Rajesh Rajagopalan
Ph.D. (City University,
New York)
Professor in International
Politics
Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD),
School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi -110 067
INDIA
(+91 11) 2670-4593/4349 [work];
(+91 11) 2671-7586 [fax]
Rajesh Rajagopalan is Professor in International Politics at Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies. He has a PhD from the City University of New York (1998). Previously, he was Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He also served as Deputy Secretary in the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India (2000-2001). He has taught at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and Queens College of the City University of New York. His areas of research interest are international relations theory, military doctrines, and nuclear weapons and disarmament. Some of his recent and forthcoming publications include:
Books
Fighting Like a Guerrilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency (New Delhi: Routledge, 2008; and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2008)
Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia (New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2005)
Chapters in Books
“Force and Compromise: India’s Counterinsurgency Grand Strategy,” in P.R. Kumaraswamy and Ian Copeland (editors), Terrorism in South Asia: The Changing Trends (New Delhi: Routledge, forthcoming)
(with Marianne Hanson) “WMD Modernization in South Asia: Global Ramifications,” in William Tow (editor) Re-envisioning Asia-Pacific Security: A Regional-Global Nexus (chapter under review).
“Assured Retaliation: The Logic of India’s Nuclear Strategy” in Muthiah Alagappa (editor) The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
“Constructivist-Realist Perspective on Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy”, in Madhu Bhalla (editor), Asian Politics: Shaping Asian Security and Foreign Policy (chapter under review).
“India and Fourth Generation War”, in Terry Tieff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp (editors) Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict: Debating Fourth Generation (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2007)
“India-Pakistan Security Discourse,” in Amitabh Mattoo, Kapil Kak and Happymon Jacob (editors), India and Pakistan: Pathways Ahead (New Delhi: Knowledge World/Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, 2007)
“The Threat of Unintended Uses of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia” in E. Sridharan (ed.) The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations (New Delhi: Routledge, 2007; and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2007)
“Nuclear Deterrence and Defence,” in Jasjit Singh (ed.,) Aerospace Power and India’s Defence (New Delhi: Knowledge World/Centre for Air Power Studies, 2006)
“India: Geopolitical Challenges Ahead,” in South African Yearbook of International Affairs 2005 (Johannesburg: The South African Institute of International Affairs, 2006)
“Structural Imperatives and Asian Security,” in R.R. Sharma (ed.), India and Emerging Asia (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005)
“Prospects for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime”, in Uday Bhaskar and C. Raja Mohan, Emerging Nuclear Proliferation Challenges (New Delhi: IDSA and Indian Pugwash Society, 2005)
“Understanding Sub-national and international Conflicts in South Asia” in V.R. Raghavan and Karl Fischer (eds.) Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in Sri Lanka (New Delhi: Tata-McGraw Hill, 2005)
“Neorealist Theory and the India-Pakistan Conflict,” in Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds.) International Relations in India: Theorising the Region and Nation (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2004)
“Re-examining the ‘Forward Policy’ ” in P.R. Kumaraswamy (ed.) Security Beyond Survival: Essays for K. Subrahmanyam, (New Delhi: Sage, 2004)
“Nuclear Flux? The Future of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation,” in Jasjit Singh (ed.), Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation (New Delhi: CSIS/Knowledge World, 2004)
“Making Peace in South Asia: Global Balances and Regional Consequences,” in P. Sahadevan (ed.) Controlling Competition: Managing Contentious Issues in South Asia (New Delhi: Lancer, 2001)
“Nuclear Deterrence: The Return of the Denial Strategy,” in Jasjit Singh (ed.) Asian Strategic Review, 1998-99 (New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1999)
“The Expanding Purposes of Nuclear Deterrence,” in Jasjit Singh (ed.) Asian Security in the 21st Century (New Delhi: IDSA/Knowledge World, 1999)
(With Sumit Ganguly), “U.S. Nuclear Policy Towards South Asia,” in Otfried Ischbeck and Gotz Neuneck (eds.) Cooperative Policies for Preventing and Controlling the Spread of Missiles and Nuclear Weapons: Policies and Perspectives in Southern Asia (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996).
Refereed Journal Articles
“Force and Compromise: India’s Counterinsurgency Grand Strategy,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 30:1 (April 2007), pp. 75-91.
“India: Largest Democracy and Smallest Debate?,” Contemporary Security Policy, special issue on “The Domestic Politics of Missile Defence” 26:3 (December 2005), pp. 605-20.
“The Threat of Unintended Uses of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia” India Review 4:2 (April 2005), pp. 214-32.
“Missile Defences in South Asia: Much Ado about Nothing,” South Asian Survey 11:2 (September 2004), pp. 205-17.
“Innovations in Counterinsurgency: The Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles,” Contemporary South Asia, 13:1 (March 2004), pp. 25-37.
“The Evolution of Pakistan’s Nuclear Policy, 1999-2001” South Asian Survey, 10:2 (July-December 2003), pp. 231-46.
“ ‘Restoring Normalcy’: The Evolution of the Indian Army’s Counterinsurgency Doctrine,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, 11:1 (Spring 2000), pp. 44-68.
(With Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji), “India and South Asian Security,” Defence and Peace Economics, 10:4 (fall 1999), pp. 335-45.
Occasional Papers
What Stability-Instability Paradox? Sub-national Conflicts and the Nuclear Risk in South Asia, SASSU (South Asian Strategic Stability Unit) Research Paper No. 4 (February 2006) at http://www.sassu.org.uk/pdfs/R_Rajagopalan.pdf
“Explaining India’s Pursuit of Ballistic Missile Defences,” Raketenabwehrforschung International, Bulletin No. 47 (Fall 2004), Frankfurt am Main 2004.
(with Rollie Lal) India-US Strategic Dialogue, (New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation and RAND, October 2004)
Other Research Articles
“Doctrine, Strategy and Nuclear Weapons,” Air Power, 3:3 (Monsoon 2006), pp. 95-108.
“Nuclear Deterrence: The Concept,” in Relevance of Nuclear Deterrence (New Delhi: Delhi Policy Group/Nuclear Threat Initiative Monograph, 2006), pp. 6-28.
“The Evolution of India’s Nuclear Doctrine,” Security and Society, 1:1 (Winter 2004), pp. 99-110.
Newspaper Articles
“Don’t Count On A Third Chance,” Indian Express, March 10, 2008
“Dear Leader’s Olive Branch,” Indian Express, February 15, 2007
“Swordsplay in the Dark,” Indian Express, January 3, 2007
“No Bipolar Disorder This Time,” Indian Express, March 20, 2006
“The Indo-US Deal is a Huge Victory for Our Strategy” Financial Express (New Delhi), 25 July, 2005
“The US and the South Asia Tangle,” The Hindu, 9 May 2003