🚨 Big news! 🚨

@sumithakutty and I are excited to share our forthcoming article (open-access!) in @ISQ_Jrnl:

"Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s🇮🇳 Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel."🌏✈️

A🧵on what this is about 1/16

https://t.co/xPP2Fi2kY8

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

2/3
✈️ Strategic interests, not #GlobalSouth ideals or domestic politics, drive engagement. There is certainly a method to the madness.

✈️ 🇮🇳's orientation towards the LIO is not fully conformist or revisionist.. BUT we do find more hints of the latter👇
https://t.co/GDIBu1D2gX

[Walter C. Ladwig III @walterladwig]

🇮🇳 not fully challenger❌OR status quo ✅ but shows more elements of former:

❌Preference for engaging rising powers
❌ Visits to Russian arms clients
✅ Avoiding US foes, engaging China's rivals
➖ VIPs avoid UN-sanctioned countries, but EAMs favor autocratic states (mixed)

[Sumitha Narayanan Kutty @sumithakutty]

@rumel_dahiya @GaskarthJamie @clary_co @walterladwig @LeverhulmeTrust @KCL_CGS @KCLSecurity @warstudies Thanks so very much!! 🙏🏽