About Gurudas Das

GURUDAS DAS is a Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam. Earlier he had been associated with the Centre for Himalayan Studies, NBU, Siliguri; St Anthony’s College, Shillong; OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati and North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He specializes in the domain of security and development, cross-border trade and development cooperation, and geoeconomics and geopolitics of regional growth and development. He has authored Security and Development in India’s North East (2012: OUP), and co-authored and co-edited BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geoeconomics and Geo-politics (Routledge, 2018), Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast (2015: Routledge), Voices from the Border: Response to Chinese Claim over Arunachal Pradesh (2015: Pentagon Press), India-China: Trade and Strategy for Frontier Development (2010: Bookwell), Indo-Bangladesh Border Trade: Benefiting from Neighbourhood (2008: Akansha), Indo-Myanmar Border Trade: Status, Problems and Potentials (2005:Akansha), and Border Trade: North East and Neighbouring Countries (2000: Akansha). He has also authored and co-authored research articles published in Strategic Analysis, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, South Asian Survey, International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, Review of Market Integration, International Journal on World peace and International Journal of Public Administration.