K S PavithranDr. Pavithran K. S, former Professor, and Head, Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences & Director, K.M. Centre for West Asian Studies and Indian Ocean Studies, University of Calicut, is the Editor of ISDA Journal: Studies in Develpment and Public Policy, Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Political Science and Editorial Advisory Board Member of a number of reputed journals including South Asian Journal of Socio- Political Studies. He has been a Member of the Governing Council of the Kerala State Higher Education Council during (2008- 2012). He is the author of Non-Aligned Movement: Unipolar World and Beyond (2007), Foreign Policy and Maritime Security of India, ed. (2013), and Human Rights in India: Discourses and Contestations, ed. (2018). He is currently working on a new book, Indian Communism: Ideological Evolution, Globalisation and Crisis in Praxis. Read More Read Less