Monika Barthwal-Datta is Senior Lecturer in International Security, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. She received her PhD in International Relations from Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London. Monika’s research areas include critical security studies, decolonial feminist approaches, strategic narratives, and foreign policy. Empirically, her research focus includes non-traditional security issues, particularly food security and climate change, non-state actors, regional security in South Asia, and Indian foreign policy.