Kate Sullivan de Estrada

🥁New article! Notice how 🇮🇳 rarely explicitly criticizes or even names 🇨🇳 in diplomatic speech? Well @RaphaellesK & I have a theory for that. Our new @BritJPIR article draws on language pragmatics to argue that 🇮🇳 often signals via a mode of indirect speech called "implicature"

Hindutva and Modi's India: The Makings of a Superpower? - join us for this online panel discussion with Dr Sripad Motiram, @Kate_SdE and Javed Gaya, moderated by @nehadixit123 on 21 January 2026 at 14.00 GMT. Find out more and register using the link in the comments.

Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.

DPIR's @Kate_SdE explores in @ConversationUK how Western Indian Ocean countries collaborate to avoid climate disaster over a simulated oil spill in the Indian Ocean: ow.ly/3lgR50Wt8Ok

A postcard from Mombasa and a first glimpse into my emerging research on maritime security cooperation in the Western Indian Ocean theconversation.com/i-watched-a-si…

India’s regional security post-Pahalgam at #IdeasForIndia 📢Rahul Roy-Chaudhury (Snr Fellow, South & Central Asian Defence @IISS_org) 📢@Kate_SdE (Ass Prof, International Relations of South Asia @CSASP @OSGAOxford @Politics_Oxford @StAntsCollege) 📺Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=EHwgIB…

We set out to explore India’s role in a shifting global order — but even before the #IranIsraelConflict erupted, the tremors were already there. Ep37 of India: A Story In the Making, recorded before the #Iran conflict during the @BridgeIndiaOrg - Ideas for India 2025 week, uncannily sensed what was coming. Now, as tensions appear to ease, the conversation around a fractured #multipolarworld has only become more urgent. 🎙️ We ask Giles Trendle –Co-founder, The Green House Duo ; former MD, @AJEnglish & @Kate_SdE • Can India lead without aligning? • Is the global order collapsing? • Why is India still not on the UN Security Council? Featuring: ➡️ Full episode LIVE on the 27th of June on: @loveenatandonproductions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@loveenatandon… & for Audio - PODCAST SMART LINK link.chtbl.com/IndiaaStoryint...

New piece in The Conversation, by me and Kate Sullivan de Estrada, unpacks the reasons and implications for India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty theconversation.com/india-and-paki… (1/4)

My piece on multilateralism argues that the overlapping leaderships of Modi & Trump 1.0 diverged on the issue of multilateralism, producing a dynamic of US retreat & redoubled Indian efforts at reform, despite their common recourse to populism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Worth checking out is the @IndiaReview1 2023 special issue "India-US Convergence and Divergence under the Trump Administration", which is about to be re-published as an edited volume by Routledge routledge.com/India-US-Conve…

The term card for the Modern South Asian Studies seminar series at Oxford is now out. Open to all!

Fascinating sessions so far at this week's @commission_coi-led workshop on marine pollution incident prevention, preparedness, response & cooperation in the Western Indian Ocean. What kind of a regional cooperation mechanism will emerge?

📝 ICYMI: New BJPIR article by @RaphaellesK & @Kate_SdE available in #OpenAccess 'Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific' Available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… @PolStudiesAssoc

@RaphaellesK I think it definitely means we are trendy.

Not totally sure what 'trending in IR' means, but apparently that is what our article is doing @Kate_SdE !

#IndoPacific : très heureuse pour les Seychelles, 🇸🇨pays fortement engagé depuis des années dans la sécurité maritime regionale, la defense de l’économie Bleue🐳🐠la lutte contre la piraterie et la criminalité maritime @c_bueger @Kate_SdE @timwalker919 @cgima_wio @msjlarsen