Dr Bhagya Senaratne

Dr Bhagya Senaratne is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Global Asia at the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer (U.S. Associate Professor) in the Department of Strategic Studies, at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. Her research at the Center for Global Asia focuses on the BRI in South Asia. Her research and teaching intersects Foreign Policy Analysis, Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Communications and Maritime Security. Dr Senaratne has served in several editorial boards such as the Journal of Defence & Policy Analysis and the Defence and Security Journal published of which she was the Editor-in-Chief in 2021. She co-edited Pakistan-Sri Lanka Relations: A Story of Friendship in 2017 and Sri Lanka’s Post-Independence Defence Policy: Past, Present and Future Projections in 2023. She has podcasts with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), USA and the Indo-Pacific Circle (IPC), New Delhi and writes to the Stimson Center’s South Asian Voices on Sri Lanka’s foreign policy.