Research
Academic Projects (ongoing)
A Formal Model of Salami Slicing in Territorial Disputes
February 2023 - onwards
When are salami slicing operations preferable for aggressor to grab disputed territories? When do security-seeking states seek military action in response to a salami slicing operation? What force development should security-seeking states undergo to deter an expansionist power from conducting salami slicing operations? I am interested in answering these questions using formal models.
Strategic Leverages in Global Chip Supply Chains
October 2022 - onwards (multiple collaborations)
What explains the attempts by the leading chipmaking states towards vertical integration of the supply chain despite the ultra-globalized nature of the chip industry? How is the global supply chain affecting their strategic interests? What strategies can state deploy to optimize their position in global chip supply chain? I am using network analysis to seek answers to these questions.
Updates:
Sahu, A. and S. Dwivedi (work in progress), "Semiconductor Unchained: A Network Analysis Approach to Strategic Leverages", presented at 80th MPSA Annual Conference, April 13-16, 2023.
Summer Research Assistant to Dr. Sarah Bauerle Danzman at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. (May - August, 2023)
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Past Projects
On Military Technology Races: Insights from Richardson's Model of Arms Races
January - April 2020
This was my Thesis for MA in International Relations for South Asian University. In this project, I applied the Lewis Fry Richardson's action-reaction framework of arms race on military technological competition by approaching it as a special form of qualitative arms race. I tested three hypothesis - two on superpower dyads and one for regional dyads - on two cases: US-USSR Space Race, and missile race between India and Pakistan. You can read the full text here.
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