Sarkar Appointed Fellow at Dartmouth College for 2018-19
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a Fellow at Dartmouth College in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security for 2018-19.
Sarkar will be in residence in Hanover, NH during spring 2019, when she will use her time as a Dartmouth Fellow to complete her book manuscript on U.S. efforts to dissuade India’s nuclear weapons program since the Kennedy years until the first Reagan administration, and India’s quest for strategic autonomy through a diversified procurement strategy in the nuclear realm, particularly from France and the Soviet Union. Entitled Ploughshares to Swords: An International History of India’s Nuclear Program, the manuscript is undergoing final revisions before review.
Sarkar’s second book project on the Economics of American Nonproliferation Policy examines the role of businesses and government-industry relations in the United States and four major supplier states to demonstrate the economic logic behind nuclear assistance and how that contributes to nonproliferation.
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.