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Meena Singh Roy is a Research Fellow and heads the West Asia Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). She holds Ph. D., form Delhi University and her areas of specialization are Central Asia and West Asia. Before joining IDSA, she was a senior research scholar in the Department of African Studies, Delhi University. She was associated with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies and London School of Economics for her research work. In 2014, she was a visiting Research Fellow with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. Her publications include The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: India Seeking New Role in the Eurasian Regional Mechanism (2014). She has edited Changing Security Paradigm in West Asia: Regional and International Responses (2020, KW Publishers); Ideology, Politics and New Security Challenges in West Asia (Pentagon Press, 2018); International and Regional Security Dynamics: Indian and Iranian Perspectives (IDSA, 2009) and Emerging Trends in West Asia: Regional and Global Implications (Pentagon Press, 2014).