Curriculum Vitae of Sumit Ganguly
Home Address:
2901 Robin’s Bow
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 340-3148
Work Address:
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
210 Woodburn Hall
1100 E. 7th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-1363 (Phone)
812-855-2027 (Fax)
E-mail:
sganguly@indiana.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics),
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 1984
M.A., Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1978
B.A., English and Political Science, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, 1977
Professional Experience:
2003–present
Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and Professor of
Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
2013–present
Director, Center on American and Global Security, Indiana University, Bloomington
Spring 2014
Visiting Buffett Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2011–present
Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental and Public Affairs, Indiana University
Bloomington
Summer 2011
Visiting Fellow, German Institute of International and Area Studies, Hamburg
Fall 2010
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi
Spring 2010
Ngee Ann Professor of International Relations, Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Summer 2009
Visiting Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California
2007–2011
Director of Research, Center on American and Global Security, Indiana University,
Bloomington
May–June 2007
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Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France
May 2006
Asia Chair (Research), Sciences Po, Paris, France
2003–2011
Director, Dhar India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2000–2003
Professor, Departments of Asian Studies and Government, University of Texas,
Austin
Summer 2000
Visiting Fellow, Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1999–2000
Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford
University
Spring 1999
Visiting Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Summer 1997
Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
1992–2000
Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, and Department of
Political Science, the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New
York
1992–1999
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
1993–1994
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
1992–1993
Director, Aaron Diamond Social Science Fellowship Program, City University of
New York
1989–1992
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, and
Department of Political Science, the Graduate School and University Center, City
University of New York
1989–1992
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Summer 1991
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New York University
1990–1992,
1986–1987
Academic Director, Summer Seminar, Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury,
Connecticut
1986–1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, City University
of New York
1987–1989
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
1987–1989
Director, International Fellows Program, School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University
1985–1986
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Assistant Professor, International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State
University, East Lansing
Summer 1985
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
1984–1985
Ford Foundation Dual Competence Fellow, Columbia University
Spring 1984
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Governors State University, Park
Forest South, Illinois
Fall 1983
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois,
Urbana/Champaign
Teaching Experience and Specializations:
International Relations and World Politics
Comparative Politics (South Asia, Southeast Asia)
Ethnopolitics
Regional Security (South Asia)
Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control
Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism
Grants and Honors:
J. David Singer Award (with Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson), Midwest Section,
International Studies Association, for How Rivalries End, November 2015.
United States Department of State grant (with William R. Thompson) for developing a security
studies certificate for the University of Bombay, August 2015.
United States Department of State grant for “Promoting Pan Asian Connectivity”, March 2014.
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, June 2014
Carnegie Corporation of New York, grant for two conferences: on Afghanistan after the US Drawdown and on Nuclear Stability in South Asia, 2013
American Institute of Indian Studies, grant (with Benjamin Cohen) for a conference on regionalism
in India, 2012
Smith Richardson Foundation, grant (with William R. Thompson) for a book on institutional
efficacy in India, 2012
U.S. Army War College, grant for conference on Asian Rivalries, November 2009
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, Government of India, Chennai, India, January 2009
Asia Foundation, grant for conference on India’s foreign policy, October 2008
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U.S. Army War College, grant for conference on learning from India’s experiences in counterinsurgency, October 2007
U.S. Army War College, grant for conference on nuclear deterrence in South Asia, April 2007
National Defense University, grant for conference on learning from India’s experiences in counterinsurgency, October 2007
Medal of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Rimini, Italy, October 2006
Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi), two grants for conference on the state of India Studies
in the United States, fall 2004 and fall 2005
U.S. Army War College, grant for conference on U.S.-India security ties, April 2005
Asia Foundation, grant for conference on U.S.-India security ties, April 2005
Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory, grant for conference on U.S.-India
security ties, April 2005
Asia Foundation, grant for conference on Kashmir, February 2003
Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory, grant for conference on Kashmir,
February 2003
Asia Foundation, grant for conference on Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, fall 2000
Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory, grant for conference on Indian and
Pakistani nuclear tests, fall 2000
Carnegie Corporation of New York, research grant for work on the sources of conflict between India
and Pakistan, June 1999–August 2000
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, research fellowship, October
1999–June 2000
United States Institute of Peace, research grant for a comparative study of ethnic policies in Sri
Lanka and Malaysia, January 1998–August 1998
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, grant for field research in Sri Lanka and
Malaysia, January 1998
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, guest scholar research appointment for a
comparative study of ethnic policies in Sri Lanka and Malaysia, July–August 1997
Smithsonian Institution, American Institute for Indian Studies, short-term fellowship for the study of
the Eleventh General Election in India, May 1996
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, grant for field research on contemporary
insurgency in Kashmir, January 1995
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, fellowship to study the contemporary
insurgency in Kashmir, Washington, D.C., September 1993–July 1994
W. Alton Jones Foundation, grant for a study of Confidence-Building Measures in South Asia (with
Ted Greenwood, former Director, International Security Policy Program, Columbia
University), 1993–1995
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, research grant for a study of the origins,
evolution, and possible resolution of the Kashmir crisis, 1992
United States Institute of Peace, research grant for a study of the Sino-Indian border dispute, 1991–
1992 (deferred to 1992–1993 to coincide with sabbatical year)
Smithsonian Institution, American Institute for Indian Studies, short-term fellowship for the study of
the Tenth General Election in India, May–June 1991
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, research grant for a study of the SinoIndian border dispute, 1988–1989
Eugene Lang Fellowship, Hunter College, Spring 1989
Smithsonian Institution, American Institute for Indian Studies, short-term fellowship for the study of
the Ninth General Election in India, November–December 1989
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, research grant for a study of the SinoIndian border dispute, 1987–1988
Smithsonian Institution, American Institute for Indian Studies, short-term fellowship for a study of
the Sino-Indian border dispute, June–July 1988
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York, research grant for a study of the origins
of the Punjab crisis, summer 1987
Professional Activities:
Selected Consultancies:
Palgrave Macmillan, manuscript reviewer, December 2015.
Member, Screening Committee, Institute for International Education, Fulbright Fellowships (India),
November 2015.
Bloomsbury Press, manuscript reviewer, May 2015
Yale University Press, New Haven, manuscript reviewer, December 2013
US Department of State, Critical Language Scholarships selection panel, January 2011–12
Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, manuscript reviewer, May 2010
Routledge, manuscript reviewer 2009–present
Palgrave/Macmillan Press, manuscript reviewer 2009–present
Princeton University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2008
Cornell University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2008
Cambridge University Press (New Delhi), manuscript reviewer, 2008–present
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Oxford University Press (New Delhi and Oxford), manuscript reviewer, 2007–present
Cambridge University Press (U.K.), manuscript reviewer, 2004–present
Routledge Press, manuscript reviewer, 1999–present
Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, project on state-owned energy firms, 2005–7
World Book Publishing, manuscript acquisitions, 2003
Library of Congress, project on civil-military relations, 2002
National Endowment for Democracy, grant application reviewer, 2002–2003
Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, 1999–2000
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, fellowship selection panel, 2000
National Bureau of Asian Research, 2000
Grolier Publishing Company 1999–2003
The Economist 1999
National Geographic 1999
Lynne Rienner Publishers, manuscript reviewer, 1998–2003
Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, manuscript reviewer, 1996–2003
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, manuscript reviewer, 1996–present
U.S. Foreign Service Institute, 1993
U.S. Institute of Peace, grant evaluation panel, Nov. –Dec. 1991, June 1994, Feb. 2000
Westview Press, manuscript reviewer, 1990–2000
St. Martin's Press, manuscript reviewer, 1991–1993
Multinational Strategies, Inc., 1989–1991
Hudson Institute (on Soviet basing strategy in the Third World), spring 1987
Professional Service:
Member, Editorial Board, Foreign Policy Analysis, 2015--- present.
Member, Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2012–present
Member, Editorial Board, The Nonproliferation Review, 2012–present
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, 2011–present
Member, Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs, 2011–present
Member, Editorial Board, International Security, 2011–present
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Development and Conflict, 2010–present
Member, Editorial Board, Asian Security, 2009–present
Member, Editorial Board, New Millennium Books Series in International Relations, Rowman &
Littlefield, 2009–present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Democracy, 2007–present
Member, Editorial Board, Security Studies, 2006–2013.
President’s Advisory Board on International Programs, Indiana University, 2005–present
Routledge Press, co-editor of Asian Security book series, 2004–present
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Indo-US Relations, June-September 2015
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of South Asian Development, 2006–present
Member, Editorial Board, Current History, 1997–present
Member, Editorial Board, Asian Survey, 1997–2014.
Contributing Editor, Asian Affairs, 1996– 2013
Speaker, US Department of State Public Diplomacy Program, Sri Lanka, July 2012, September 2011
Board Member, South Asia Democracy Forum, Brussels, 2012 to present
Member, Geopolitical Risk Global Agenda Council, World Economic Forum, 2011–12
Associate Editor International Studies Quarterly, 2009-2013.
Visiting (Evaluation) Committee, South Asian Studies Program, National University of Singapore,
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2006
Member, Screening Committee, Institute for International Education, Fulbright Fellowships, (South
Asia), 2000–2003
Member, Selection Jury, Grawemeyer Award, 2001
Member, Committee on Promotion and Tenure, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin,
2000–2001
Founding Editor, India Review, 2000–2008
Founding Editor, Asian Security, 2003–2009
Member, Editorial Board, Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2006–12
Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2002–10
Member, Board of Directors, Institute of World Affairs, 1996–2000
Member of Editorial Board, Comparative Politics, 1987–98
Review Editor (Acting), Comparative Politics, 1996–97
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on terrorism, 1997–1998
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on future of U.S. national security, 1996–1997
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on South Asia, 1996
Chair, First Examination Committee, Department of Political Science, the Graduate School and
University Center, City University of New York, 1996–98
United States Information Service, speaker, Pakistan, January 1994, September 1997
United States Information Service, speaker, India, September 1993, March 1999
United States Information Service, speaker, Bangladesh, June 1996, January 1997, August 1997
Program Chair, annual political science conference, the Graduate School and University Center, City
University of New York, 1990
Professional Affiliations:
Council on Foreign Relations
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
Research/Publications:
Books:
Ascending India and Its State Capacity. Co-authored with William Thompson. Forthcoming Yale
University Press, September 2016.
Heading East: The Dynamics of Security, Trade and Environment between India and Southeast Asia
Co-edited with Karen Stoll Farrell. Forthcoming Oxford University Press, June 2015.
Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century. Forthcoming Cambridge
University Press, March 2016.
Engaging the World: India’s Foreign Policy Since 1947. Editor. Forthcoming Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, January 2016.
The Oxford Short Introduction to Indian Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
August 2015.
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The Police and Counterinsurgency. Co-editor with C. Christine Fair. Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, 2014.
How Rivalries End. Co-authored with Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson. University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation and Limits on Two-Level Games. Co-editor with William R.
Thompson. Stanford University Press, 2011.
—South Asian edition, Cambridge University Press, Spring 2013.
India since 1980. Co-author with Rahul Mukherji. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia. Co-author with S. Paul
Kapur. Columbia University Press, 2010.
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security. Co-editor with Andrew Scobell and Joseph Liow.
London: Routledge, 2009.
India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect. Editor. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009.
India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned. Co-editor with David Fidler. London: Routledge,
2009.
Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb. Co-editor with Paul Kapur.
London: Routledge, 2008.
Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces, Co-editor with
Christine Fair. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The State of India’s Democracy. Co-editor with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner. Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007.
US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More Than Words. Co-editor with Andrew
Scobell and Brian Shoup. London: Routledge, 2006.
South Asia: A Current History Reader. Editor. New York: New York University Press, 2006
Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons. Co-author with Devin
Hagerty. New Delhi: Oxford University Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005
India as an Emerging Power. Editor. London: Frank Cass, 2003
Understanding Contemporary India. Co-editor with Neil Devotta. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003
Fighting Words: Language Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia. Co-editor with Michael E. Brown.
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2003
Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. New Delhi: Oxford University Press; New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002
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Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific. Co-editor with Michael E.
Brown. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1997
The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997 (paperback edition 1999)
Mending Fences: Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in South Asia. Co-editor with Ted
Greenwood. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996
Brasstacks and Beyond: Crisis and Misperception in South Asia. Co-author with Kanti Bajpai, P. R.
Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, and Stephen P. Cohen. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995
The Origins of War in South Asia: The Indo-Pakistani Conflicts since 1947, 2nd ed. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1994 (first edition, 1986)
India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections.
Co-editor with Harold Gould. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993
The Hope and the Reality: U.S.-Indian Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan. Co-editor with Harold
Gould. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992
Monographs:
Hindu Nationalism and the Foreign Policy of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party, 2014-15 Paper Series,
Number 2 (Washington, DC: TransAtlantic Academy, 2015)
India’s Role in Afghanistan (Madrid: CIDOB, January 2012)
Structure and Agency in the Making of India’s Foreign Policy (Singapore: Institute of South Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore, October 2010)
Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia: History and Prospects (Seattle: National Bureau of
Asian Research, December 2009)
The ONGC: Charting a New Course? (Houston: The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy,
Rice University, 2007)
The Rise of Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh, Special Report 171 (Washington, DC: United States
Institute of Peace, 2006)
The Evolution of Sino-Indian Relations since 1962, Occasional Paper 60 (Washington, DC: Asia
Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1994)
Articles, Book Chapters, and Review Essays:
“The Indian and Pakistani Bombs,” with Rajesh M. Basrur, in Andreas Wenger and Roland Popp,
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eds. The Sources of Nuclear Behavior (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, forthcoming
2016)
“Terminating the Interminable” in Jeremy Suri, Benjamin Valentino and Stephen Van Evera, eds.
Sustainable U.S. National Security (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016)
“The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Elites: Variance, Structure and Common Denominators,”
with Tim Hellwig and William R. Thompson. Foreign Policy Analysis, forthcoming 2016.
“A Tale of Two Trajectories: Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan and India: A Review Essay,”
Journal of Strategic Studies, forthcoming 2016.
“India. Pakistan and the Unlikely Dream of a Nuclear-Free South Asia,” with S. Paul Kapur, in Nils
Hynek and Michal Smetana, eds. Global Nuclear Disarmament; Strategic, Political and Regional
Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2016)
“Five Dangerous Myths About Pakistan,” with C. Christine Fair, The Washington Quarterly,
forthcoming, January 2016.
“Foreign Policy Analysis in India,” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, in Klaus Brummer and Valerie Hudson,
eds. Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond North America (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2015)
“An Unworthy Ally,” with C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2015, 4:5, pp.160171.
“India’s Ballistic Missile Defense Program,” in “Strategic Stability in South Asia” special issue of
The Nonproliferation Review, September 2015, 21:3-4, pp. 255-260.
“An Introduction” with Feisal Istrabadi, in “Twilight in Afghanistan” special issue of Asian Survey,
March/April 2015, 55:2, pp.235-248.
“India’s National Security,” in David Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan, eds., The
Oxford Handbook of India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015.
“Pakistan’s Forgotten Genocide--- A Review Essay,” International Security, Fall 2014, 39:2,
pp.169-180.
“India’s Foreign and Security Policies,” in Rosemary Foot, Saadia Pekaanen, and John Ravenhill,
eds., The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia, New York: Oxford University
Press, 2014.
“India’s Watershed Vote: The Risks Ahead,” Journal of Democracy, October 2014, 25:4, pp. 57-61.
“The Path of Least Resistance,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2014
“India and the Liberal Order,” in Trine Flockhart et al., eds., Liberal Order in a Post Western World,
Washington, DC: Transatlantic Academy, 2014.
“Militant Islam in South Asia: Past Trajectories and Present Implications,” with Ryan Brasher, in
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Joachim Krause and Charles King Mallory IV, eds., Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Strategic Choice:
Adjusting Western Regional Policy, London: Routledge, 2014.
“The Pathological Alliance,” review essay based on Husain Haqqani, Magnificent Delusions:
Pakistan, the United States, and the Epic History of Misunderstanding, in Current History 113
(April 2014) 165–66.
“Separated at Birth?” review essay based on Maya Tudor, The Promise of Power: The Origins of
Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan, in Journal of Democracy 24: 4 (October 2013):
168–171.
“Diverging Nuclear Pathways in South Asia,” review essay based on Feroz Hasan Khan, Eating
Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb, and Verghese Koithara, Managing India’s Nuclear
Forces, in The Nonproliferation Review 20:2 (July 2013): 381–87.
“The Emergent Nuclear Order in South Asia,” in Peter Shearman, ed., Power Transitions, Security,
and International Order in Asia, London: Routledge, 2013.
“Lives on the Line,” with C. Christine Fair, The Washington Quarterly 36:3 (Summer 2013): 173–
84.
“The Structural Sources of Authoritarianism in Pakistan,” with C. Christine Fair, Commonwealth
and Comparative Politics 51:1 (January 2013): 122–42.
“Indo-Pakistani Relations,” in Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Indian
Politics, London: Routledge, 2012.
“Jihad as Grand Strategy: Pakistan and Islamist Militancy in South Asia,” with S. Paul Kapur,
International Security 37:1 (Summer 2012): 111–41.
“The Indian Elephant,” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, in Donette Murray and David Brown, eds.,
Multipolarity in the 21st Century: A New World Order, London: Routledge, 2012.
“Corruption in India: An Enduring Legacy,” Journal of Democracy 23:1 (January 2012): 138–48.
“Counterinsurgency in India,” with David P. Fidler, in Paul B. Rich and Isabelle Duyesteyn, eds.,
The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, London: Routledge, 2012.
“US Policy toward South Asia,” in Ali Ahmed, Jagannath P. Panda, and Prashant K. Singh, eds.,
Towards a New Asian Order, New Delhi: Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, 2012.
“Piety and Politics: Religious Leadership and the Conflict in Kashmir,” with Praveen Swami, in
Timothy Sisk, ed., Between Tolerance and Terror, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press,
2011.
“The Balance of Power in South Asia,” in B.J.C. McKercher, ed., The Routledge Handbook of
Diplomacy and Statecraft, London: Routledge, 2011.
“The Road from Pokhran II,” in Bhumitra Chakma, ed., The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South
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Asia, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
“Asian Security, Chinese and Indian Power and Nuclear Non-Proliferation,” with David Fidler, in
Ajay Lele and Namrata Goswami, eds., Imagining Asia in 2030: Trends, Scenarios, and
Alternatives, New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2011.
“When India Starved and Britain Stood By: A Review Essay,” Current History 110:735 (April
2011): 165–66.
“Indian Defense Policy,” in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds., The Oxford
Companion to Indian Politics, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“India and Eastphalia,” with David P. Fidler, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 17:1 (Winter
2010): 147–64.
“Prospects for Democracy and Democratization in Asia: Politico-Economic and Radical Islamist
Challenges,” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, in Ashley J. Tellis, Andrew Marble, and Travis Tanner, eds.,
Strategic Asia 2010–11, Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010.
“The Evolving US-China-India Triangular Relationship,” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, Centre for Land
Warfare Studies Journal (New Delhi), Summer 2010.
“South Asia and Foreign Policy,” with Manjeet.S. Pardesi, in Robert A. Denemark, ed., The
International Studies Encyclopedia, Boston: Blackwell, 2010.
“If the Pakistanis Strike Again,” Current History, April 2010.
“Pakistan: Neither State nor Nation,” in Jacques Bertrand and Andre Laliberte, eds., Multination
States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“India and Pakistan: The Origins of Their Different Politico-Military Trajectories,” with Manjeet S.
Pardesi, India Review 9:1 (January–March 2010,): 38–67.
“Indian Security Policy,” in Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer, eds., The Routledge
Handbook of Security Studies, London: Routledge, 2010.
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Islamist Militancy in South Asia,” with S. Paul Kapur, The Washington
Quarterly 33:1 (January 2010): 47–59.
“India Pakistan Rivalry in Afghanistan,” with Nicolas Howenstein, Journal of International Affairs
63:1 (Fall/Winter 2009): 127–40.
“A Vote to Stay the Course,” Journal of Democracy 20:4 (October 2009): 79–88.
“Eastphalia Rising? Asian Influence and the Fate of Human Security,” with David Fidler and Sun
Won Kim, World Policy Journal 26: 2 (Summer 2009): 52–64.
“Explaining Sixty Years of India's Foreign Policy.” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, India Review 8:1
(January–March 2009): 1–16.
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“India in 2008,” Asian Survey 49:1 (January/February 2009): 39–52.
“India Held Back,” Current History 107:712 (November 2008): 369–74.
“The Burden of History,” Journal of Democracy 19:4 (October 2008): 26–31.
“India and Energy Security: A Foreign Policy Priority,” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, in Harsh V. Pant,
ed., Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World, London: Routledge, 2008.
“Nuclear Stability in South Asia,” International Security 33:2 (Fall 2008): 45–70.
Review Essay: “Promoting People Power: What Helps, What Hinders,” World Policy Journal 25:1
(Spring 2008): 89–94.
“India’s Improbable Success,” Journal of Democracy 19: 2 (April 2008): 179–82.
Review Essay: “War, Nuclear Weapons, and Crisis Stability in South Asia,” Security Studies 17:1
(January–March 2008): 164–84.
“India's Rise in Asia,” in David Shambaugh and Michael Yehuda, eds., Asia in the New
International Order, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
“The Transformation of US-India Relations: An Explanation for the Rapprochement and Prospects
for the Future,” with S. Paul Kapur, Asian Survey 47:4 (July/August 2007): 642–56.
“India, Human Rights, and ‘Asian Values,’” in Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt,
and Marilyn B. Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,
2007.
“India Rising: What Is New Delhi to Do?” with Manjeet S. Pardesi, World Policy Journal 24:1
(Spring 2007): 9–18.
“The Rise of India and the India-Pakistan Conflict,” with Manjeet Pardesi, The Fletcher Forum of
World Affairs 31:1 (Winter 2007): 131–45.
“Explaining the Kashmir Conundrum: Prospects and Limitations,” Asia Policy 3 (January 2007):
196–98.
“The Roots of Religious Violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,” in Linell E. Cady and
Sheldon W. Simon, eds., Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence.
London: Routledge, 2006.
“The Case for the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement,” with Dinshaw Mistry, World Policy Journal 28:2
(Summer 2006): 11–19.
“The Kashmir Conundrum,” Foreign Affairs 85:4 (July/August 2006): 45–57.
“U.S.-Indian Relations: A View from New Delhi,” Current History, March 2006.
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“India and Bangladesh,” in Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino, eds., Assessing the Quality of
Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
“Nepal: Between Dictatorship and Anarchy,” with Brian Shoup, Journal of Democracy 16:4
(October 2005).
“The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy in South Asia,” with Michael Kraig, Security Studies (Fall
2005).
“U.S. Policy toward South Asia,” with Brian Shoup, in Juergen Ruland, ed., U.S. Foreign Policy
Toward the Third World: A Post Cold-War Assessment. M. E. Sharpe, 2005.
“Nuclear Crisis Stability in South Asia,” with Kent L. Beringer, in Lowell Dittmer, ed., South Asia’s
Nuclear Security Dilemma. M. E. Sharpe, 2005.
“India and the United States: Forging a Security Partnership?” co-author with Andrew Scobell,
World Policy Journal, Summer 2005 (22:2, 37-44)
“India and Pakistan: Bargaining in the Shadow of Nuclear War,” co-author with Harrison Wagner,
Journal of Strategic Studies, September 2004 (27:3, 479-507)
“Pakistan: The Other Rogue Nation,” Current History, April 2004 (103:672)
“The Sino-Indian Border Question,” in Francine Frankel and Harry Harding, eds., The India-China
Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know. Columbia University Press, 2004
"India's Foreign Policy Grows Up," World Policy Journal, Winter 2003-2004, 41-47.
“The Crisis of Indian Secularism,” Journal of Democracy, October 2003 (14:4)
“The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?” World Policy Journal, Spring 2003 (20:1)
“Introduction,” Journal of Strategic Studies (special issue, “India as an Emerging Power,” Sumit
Ganguly, ed.), December 2002 (25:4)
“Pakistan’s Slide into Misery” (review essay based on Dennis Kux, The United States and Pakistan,
1947-2000; Mary Anne Weaver, Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan; and Owen
Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm), Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002 (81:6, 15359)
“The Islamic Dimensions of the Kashmir Insurgency,” in Christophe Jaffreleot, ed., Pakistan:
Nationalism without a Nation? Manohar (New Delhi), 2002
“India’s Alliances 2020,” in Michael Chambers, ed., South Asian Security in 2020: Future Strategic
Balances and Alliances. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2002
“South Asia and India’s Multiple Revolutions,” Journal of Democracy, January 2002 (13:1)
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“Nuclear Crisis Stability in South Asia,” co-author with Kent Biringer, Asian Survey (special issue,
“Nuclear Issues in South Asia,” Sumit Ganguly, ed.), November/December 2001(41:6)
“Beyond the Nuclear Dimension: Forging Stability in South Asia,” Arms Control Today, December
2001 (31:10)
“Putting South Asia Back Together Again,” Current History, December 2001 (100:650, 410-14)
“Behind India’s Bomb” (review essay based on Ashley J. Tellis, India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture),
Foreign Affairs, September/October 2001 (80:5, 136-42)
“New Delhi and the Kashmir Question, 1947-1998” in Amita Shastri and A. Jayaratnam Wilson,
eds., Human Rights in South Asia. Curzon, 2001
“India’s Territorial Disputes with Pakistan and China: Understanding Security Relations,” in P.
Sahadevan (ed.) Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia. New Delhi: Lancers, 2001
“Pakistan's Never-Ending Story: Why the October Coup Was No Surprise,” Foreign Affairs,
March/April 2000 (79:2, 2-9)
“India’s Pathway to Pokhran II,” International Security, Spring 1999 (23:4, 148-77)
“India: Relations with Its Neighbors,” in Selig S. Harrison, Paul Kreisberg, and Dennis Kux, eds.,
India and Pakistan: Fifty Years of Independence. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press;
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
“India as a Pivotal State,” co-authored with Stephen P. Cohen, in Paul Kennedy, Robert S. Chase,
and Emily B. Hill, eds., Pivotal States and U.S. Strategy. W.W. Norton, 1998
“Options for Resolving the Kashmir Dispute,” in Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative
Politics, March 1998 (36:1, 106-12)
“The Kashmir Problem Revisited,” Current History, December 1997 (96:614, 414-18)
“The Long and Winding Road: Promoting Growth and Averting Decline in India,” in Terry McGee,
ed., The Empowerment of Asia. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 1997
“The Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Programs: A Race to Oblivion?” in Raju G.C. Thomas,
ed., The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century. Macmillan,
1997
“India and Its Neighbors,” in Gautam Adhikari, ed., India: The First Fifty Years. London &
Edinburgh Publishing, 1997
“Future Uncertain: Indian Defense Policy at the End of the Millennium,” Journal of International
Affairs, Summer 1997 (51:1)
“Ethnic Preferences and Political Quiescence in Malaysia,” in Michael E. Brown and Šumit
Ganguly, eds., Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific. M.I.T. Press, 1997
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“India vs. Pakistan: Revisiting the Pacifying Power of Democracy,” in Miriam Fendius Elman, ed.,
Paths to Peace: Is Democracy the Answer? M.I.T. Press, 1997
“Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay: Explaining the Crisis in Kashmir,” International
Security, Fall 1996 (21:2, 76-107)
“National Security,” in Robert Worden, ed., India: A Country Study. Library of Congress, 1996
“Pakistan's Elusive Quest for Security,” in David Wiencek, ed., New Issues in Asian Security. M. E.
Sharpe, 1996
“Stalemate in the Valley: India, Pakistan, and the Crisis in Kashmir,” Harvard International Review,
Summer 1996 (18:3, 16-19ff.)
“Conflict and Crisis in South and Southwest Asia,” in Michael E. Brown, ed., The International
Dimensions of Internal Conflict. M.I.T. Press, 1996
“Arms Control in South Asia: History and Prospects,” Defense Analysis, May 1996 (12:1, 65-75)
“Uncertain India,” Current History, April 1996 (95:600, 145-50)
“Cold Storage: A Nuclear Freeze in South Asia,” in David Cortwright and Amitabh Mattoo, eds.,
The Nuclear Issue in India. University of Notre Dame Press, 1996
“Mending Fences,” in Michael Krepon and Amit Sevak, eds., Confidence and Security Building
Measures in South Asia. St. Martin’s, 1995
“Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Issues and the Stability/Instability Paradox,” in Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism, October-December 1995 (18:4, 325-34)
“Wars Without End: The Indo-Pakistani Conflict,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science (special issue, Small Wars, William Olson, ed.), September 1995 (541: 167-78)
“Conflict and Cooperation in Indo-Pakistani Relations,” in Kanti Bajpai and H.C. Shukul, eds.,
Interpreting World Politics: Essays for A.P. Rana. Sage, 1995
“The Role of the Prime Minister in the Making of Foreign and Defense Policy in India,” in James
Manor, ed., From Nehru to the Nineties: The Chief Executive in India. Christopher Hurst and
Company, 1994
“India and the Crisis in Kashmir,” co-author with Kanti Bajpai, Asian Survey, May 1994 (24:5, 40116)
“India: Charting a New Course?” Current History, December 1993 (92:578, 426-30)
“Ethno-Religious Conflict in South Asia,” Survival, Summer 1993 (35:2, 88-109)
“South Asia after the Cold War,” Washington Quarterly, Autumn 1992 (15:4, 173-84)
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“The Conditions of War and Peace in Kashmir,” in Raju G.C. Thomas, ed., The Roots of Conflict in
South Asia. Westview Press, 1991
“From Aid to the Civil to the Defense of the Nation: The Army in Contemporary India,” Journal of
Asian and African Affairs, 1991 (26: 1-12)
“Deterrence Failure Revisited: The Indo-Pakistani Conflict of 1965,” Journal of Strategic Studies,
December 1990 (13:4, 77-93)
“Avoiding War in Kashmir,” Foreign Affairs, Winter 1990-91 (69:5, 57-73)
“The Quest for Regional Cooperation in South Asia,” in Robert Taylor, ed., Handbooks to the
Modern World: Asia and the Pacific. Facts on File, 1990
“The Sino-Indian Border Talks, 1981-1989: A View from New Delhi,” Asian Survey, December
1989 (29:12, 1123-35)
“Of Great Expectations and Bitter Disappointments: Indo-U.S. Relations during the Johnson
Administration,” Asian Affairs, Winter 1988-89 (15:4, 212-19)
“Soviet-South Asian Relations under Gorbachev,” in Jane Shapiro Zacek, ed., The Gorbachev
Generation. Paragon Press, 1988
“Soviet Strategy in the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia,” co-author with Roger E. Kanet,
Crossroads, Fall 1986 (20, 1-20)
“The Instrumentalities of Soviet Conduct in the Third World: Soviet Economic and Military
Relations,” Coexistence, Spring 1985 (22, 195-213)
“Why India Joined the Nuclear Club,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1983 (39:4, 30-33)
Selected Book Reviews:
Stephen Tankel, Storming the World Stage The Story of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, in The Wall Street
Journal, August 9, 2011.
Mario Esteban Carranza, South Asian Security and International Nuclear Order: Creating a Robust
Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Arms Control Regime, in The Nonproliferation Review, November 2010
(17:3, 577-581).
Deepa Ollapally, The Politics of Extremism in South Asia, in Political Science Quarterly, Winter
2009–2010 (124:4, 754–56).
Raju Thomas, Democracy, Security, and Development in India, in Studies in Comparative
International Development, Summer 1998 (33:2)
Paul Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, in the Journal of Commonwealth and
Comparative Politics, July 1992 (30:2)
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Partha S. Ghosh, Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia, in The Journal of Asian Studies, August
1991 (50:3)
Raju Thomas, Indian Security Policy, in Social Science Quarterly, December 1987 (68:4)
Alexander Dallin, Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers, in Slavic Review, Spring 1986 (45: 1)
Popular Articles:
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“Modi’s Silence on Hindu Violence Threatens India’s Secular Tradition,” World Politics Review,
October 26, 2015.
“When Refugees Were Welcome,” (with Brandon Miliate) ForeignAffairs.com, September 22, 2015.
India’s Achilles Heel,” ForeignAffairs.com, August 18, 2015.
“Modi’s Balancing Act,” ForeignAffairs.com, March 27, 2015
“Modi Bets the Farm,” (with Surupa Gupta), ForeignAfffairs.com, August 12, 2014,
“UPA II: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” Heinrich Boell Foundation (New Delhi), January 29,
2014
“India’s Two Futures,” ForeignAffairs.com, January 22, 2014
“Maid in Manhattan,” ForeignPolicy.com, December 23, 2013
“The End of India’s Sovereignty Hawks? (with Eswaran Sridharan), ForeignPolicy.com, November
15, 2013
“The Battle for Bangladesh,” Foreign Affairs.com, March 13, 2013
“The Reign of Rahul,” Foreign Affairs.com, January 30, 2013
“India’s Dark Night,” with Sunila Kale, Foreign Affairs.com, August 8, 2012
“Think Again: India’s Rise,” ForeignPolicy.com, July 5, 2012
“Delhi’s Strategy Deficit,” The National Interest.org, March 20, 2012
“Early Autumn for the Patriarchs,” The Asian Age, February 23, 2011
“The US Dilemma in the Middle East,” with Rajendra Abhyankar, The Indianapolis Star, February
15, 2001
“Repeat after Me: Pakistan Is Not Egypt,” Foreign Policy.com, February 8, 2011
“A New World Order?” The Asian Age, December 30, 2010
“What Has Delhi Done for Washington Lately?” WSJ.com. October 6, 2010
“Get Tough on Pakistan,” Newsweek International, July 30, 2010
“India’s Machiavellian Turn,” WSJ.com, July 29, 2010
“With Friends Like These …” Foreign Policy.com, July 29, 2010
“The Flag March Won’t Fix Kashmir,” WSJ.com, July 10, 2010
“America’s Other Strategic Dialogue,” The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2010
“Reintegration versus Reconciliation in Afghanistan,” with Harinder Singh, RSIS Commentaries,
March 16, 2010
“Singh’s Shrewd Move,” with David Fidler, Newsweek, December 4, 2009
“Breaking America’s Silence on Pakistan,” The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2009
“Lessons from Mumbai,” Newsweek, October 29, 2009
“The Importance of Being Secular,” The Wall Street Journal Asia, April 13, 2009
“Religious Wars,” Newsweek, March 3, 2009
“India’s Deft Diplomacy,” Newsweek, January 16, 2009
“The Murder of Christians,” Forbes.com, October 16, 2008
“Tide of Intolerance,” Newsweek, October 15, 2008
“Danger Ahead for the Most Dangerous Place in the World,” The Washington Post, October12, 2008
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“Pacifying Kashmir,” The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2008
“Douse the Fire,” The Times of India, August 13, 2008
“Regional Relations: Indian interests lie with a stable Pakistan,” The Financial Times January 24,
2008
“Trapped on the Razor’s Edge,” Newsweek International, November 19, 2007
“Dhaka in Decline,” The Wall Street Journal Asia, November 16, 2007
“A Farce in the Making,” The Times of India, November 14, 2007
“Playing a Weak Hand,” Newsweek International, November 7, 2007
“Musharraf’s End? Crisis in Pakistan,” National Review Online, November 5, 2007
“The Politics of India’s Nuclear Deal,” Newsweek International, September 3, 2007
“Don’t Let Iran Get between US, India,” Newsweek International, August 16, 2007
“Get Set for the Big League,” The Times of India, August 15, 2007
“Bangladesh on the Brink,” with C. Christine Fair, The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2007
“A New Challenge for Bangladesh,” Yale Global Online, March 30, 2006
“Give Bush Credit for India Policy,” The Straits Times (Singapore), March 24, 2006
“On the Right Side of History,” with Alyssa Ayres, The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2006
“Back to Brinksmanship,” American Prospect, July 1, 2002
“Not Oblivious to Oblivion,” Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2002
“On the Brink in Kashmir,” Nation, July 19, 1999
“India’s Campaign,” Nation, December 5, 1997
“Time for Candour in India-U.S. Nuclear Dialogue,” The Times of India, April 29, 1997
“The Indo-Pakistani Wars,” for Microsoft Encarta 1997 CD-ROM encyclopedia, 1997
“The Indo-Pakistani Wars,” and “The Sino-Indian War,” for World English Edition of Microsoft
Encarta 1996 CD-ROM encyclopedia, 1996
“Washington Drops the Big One,” Far Eastern Economic Review, October 19, 1995
“India Needs to Set Priorities with the U.S.,” The Times of India, August 19, 1995
“A Fool's Errand in South Asia,” Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 1994
“Route to Peace in Kashmir,” Christian Science Monitor, November 17, 1993
“Troubled India, A Doomsayer's Paradise,” Dissent, Fall 1991
“India Walks a Middle Path in Gulf Conflict,” Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, March 4, 1991
“Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Developing World and the New Oil Crisis,” International
Executive, January-February 1991
“India's Attitude Toward Foreign Investment,” International Executive, July-August 1990
“The Man Who Would Be India's Prime Minister,” The World and I, March 1990
“The Tangled Tale of Tibet,” Interdependent, May 1989
“Mending Fences in India, Pakistan and China,” The World and I, May 1989
Selected Lectures and Presentations:
Presenter and Chair (invited), “India’s Trajectory Under Modi,” CENTRA Technology, Inc,
Arlington, Virginia, November 19, 2015.
Lecture (invited), “India Under Modi,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, October 21,
2015.
Lecture (invited), “India as a Global Power: Opportunities and Constraints,” Heinrich Boell Stiftung,
Berlin, February 9, 2015.
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Lecture (invited), “India Under Modi: Some Preliminary Observations,” Center for Asian Studies,
Michigan State University, October 6, 2014.
Lecture (invited), “South Asia and Global Security: India’s Pivotal Role,” Annual Roberta Buffett
Lecture, Northwestern University, May15, 2014.
Lecture (invited), “Indian Views on Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello,” 2014 McCain Conference on
Comparative Warfare Ethics: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives, U.S. Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland, April 24, 2014.
Lecture (invited), “Indian Views on the Responsibility to Protect,” 5th Annual Calvin and Helen
Lang Symposium on International Cooperation in Asia, University of Louisville, Kentucky, April 5,
2014.
Lecture, (invited) “Explaining the Violence of the Partition of India,” University of Toronto,
Ontario, March 27, 2014.
Lecture (invited) “Explaining the Puzzle of India’s Democracy,” CarolIndia Visiting Scholar on
India’s Democracy and Foreign Policy, Walker Institute of International and Area Studies,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, March 17, 2014.
Lecture, (invited) “The State of the Indo-US Strategic Partnership,” closing address at the 55th US
Air Force Academy Assembly, Colorado Springs, Colorado, February 5, 2013.
Lecture, “The State of the US-India Strategic Partnership,” at the US-India Strategic Symposium,
New Delhi, December 12, 2013.
Lecture, “India’s Emerging Naval Strategy in Asia,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, Princeton,
New Jersey, December 5, 2013.
Lecture, “India and the Global Liberal Order,” German Marshall Fund, Washington, DC, November
5, 2013.
Lecture, “Tagore and Nationalism,” inaugural Rabindranath Tagore Lecture, Australia-India
Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September 26, 2013.
Lecture, “India and the Liberal Order,” at a conference on Rising Powers and Contested Orders in
the Multipolar System, September 19-20, 2013, Salao da Pastoral PUC, Rio de Janeiro.
Lecture, “Terminating the Indo-Pakistani Rivalry,” at the Buffet Center for International and
Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, April 24, 2013.
Lecture, “India at a Crossroads,” Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law,
Stanford University, March 7, 2013.
Invited participant, conference on “The Cult of the Irrelevant,” at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, February 27–March 1, 2013.
“Terminating the Interminable?” Paper presented at a conference on Sustainable National Security:
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Smarter Strategy for a Changing World, A Tobin Project Conference, December 7–9, 2012.
Keynote Address. “The Great Game Redux? Afghanistan’s Future in the Shadow of 2014,”
conference on South Asia: Conflict, Cooperation or Confusion, Patterson School of Diplomacy and
International Commerce, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, October 11, 2012.
Lecture, “Nuclear Order in South Asia,” at a conference on “Issues of International Order in East
and Southeast Asia”, The Second Macao International Forum, May 26 to May 28, 2012.
Commentator at a workshop on the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030: Alternative
Worlds, University of Notre Dame, April 26-27, 2012.
Lecture, “Explaining India’s Current Foreign Policy Choices,” South Asia Bureau, US Department
of State, Washington, DC, March 22, 2012.
Lecture, “India’s Look East Policy: Retrospect and Prospect,” Center for Naval Analysis,
Alexandria, Virginia, March 22, 2012.
Participant, “Executive Seminar on India,” Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the National
Intelligence Council, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, February 17, 2012.
Lecture, “Islam and Political Mobilization in South Asia: The Prospects for the Future,” at a
conference on “Sustainable Strategies for Afghanistan and the Region After 2014,” Berlin, Aspen
European Strategy Forum/Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, January 9-11, 2012.
Lecture, “The Sources of Instability in Asia,” South Asia Lecture Series, Georgetown University,
November 17, 2011.
Lecture, “India’s Relations with Burma/Myanmar,” at a conference on “China-Myanmar Relations:
The Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence,” Georgetown University, November 4, 2011.
Keynote speech, “The Sources of Continuity and Change in Indian Foreign Policy,” at a conference
on India As a Global Power: Diversity, Democracy and Prosperity, October 3-4, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, October 3-4, 2011.
Commentator, at a panel discussion on “Resources on the Roof of the World: International Politics
and Sustainable Development in the Greater Himalayan Region,” The Henry L. Stimson Center,
Washington, DC, July 27, 2011.
Schumpeter Roundtable Lecture, “The Impact of Chinese and US Policies on South Asian Security,”
German Institute for International and Area Studies, Hamburg, July 21, 2011
Section Chair, Conference on “Politics and Religion in South Asia,” Sciences Po, Paris, June 30,
2011.
Lecture, “Quelling Uprisings at Home: Normative, Legal and Institutional Constraints,” at the Greg
Rosshandler International Conference on ‘Democracies and the Right of Self-Defense,” May 17-18,
2011, Begin-Sadat Center for Security Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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Lecture, “Explaining the Sources of Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation in Indo-Pakistani
Relations,” Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brown-Harvard-MIT South Asia Seminar, Center for
International Studies, MIT, April 29, 2011.
Lecture, “Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation in Indo-Pakistani Relations,” Maison des Sciences
de l’Homme, New Delhi, December 19, 2010.
Panel Chair, “The Afghanistan Endgame and the Pakistan Challenge,” at the India Forum, convened
by the Legatum Institute and the German Marshall Fund, Stockholm, October 1-2, 2010.
Lecture, “The Road to Pokhran I: Revisiting the Indian Nuclear Test of 1974,” Conference on
“Uncovering the Sources of Nuclear Behavior”, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, June 18-20, 2010.
Panel Chair, “India’s Political and Economic Prospects,” Council on Foreign Relations National
Conference, New York, New York, June 11, 2010.
Participant on a panel on “China, India, and the Future of Democracy,” with Francis Fukuyama,
Bruce Gilley and Andrew Nathan, The National Endowment for Democracy, June 3, 2010.
Lecture, “Explaining India’s Foreign Policy Realignment at the Cold War’s End,” Colloquium on
Strategic Trends in the Twenty-First Century, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 4, 2010,
Lecture, “India’s Quest for Great Power Status,” S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Distinguished Public Lecture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 7, 2010.
Lecture, “Structure and Agency in India’s Foreign Policy,” South Asian Studies Program, National
University of Singapore, March 31, 2010.
Paper presentation (with David P. Fidler), “Asian Security, Chinese and Indian Power and Nuclear
Nonproliferation,” at the 12th. Asian Security Conference, “Asian Strategic Futures 2030: Trends,
Scenarios and Alternatives,” at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, February
11-13, 2010.
Lecture, “Three Theories in Search of Reality: Explaining the Violence of the Partition of India,”
International Relations Colloquium, Department of Political Science, University of California at
Berkeley, November 2, 2009.
Lecture, “Three Theories in Search of Reality: Explaining the Violence of the Partition of India,”
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, October 9, 2009.
Lecture, “The Indian Nuclear Tests of 1998: A 10-Year Retrospective,” Conference on “India’s
Nuclear Tests: A Decade After,” University of Hull, August 26-28, 2009.
Lecture, “New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy,” Conference on “Asia in the New Millennium,”
Portuguese Institute on International Affairs, Lisbon, June 2-3, 2009.
Paper, “India’s Security Concerns,” Baker Peace Conference, Engaging China and India: Security,
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Stability, and the Global Economy, Ohio University, April 2-3, 2009.
Lecture, “The Conundrum of Indo-Pakistani Relations,” President’s Circle Program, The Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, March 27, 2009.
Lecture, “Foreign Policy Challenges in South Asia,” Hansen/Hostler Distinguished Lecture Series,
San Diego State University, March 5, 2009.
Keynote Address, “Tolerance and Sustenance for All,” 20th Annual Tagore Festival, Channing
Murray Foundation, University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana, October 25, 2008.
Lecture, “The Political Transition in Pakistan: Implications for India,” Eminent Persons Lecture,
Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, August 19, 2008
Commentator at conference, “Pakistan: Advancing Democracy and Security,” National Endowment
for the Democracy, Washington, DC, May 5, 2008
“South Asia: The Changing Landscape,” Conference – America in the Global Context: Policy
Directions for a New Administration, Pacific Council on International Policy, March 7-8, 2008.
Lecture, “Engaged Democracies: The Future of Indo-US Relations,” Louisville Council on Foreign
Relations, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2007
Paper, “The Rise of India in Asia,” International Relations in Asia: The New Regional Systems
Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 2007
Paper, “Pakistan: Forging a National Identity?” Workshop on Multi-National States in Asia,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 2007
Paper, “India’s Interests in the Persian Gulf,” conference on India and the Gulf, Center for
International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2007
Paper, “The ONGC: Charting a New Course?,” conference on The Changing Role of National Oil
Companies in International Energy Markets, Energy Forum, James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy, Rice University, March 2007
Lecture, "Structure and Contingency in the Transformation of India's Foreign Policy," Mershon
Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, February 2007
Paper, “A Mosque, a Shrine, and Two Sieges,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, March 2007
Lecture, “The United States-India Nuclear Deal: Background, Significance and Prospects,” Institute
of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 2006
Lecture, “India as a Great Power,” Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, August 2005
Paper, “The Indo-Pakistani Rivalry,” annual meeting of the International Studies Association,
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Honolulu, March 2005
Lecture, “U.S.-Indian Relations: Peering Ahead,” World Policy Institute, New School University,
December 2004
Paper, “Assessing the Quality of Democracy in India and Bangladesh,” annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2004
Lecture, “The Domestic Dimensions of the Kashmir Crisis,” Hans Seidel Stiftung, Munich, February
2003
Paper, “The Future of U.S. Policy toward South Asia,” Centre des études et reserches
Internationales, Paris, December 2002
Paper, “American Foreign Policy toward South Asia,” conference on U.S. Foreign Policy toward the
Third World, University of Freiburg, Germany, November 2002
Annual Puri Lecture on South Asia, “The Origins of War in South Asia,” Indiana University,
Bloomington, November 2002
Inaugural lecture in South Asia lecture series, “India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan after September
11,” University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2002
Lecture, “Kashmir after the Elections,” Symposium on Kashmir, Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, October 2002
Lecture, “Conflict Unending in India and Pakistan,” University of Washington, Seattle, October
2002
Lecture, “The Origins of the Kashmir Insurgency,” Symposium on the Kashmir dispute, Agnes Scott
College, October 2002
“The Kashmir Insurgency as a Civil War,” Seminar 21, Aerlie House, Virginia (organized by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology), September 2002
Lecture, “Options for Resolving the Kashmir Dispute,” Duke University, September 2002
Lecture, “National Security Strategies in South Asia,” National Defense University, July 2002
Lecture, “The Gujarat Pogrom: Sources and Explanations,” Ethics and Public Policy Center,
Washington, DC, June 2002
Lecture, “Conflict and Security in South Asia,” University of Vermont, April 2002
Lecture, “The Prospects of War and Peace in South Asia,” University of Missouri, Columbia, April
2002
Lecture, “India, China, and the Tibet Question,” conference on the Cold War and its legacy in Tibet,
Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University, April 2002
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Lecture, “South Asia after September 11,” Northwestern University, February 2002
Lecture, “The Insurgency in Kashmir,” Center for South Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley, February 2002
Lecture, “Reexamining American Options toward the Kashmir Dispute,” Foreign Service Institute
(Arlington, Virginia), December 2001
“U.S. Options in Afghanistan,” Symposium on Recent Developments in Afghanistan, Center for the
Study of Globalization, Yale University, November 2001
Lecture, “The Strategic Consequences of a Nuclear South Asia,” Middlebury College (Vermont),
October 2001
Lecture, “The Turmoil in Afghanistan,” Washington University (St. Louis), September 2001
“The Islamic Dimensions of the Kashmir Insurgency,” Conference on Islam and Politics in South
Asia, Centre des études et reserches internationales, Paris, December 1999
“Managing Internal Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific,” Conference on Security Order in the Asia-Pacific,
East-West Center, Honolulu, October 1999
“CBMs and the Amelioration of Extant Security Issues in South Asia,” Conference on CBMs and
Regional Security in South Asia, Wadduwa, Sri Lanka, June 1999
“Conflict Resolution in South Asia: History and Prospects,” Conference on Conflict Resolution in
South Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 1999
“Indian Strategic Culture,” Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 1999
“Conflict and Cooperation in Indo-Pakistani Relations,” Conference on Indo-Pakistani Relations
after the Nuclear Tests, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, February 18–19, 1999
“Explaining Political Quiescence and Ethnic Conflict in Malaysia and Sri Lanka,” International
Studies Association, Washington, D.C., February 1999
“The Sources of Indo-Pakistani Conflict,” Conference on South Asia after the Nuclear Tests, Center
for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, January 15–16, 1999
“The Sino-Indian Border Question,” American Political Science Association, Boston, September
1998
Annual Finch Lecture on World Affairs, “A Cauldron of Conflict: Ethno-Religious Violence in
South Asia,” Miami University (Ohio), October 2, 1997
“The Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Programs,” Conference on Asia and the New Millennium,
University of San Francisco, September 26–28, 1997
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“The Origins of War in South Asia,” Symposium on Contemporary South Asia, Grinnell College,
September 16–18, 1997
“Options for Resolving the Crisis in Kashmir,” Symposium on Kashmir, University of Texas at
Austin, April 1997
“Ethnic Policies and Political Quiescence in Malaysia,” Association for Asian Studies, Chicago,
March 1997
“The Long and Winding Road: Promoting Growth and Averting Decline in India,” Conference on
the Empowerment of Asia, University of British Columbia, Canada, October 1996
“An Analysis of the Eleventh General Election in India,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington, D.C., June 1995
“War in South Asia: A Retrospective.” Wisconsin Conference on South Asia, Madison, November
1995
“Emergent Security Issues in South Asia.” Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April
1995
“Nuclear Issues in South Asia.” Conference on “Proliferation in Asia after the Cold War,” St.
Antony's College, Oxford University, U.K., February 1995
“U.S. Nonproliferation Policy in South Asia.” Conference on “Security and Cooperation in South
Asia,” Gustav Strasseman Institute, Bonn, Germany, February 1995
“Conflict Resolution in South Asia: An American Perspective.” Fourth U.S.-India Strategic
Symposium, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, September 1993
“A Framework for the Resolution of the Kashmir Crisis: U.S. Policy Options.” First U.S.-Pakistan
Strategic Symposium, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., June 1993
“India's Kashmir Crisis.” Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, March 1993
Conference participant, “The Diffusion of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Developing World.”
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cairo, Egypt, February
1993
“South Asia after the Cold War.” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.,
May 1992
“The Political and Security Implications of the Kashmir Crisis.” India Workshop, Council on
Foreign Relations, New York, May 1992
Commentator, “Sino-Indian Relations after the Cold War.” Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,
Georgetown University, Washington D.C., April 1992
“The Salience of National Issues in the Tenth General Election in West Bengal.” Association for
Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April 1992
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“Regional Security and Nuclear Nonproliferation in South Asia.” Department of Political Science,
Wesleyan University, November 1991
“The Kashmiri Insurgency as a Challenge to Indian Secularism.” Conference on “Religion, Politics,
and Identity—India in Comparative Perspective,” University of Hull, U.K., October 1991
Experts’ Group Discussant on “Regional Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia.” Canadian
Institute of International Peace and Security, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 1991
“Soviet-Indian Relations after the Cold War.” International Studies Association, Vancouver, British
Columbia, March 1991
“Ethnic Mobilization and Political Violence in South Asia.” PAWSS Winter Faculty Workshop on
“Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Regional Conflict,” Amherst College, January 1991
“The Prospects for SAARC.” Conference on Security and Cooperation in South Asia, Villanova
University, November 1990
“Leadership, Misperception and Decision-Making in the Sino-Indian Border Conflict of 1962.”
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 1990
“Sino-Indian Nuclear Futures.” International Studies Association, Washington D.C., April 1990
“Foreign Policy Issues in the Ninth Indian General Elections.” Association of Asian Studies,
Chicago, Illinois, April 1990
Foreign Language Skills:
Bengali (native speaker)
Hindi (fluent)
Urdu (speaking ability)
French (reading ability)