Contemporary Geopolitical Alignment in the Global South: Security, Peace and Sustainable Development (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031819766)

Mukunda Mishra is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and designated Vice Principal of Dr. Meghnad Saha College, affiliated to the University of Gour Banga in West Bengal, India. Dr. Mishra completed his postgraduate studies in geography and environmental management at Vidyasagar University and holds a Ph.D. in geography from the same university. He was selected for the National Merit Scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. His research chiefly focuses on analyzing unequal human development and creating multi-criteria predictive models. He has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in dealing with development issues at the ground level in various districts of eastern India. Dr. Mishra has in his credit to publish one monograph and eight edited research volumes so far from the house of Springer-Nature and he has more than thirty research articles and book chapters published in the journals and books of international repute. His present focus of research and writings is different critical policy aspects, particularly peace and sustainable development, in the global south. Andrews José de Lucena is an Associate Professor, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has completed his Master in Geography from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Postgraduate Institute and Engineering Research (COPPE/UFRJ). His research interest is chiefly concerned with the urban climate and its research methods, climate change, and environment. He participated and integrated research projects with several professionals and institutions in the areas of Climatology and Urban Meteorology, Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling, Remote Sensing in Urban Areas and Urban Development in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. He coordinates the Integrated Laboratory of Applied Physical Geography (LIGA/UFRRJ) and integrates the Environmental Satellite Applications Laboratory of the Meteorology Department (LASA/UFRJ). He manages the website climatologia with information about land surface temperature (LST) of the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro from 1984 to the present. Suresh Kumar is Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Delhi. He shouldered the responsibilities as Head of Department and Coordinator of Centre for African Studies, University Grants Commission (UGC) Area Study Program for 2015-19 & 2009-2012. He is Chief Editor of Africaindia.org. Professor Kumar is a passionate traveler who has visited forty countries for research and teaching assignments. He is Chief Collaborator of the UGC Major Research Project on Geopolitics Federalism: A Vision of North and South Sudan, 2011, University research projects on Geological Evidences and Social Connectivity of India and Africa, 2015, Geopolitics and the Issue of Western Sahara, 2013, Geopolitics and the Issue of Darfur in Sudan, 2012, Political Economy and Social Issues in Eritrea, 2009 and Democracy and social Issues in South Africa and India, 2003. Recently, he finished International Research Project on Religion, Yoga, and Education in India and South Africa sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research-South Africa National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019 and completed HashimMbita Research Project on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia (NAM) and Liberation Struggle of Southern Africa sponsored by Southern African Development Community (SADC), Tanzania, 2010. He is currently engaged with UNESCO Research Group on African and Brazilian knowledge, practices, education and histories in a Southern Perspective, Porto University, Brazil, 2012-Continue. He articulated his opinion on different aspects of Africa before the United Nations Organization (UNO, 2012), International Geographical Congress (IGC, IGU 2004 & 2008), Ronald H. Brown Institute (2008), World Policy Council (WPC 2014), European Commission of African Studies (ECAS), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA 2015), IBSA, BRICS-IKS (2016, 2018 and 2019), and many others. Professor Kumar has authored eight books, 13 chapters in different books and about 165 articles have been published in different books, journals and newspapers. He completed his LLB successfully out of his sheer interest from the University of Delhi, India in 2016. Siddhartha Sankar Manna is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gour Banga. He was awarded with a Ph.D. from the Vidyasagar University. The focal theme of his research is the analysis of international relations, political theory, democratic politics, and human development. He published more than twenty papers in reputed national and international journals.