Berenice Guyot-Richard is a Professor of contemporary international relations at King’s College London, after a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a visiting fellowship at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Her work focuses on the impact of decolonization in South Asia as we know it today, particularly in terms of international politics. She is the author of Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).