Dr Sonali Gokhale is an international relations scholar specialising in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and space security. She received her PhD from the University of Delhi, focusing on South Korea’s strategic positioning in the Indo-Pacific amid U.S.–China competition. A Korea Foundation Research Fellow and former Assistant Professor at Suwon University, South Korea, she works on U.S.–India–Korea strategic relations and emerging security domains. She previously interned at the U.S. House of Representatives and is regularly invited as a space security expert to Track 1.5 and trilateral policy dialogues, including engagements with UNIDIR, Raisina Dialogue–related discussions, and policy consultations at the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSDR).  

PUBLICATIONS

  • Gokhale, S. (2022). “Korean Peninsula and the Impact of Modern Technology: Economic and Defense Policies.” Third Concept – An International Journal of Ideas, 36(421), 94. ISSN 0970-7247. (UGC Care Listed). Published in the Special Issue on India–South Korea Relations, featuring selected papers from the 15th RASK International Webinar.

  • Gokhale, S., & Srivastava, S. (2020). “Inter-Korea Economic Relations.” Research Highlights, 9(4), 58–70. ISSN 2350-0611. (UGC Peer-Reviewed Journal, Impact Factor 3.23). Published by Future Fact Society, Varanasi, Oct–Dec 2022.

  • Gokhale, S. (2020). “Space Industrialization and Militarization of Japan.” International Journal of Indian and East Asian Studies (IJIEAS), June 2022, 1–7. ISSN 2456-9089.

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