Introduction

Dr Christian Wagner is Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. He was head of the Research Division Asia at SWP, from 2007 to 2014. Prior to joining SWP in 2003, he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Development Research at the University of Bonn (2001-2002), and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Administrative Studies at Rostock University (1996-2001).

Dr Wagner is also a member of the European Association for South Asian Studies. He was a member of the board of directors of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA), from 2007 to 2013. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Studies (JNIAS) and at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi in 2015/16.

Dr Wagner obtained his M.A. and Ph.D from Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.

Areas of Interest and Expertise

• Indian Foreign Policy
• Regional Cooperation in South Asia
• Democracy in South Asia