Yanitha Meena is an analyst with the Institute of Strategic & International Studies, Malaysia. Meena’s research focuses on Indian foreign policy, the geopolitics of South Asia and Malaysia and ASEAN's relations with the region. She also looks at the various Indo-Pacific strategies in the region, focusing on the approaches of ASEAN, the European Union, Australia and the Republic of Korea.
Meena completed an MA in European Regional Integration at Universiti Malaya and a BSc in Psychology at the University of Madras. She is at the tail end of her PhD at UM where she pursued seminal work on the Tirukkural's contribution to non-Western international relations.
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