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Rajesh Rajagopalan

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament,

School of International Studies

Off. Phone

011-26704349

r_rajesh@mail.jnu.ac.in , rajesh622@yahoo.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/rgopalan/cv.pdf

Qualifications

PhD in Political Science (City University of New York)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

International Relations Theory, National and International Security

Experience

ICCR Visiting India Chair, Political Science and International Relations Programme, Victoria University Wellington, July-October 2011.

Chair, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2009-2010)

Associate Professor in International Politics, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (March 2004 – March 2008 )

Member, Executive Council, Indian Pugwash Society (2005- 2010)

Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi (November 2002-March 2004)

Deputy Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India (October 2000- October 2001)

Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (August 1998- October 2000, October 2001- November 2002)

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

“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.

“Innovations in Counterinsurgency: The Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles,” Contemporary South Asia, 13:1 (March 2004), pp. 25-37.

“ ‘Restoring Normalcy’: The Evolution of the Indian Army’s Counterinsurgency Doctrine,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, 11:1 (Spring 2000), pp. 44-68.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Fighting Like a Guerrilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency (New Delhi, India and Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2008)

Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia (New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2005)

Patents (if any)