Miller Speaks at Houston India Conference
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke on a panel at the inaugural “Houston India Conference: Make in India The Inside Story” on March 24, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
The conference was hosted by the Consulate General of India in Houston, Asia Society Texas Center, India House Houston, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce Greater Houston and the Greater Houston Partnership. The conference was held to facilitate a dialogue between panelists, business people and investors.
Miller spoke as part of a panel at the conference entitled “Soft Power of India,” along with Dhruva Jaishankar, Fellow for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution India Center in New Dehli.
Miller also attended the gala dinner at the conference, which honored Ian Grillot, who saved save the life of an Indian man in a recent Kansas shooting. Grillot was presented with a check raised by the Houston Indian American community.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller works on foreign policy and security issues in international relations with a focus on South and East Asia. She specializes in the foreign policy of rising powers India and China. Her book, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China, argues that the bitter history of colonialism affects the foreign policy behavior of India and China even today. She is interested in ideational influences on foreign policy and conceptions of state security. She is currently working on rising powers and the domestic ideational frameworks that explain their changing status.