R R Sharma

R R Sharma is the former Dean, School of International Studies and Professor of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He earlier served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu (196–2002). Professor Sharma has authored or edited a number of books including Marxist Model of Social Change: A Study of Soviet Central Asia (1979), The USSR in Transition: Issues and Themes (1985), Asian Dimension of Soviet Policy (edited, 1986), New Contours of Soviet Foreign Policy (editor, 1989), Economic Reforms, Liberalization and Structural Change—India and Hungary (edited, 1997) and Reform, Conflict and Change in the CIS and East Europe (edited, 1999). He is currently co-editing a volume on Globalisation and Transnational Conflicts, which will be published in early 2006 by Sage, London.