Dr. Sumantra Maitra is a national-security fellow at the Center for the National Interest, a visiting senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and an elected associate fellow at the Royal Historical Society.
He is also a senior contributor at The Federalist, and a senior columnist at The National Interest, and a regular contributor at Critic Magazine, UK, and Law and Liberty, US.
He is currently in the process of writing a book on Neorealism and American grand-strategy in Europe. His academic essays and peer-reviewed articles have been published in Canadian Military Journal, Centre for Land Warfare Studies Journal, Political Studies Review, International Affairs, and the International Journal.
Maitra holds an MA with distinction grade from SMU, India; as well as a Master of International Studies from the University of Otago, New Zealand, with distinctions in International Politics, and Global Trade, where he was awarded a Coursework Masters scholarship. He completed his PhD in International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK, with a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship in Research Excellence.