Career

Professor Anita Inder Singh (D.Phil., Oxon) is an international affairs analyst, who has published widely on democracy, human rights, diversity and integration in Europe and South Asia, the great powers in Asia, governance, international organisations, and development and security. She has been one of the founding Professors of the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the Jamia Millia Islamia

Jamia Millia Islamia

Jamia Millia Islamia is an Indian Central University located in Delhi. It was established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920. It became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988...

, a secular national Muslim university in New Delhi. Prior to that she was a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 and Political Science and has taught International Relations at Oxford University. She has also been a Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm, and worked for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues in Geneva.

Anita Inder Singh has written for the OSCE/Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODHIR) and UN/DESA.

Publications

Her books include Democracy, Ethnic Diversity and Security in Post-Communist Europe Based on extensive travelling in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and Eastern Europe the book showed that nationalism only leads to war if attempts are made to change state borders by force and that democracies are better at managing ethnic diversity than authoritarian states.

The Limits of British Influence: South Asia and the Anglo-American Relationship 1947-56. Based on official American archives in Washington DC, the papers of President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

 in Abilene, Kansas, President Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

in Independence, Missouri, and official British archives in London, this book shows how and why the US replaced Britain as the dominant foreign power in South Asia during the Cold War.

Her Oxford doctoral thesis, The Origins of the Partition of India, 1936-1947 (Oxford University Press, several editions in hardback and paperback since 1987, included in OUP's Partition Omnibus)

In an article in The Atlantic in 2003, Christopher Hitchens drew an analogy on the inevitability of partition between Anita Inder Singh’s book on Partition and Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet

An abridged 25,000 word version of her book, The Partition of India, was published in English by the National Book Trust of India in 2006 and has been translated into nine Indian languages, including Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Assamese, Gujarati, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi.

Anita Inder Singh has also published The United States, South Asia and the Global Anti-Terrorist Coalition. This book breaks new ground by exploring the significance of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in the American-led international coalition against terrorism. Will the anti-terrorist strategies of the US establish that it is the world’s principal spoiler or a superpower upholding international norms and strengthening the capacity of international society to quash terrorism?

Anita Inder Singh’s articles have been published in The Guardian, The World Today, International Affairs (both Chatham House, London), the Times Literary Supplement, the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Asian Wall Street Journal.

Personal

She has lived in Sweden , India , Switzerland , Britain , the US , and Russia - and can find her way around in Hindi, Swedish, French, Russian, German (reading only) - and English.