Amit is senior researcher at the University of the Federal Army Munich, Germany, formerly affiliated with the Germany Institute of the University of Amsterdam, the Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin and Jacobs University Bremen. After monographs about West Germany’s South Asia Policy between 1949 and 1966 and a political biography of Indian Foreign Secretary Subimal Dutt he is in publishing a book on the impact of officers of the Indian Civil Service on Indian foreign policy. He is currently investigating donor strategies in the development consortia for India, Pakistan and Turkey.