Dr Jasmine Bhatia
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr. Jasmine Bhatia is a Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Msc in War and Humanitarianism Programme at Birkbeck, University of London.
Dr. Bhatia is a political scientist with expertise in civil wars, governance, illicit economies, and violent extremism in fragile states. Prior to joining Birkbeck, she spent two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a project examining the relationship between conflict, illicit drugs and development in Colombia, Myanmar and Afghanistan.
Dr. Bhatia also has over a decade of professional experience in conflict-affected states and has worked as a consultant for the United Nations, the European Institute of Peace, the World Economic Forum, and on various EU and UK-funded development projects, primarily in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
She holds a Doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford, as well as degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Calgary.
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Civil Wars
- Illicit Economies
- Peacebuilding
- Governance
- Violent Extremism
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Fields of War and Humanitarianism (SSPO141S7)
- War and Modern Society I (SSPO174H6)
- War and Modern Society II (SSPO175H6)
- War, Politics and Society I (SSPO252H7)
- War, Politics and Society II (SSPO253H7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Koehler, J. and Bhatia, Jasmine and Moosakhel, G.R. (2022) Modes of governance and the everyday lives of illicit drug producers in Afghanistan. Third World Quarterly 43 (11), pp. 2597-2617. ISSN 0143-6597.
- Bhatia, Jasmine (2021) Unsettling the peace? The role of illicit economies in peace processes. International Journal of Drug Policy 89 (103046), ISSN 0955-3959.
- Goodhand, J. and Meehan, P. and Bhatia, Jasmine and Ghiabi, M. and Gutierrez-Sanin, F. (2021) Critical policy frontiers: the drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma. International Journal of Drug Policy 89 (103115), ISSN 0955-3959.
- Bhatia, Jasmine and Jareer, N. and McIntosh, R. (2018) Community-driven development in Afghanistan: a case study of the National Solidarity Programme in Wardak. Asian Survey 58 (6), pp. 1042-1065. ISSN 0004-4687.
Book Section
- Goodhand, J. and Koehler, J. and Bhatia, Jasmine (2022) Trading spaces: Afghan borderland brokers and the transformation of the margins. In: Gallien, M. and Weigand, F. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 118-133. ISBN 9780367489533.
Editorial
- Bhatia, Jasmine and Ghiabi, M. and Goodhand, J. and Gutierrez-Sanin, F. and Meehan, P. (2021) Drugs, conflict and development. International Journal of Drug Policy 89 (103212), Elsevier. ISSN 0955-3959.