Manjari Miller

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Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Notable work
  • Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020)
  • Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013)
  • Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021)

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is an Associate Professor of international relations at Boston University who specializes in narratives in rising powers, particularly China and India. [1] She is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. [2]

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Early life and education

Miller received a BA from the University of Delhi in India and an MA from the University of London in the United Kingdom. [3]

Miller received her PhD from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. [1]

Notable work

In 2013, Miller published Wronged by Empire on the response to colonization in India and China. [4]

In 2021, Miller published Why Nations Rise, which draws on the historical cases of the United States, Meiji Japan, the Netherlands, and Cold War Japan. Miller focuses on the role of narratives in rising powers in the context of contemporary China and India. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Manjari Miller: The Complexities of the China-India Relationship • The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute". The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Harvard University. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. "CFR to Welcome New Fellows on China, India, and Defense Policy". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  3. "Manjari Chatterjee Miller". Boston University. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  4. "Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China | Manjari Chatterjee Miller". Stanford University Press.
  5. "New Book by CWP Alum Manjari Chatterjee Miller | Columbia-Harvard China and the World program". cwp.sipa.columbia.edu. Retrieved 23 February 2021.