Dr Vineet Thakur is a Visiting Fellow at NIICE. He is University Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University. He will be the Smuts Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge from February 2020. A doctorate in international politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he has held teaching positions at Ambedkar University (Delhi) and SOAS (London) and research fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Amsterdam) and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (Johannesburg). He is the author of Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Discourses in India and South Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Jan Smuts and the Indian Question (University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2017). He has also co-authored two forthcoming books: South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations, (with Peter Vale for Rowman and Littlefield), and Race and International Relations at the Imperial Frontier (with Alexander Davis and Peter Vale for Pluto Press). Dr. Thakur’s most recent journal publications are in Journal of International Political Theory, The International History Review, Millennium, International Political Sociology, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, among others. Currently, he is writing a diplomatic biography of the Indian liberal leader, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri.