Dr. Nanda Kishor M S is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India. He is formerly Associate Professor and Head of Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. He holds an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Hyderabad Central University (HCU), Hyderabad, India and completed Postdoc at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, with an ERASMUS MUNDUS Fellowship from the European Union. Twitter @srijankishor

Poornima B is a PhD research scholar & TMA Pai Fellow at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Her research interests include the Geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa, International Negotiations, Conflict & Peace Studies. Her doctoral research is on the protracted social conflict in Yemen. Twitter @aminroopb