Sarkar Presents at APHI, Center for the Study of Europe, BUCSA
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, presented papers at the American Political History Institute (APHI) at Boston University’s Department of History on January 31, 2018, the Center for the Study of Europe on March 1, 2018 and the Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) on March 14, 2018.
At the American Political History Institute, Sarkar workshopped her paper, “Whack-a-Mole: American Policy to Curb West European Nuclear Exports, 1974-1978,” that has recently been accepted for publication at the Journal of Cold War Studies. The paper is based on her second book project on US nonproliferation policy toward nuclear supplier states during 1974-1992.
At the BU Center for the Study of Europe, Sarkar presented the broader implications of her second book project, especially, the nature of government-industry relations within supplier states that their impact on the effectiveness of export controls, and by consequence, on the successes and failures of U.S. supply-side nonproliferation policy.
At the BU Center for the Study of Asia, Sarkar presented a chapter from her first book manuscript on the history of India’s nuclear program and U.S. nonproliferation efforts in the context of Sino-Indian tensions during the Kennedy-Johnson years.
Jayita Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Her expertise is in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, the global Cold War, South Asia and Western Europe. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, and elsewhere. Dr. Sarkar has held fellowships at MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Yale universities, and obtained a doctorate in International History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland.