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Faculty Roundtable
Co-sponsored by the UHM Office of Global Engagement, Department of Asian Studies & Center for South Asian Studies, and HPU’s Departments of History and International Studies
Recent clashes along the India-China border prompted concern for many regional security analysts. The 2020 skirmish, which left dozens of Indian and Chinese soldiers dead, was the first deadly clash between the two countries since 1975. As both India and China compete for regional (and global) influence in the 21st century, the likelihood for confrontation will only increase. This panel will examine India and China’s policies toward one another and the sources of potential instability and conflict.
Andrea Malji is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, International Studies, and Diplomacy and Military studies at Hawai‘i Pacific University. Her research interests are broadly South Asia, political violence, nationalism, gender, and religion. She has published articles in the journals of Terrorism and Political Violence, Progress in Development Studies, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Political Science Education, and has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press. In 2021 she was selected as a Fulbright scholar to conduct research in India, and was named HPU’s teacher of the year.
Yong Jae Kim is assistant professor of political science and international studies at Hawai‘i Pacific University. His research and teaching interests are East Asian politics, national security, and research methods. He has published articles in the Asian Survey and the Government & Opposition. His recent paper entitled, “How Does the Chinese Communist Party Predominate Emerging Pluralist Society?: Issue Politics of the Chinese Communist Party” was presented in the 2021 American Political Science Association Conference.
Anna Stirr is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. She is the author of Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2017), which won the 2019 Bernard S. Cohn Prize for first books on South Asia from the Association for Asian Studies. The documentary film she co-directed with Bhakta Syangtan, Singing A Great Dream, has won multiple awards for its portrayal of a leading singer-songwriter of Nepal’s militant Left. Her research and teaching interests include expressive culture, politics, and religion in South Asia and especially in the Himalayan region.