Dr. Sandra Destradi is a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg. She is the author of Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia: Regional Power Strategies (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2012). Her current research interests include the role of rising powers in international politics, regional security governance, and conflict management in intra-state wars. Email: sandra.destradi@giga-hamburg.de