Dr. Naseema Akhter teaches at Post-Graduate Department of Political Science, University of Kashmir. She has been teaching in the Department for more than three decades and her teaching areas include the Government and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir and Social Movements in India. She has presented research papers in a number of National and International seminars and the present book sums up her vast experience of teaching this subject in its new manifestations, the Coalitions. She is also the author of West Asian Politics (2 volumes) 2004.