Josukutty C A is Professor and Director in the School of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science at the University of Kerala, India. He was Fellow of the United States Institute on US Foreign Policy at the University of Florida in 2010 and awarded the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship in 2015. In 2019, he was selected for the “Academic Excellence Award” by the University of Kerala. His areas of interest and research include International Relations, India’s foreign policy, and electoral politics. He has published five books and many research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals, which include Maritime Affairs, Glocalism: Journal of Culture Politics and Innovation, Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Gandhi Marg, and International Journal of South Asian Studies. Joyce Sabina Lobo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St. Aloysius (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru, India. She has formerly worked with Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (formerly called Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, IDSA), New Delhi, with the Eurasian Centre. She has completed her MA (Political Science) from the Centre for Political Studies; and MPhil and PhD (International Relations) from the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi. Currently her research interests are Russian cum Myanmar politics and foreign policy in which she has published, and at her hometown her research interests include study on the Beary Muslims in Dakshina Kannada.