Dr Siddharth Tripathi

•  Politics of Knowledge Production in IR and Peace and Conflict Studies
• Conflict Transformation and Peace Building
• EU Civilian Crisis Management Missions
• Legitimacy of Political Order in (Post) Conflict Societies
• Critical Pedagogy
• Participatory Action Research
• India's Foreign Policy

• Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt (MA Level)
• Aung San Suu Kyi Centre for Peace, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi (BA/MA Level)
• Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi (BA Level)
• Insitute of Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul
• Department of Political Science, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi (BA Level)

Dr Siddharth Tripathi joined the research group 'Global cooperation and diverse conceptions of world order' in January 2022 and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre until the end of June 2022.

Revisiting the Analytic Gaze: From Knowledge of Politics to Politics of Knowledge in the Global South

The changing constellation of international politics and the rise of ‘emerging powers’ and new actors especially in the Global South are a characteristic feature of today’s world order. These actors have challenged the cosmology of dominant Northern/Western discourses on setting the agenda in international politics by creating alternatives like Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), BRICS and G77 as a group of developing countries within the United Nations. The critique of the dominant discourses has resulted in alternative conceptions of world order focusing on South-South Cooperation, Pan-Asianism and Pan-Africanism and the Global South has received increasing attention in the discipline of International Relations (IR), leading to a ‘South Turn in IR’. The discipline underwent professionalization, institutionalization and diversification in the last decades, resulting in a widening of theoretical and methodological approaches, including feminist approaches, critical approaches, decolonial/postcolonial approaches to mention a few. However, a change in the research focus did not come along with a systematic change in research approaches since the epistemological and ontological hold of the colonial knowledge system continues to exacerbate the epistemic and the structural hierarchies which are a characteristic feature of North-South dichotomy, also within the Global South. This necessitates the need for identifying patterns and assumptions of knowledge production in IR to explore the ordering practices and conceptions of world order within the Global South. It becomes especially relevant in the current context where there is a rise of populism and nationalist sentiments in states like India which championed the cause of ‘Third Worldism’ and ‘Non-Aligned Movement’.

In my interdisciplinary research project, I examine how the epistemic and structural hierarchies in mainstream IR manifest in knowledge production in IR in India. Additionally, I will explore the alternative/competing ideas between different epistemic communities in India to assess the underlying assumptions and world views and its possible implications for world order. Methodologically this would entail using mixed methods (incorporating content analysis, interviews, surveys and social network analysis) based on critical pedagogy.

• International Studies Association (ISA)
• British International Studies Association (BISA)
• European International Studies Association (EISA)
• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
• German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK)
• German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)

• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,Kabul, Afghanistan
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,Berlin, Germany
• State Planning Commission, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Swiss Refugee Council, Berne, Switzerland