Basil Bastaki
Graduate School Student
Bio:
Broadly speaking, Basil is interested in how organizations impact state formation (i.e. political parties, traditional institutions, armed groups, businesses). His regional focus is Bengal and Northeast India. His approach is post-positivist, broadly realist, and methodologically plural; he is sensitive to case context but oriented to generalization.
For his dissertation, Basil will research the origins of political parties and party systems in the colonial province of Assam.
Contact:
- basil.bastaki@yale.edu
- 115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall, New Haven, CT 06520
Education:
- Language Certificates, The American Institute of Indian Studies (Kolkata) and Gauhati University, 2021-2024
- M.A. in International Relations, The University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations, 2020
- B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, 2015
Articles:
- (Under Review - with Paul Staniland and Bryan Popoola) Finessing the Hobbesian Dilemma: Ending and Stabilizing Internal Conflicts in South Asia
Fields of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Formal Theory
- Qualitative Methods
Languages:
- Assamese (Novice)
- Bengali (Intermediate/Advanced)
- Arabic (Professional)