Bejoy Sebastian

Bejoy Sebastian is a doctoral candidate in international relations at the Central University of Kerala, India. His area of research includes contemporary geopolitics and regionalism in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region in light of IR theory. His articles and commentaries have appeared in Delhi Post (India), The Kochi Post (India), The Diplomat (United States), and The Financial Express (India), and some of them were re-published by The Asian Age (Bangladesh), The Cambodia Daily, the BRICS Information Portal, and the Peace Economy Project (United States). He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, where he acquired a post-graduate diploma in English journalism. He has qualified the Indian University Grants Commission's National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for teaching IR in Indian higher educational institutions in 2022. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations with First Rank from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India. He was attached to the headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs (Government of India) in New Delhi, as a research intern in 2021, and has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at FLAME University in Pune, India, for a brief period of time.