Siddharth Mallavarapu
Ph.D. (JNU)
Assistant Professor in International
Politics
Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD),
School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi -110 067
INDIA
Dr Mallavarapu joined the Centre Faculty in 2004. He completed his doctoral thesis on the politics of norm creation in the context of an Advisory Opinion rendered by the International Court of Justice in 1996 on nuclear weapon threat or use. His principal area of academic focus is International Relations theory. Dr Mallavarapu retains a special interest in issues related to the postcolonial ‘politics of knowledge’ and is conscious of examining the claims advanced in the discipline of International Relations through these lenses. His immediate teaching commitments include M.Phil. courses on Culture, Norms and Identity in World Politics and Globalization and the State. He has co-edited two books on recent Indian contributions to International Relations theory. Prior to this, he has also contributed articles reflecting on the implications of the July 1996 Advisory Opinion on dimensions of the Indian nuclear programme.
Publications
(a) Co-edited Books
Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds., International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home, (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
Kanti P.Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds., International Relations in India: Theorizing the Region and Nation (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
International Relations Theory and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security (WISCOMP, forthcoming).
[co-author] Gender and Armed Conflict in Kashmir (WISCOMP, forthcoming).
(c) Articles
“The Template of Globalization and the Making of Indian Foreign Policy” (IEEI, Brazil, forthcoming).
“Normative Politics of Regime Formation: Human Rights in the South Asian Context” (University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), forthcoming).
“Introduction” in Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds., International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home, (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
“States, Nationalisms and Modernities in Conversation: Problematizing International Relations in India” in Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds., International Theory in India: Bringing Theory Back Home (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2005).
“A Mandate for Nuclear Prudence: International Court of Justice on Nuclear Weapons” in M.V. Ramana and C. Rammanohar Reddy, eds., Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003).
“Because of America”, Seminar, September 2003, No.529, Empire: A symposium on the emerging world order, pp.65-8.
“Postcolonialism, International Law and the Nuclear Question”, International Studies, vol.37, no.2, 2000, pp.129-42 (appeared under the category ‘Notes and Comments’).
“The Legality of Nuclear Weapons” in Amitabh Mattoo, ed., India’s Nuclear Deterrent: Pokhran II and Beyond (Delhi: Har Anand, 1999) pp.239-69.
“Judge Weeramantry and the World Court: A Note of Dissent”, Social Action, April-June 1999, vol.49, no.2, pp.188-202.
“The Legal Status of Nuclear Weapons”, Seminar, August 1998, No.468, Nuclear (In) Security: a symposium on the fallout of the nuclear tests, pp.69-71.
(d) Review Articles
“Globalisation and the Great Indian City: An Evolving Grammar of Dreams and Delusions” South Asian Survey, vol.12, no.2, July-December 2005, pp.307-19. The article is organized around three books: Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (New Delhi: Penguin Viking, 2004); Veronique Dupont, Emma Tarlo and Denis Vidal, eds., Delhi: Urban Space and Human Destinies (New Delhi: Manohar, 2000) and James Heitzman, Network City: Planning the Information Society in Bangalore (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004).
“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Developing World In Post-Cold War Times” Book Review, vol.XXIV, no.s 1 & 2, January-February 2000, pp.63-5 based on a book by Robert Chase, Emily Hill, Paul Kennedy, eds., The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in The Developing World (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999).
(e) Reviews of Books and Monographs
Rajen Harshe, Interpreting Globalisation: Perspectives in International Relations (New Delhi: Rawat, 2004) in Economic and Political Weekly, February 19-25, 2005, vol.XL no.8, pp.737-40.
Sumantra Bose, The Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (New Delhi: Vistaar Publications, 2003) in National Review, July 2004, vol.2, no.7, pp.76-8.
Leong Yew, The Disjunctive Empire of International Relations (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) in International Studies, vol.41, no.4, 2004, pp.436-8.
Michael Krepon, Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia (New Delhi: Vision Books, 2003), ‘Re-assessing Historical Precedents: Towards Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia’ <http://www.ipcs.org/newDisplayReview>
Ashley Tellis, India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001) in Deccan Herald, June 2, 2002.
Raja Menon, A Nuclear Strategy of India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000) in Deccan Herald, September 17, 2000.
a. Rajesh M. Basrur, ed., Security in the New Millennium: Views from South Asia (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2001).
b. Stephen Cohen, India: Emerging Power (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).
c. Haider K. Nizamani, The Roots of Rhetoric: Politics of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2001).
Combined review in Deccan Herald, May 19, 2002.
Ashok Kapur, Pokhran and Beyond: India’s Nuclear Behaviour (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001) in Deccan Herald, April 21, 2002.
Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India’s Quest to be a Nuclear Power (Delhi: Harper Collins, 2000) in Deccan Herald, June 19, 2000.
Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik South Asia on A Short Fuse (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999) in Deccan Herald, April 2, 2000.
N.Ram, Riding the Nuclear Tiger (New Delhi: Leftword, May 1999) in Deccan Herald, February 6, 2000.
Itty Abraham, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State (Delhi: Orient Longman, 1999) in Deccan Herald, January 23, 2000.
Yeun Foong Khong, Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bhi Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992) in International Studies, vol.37, no.3, 2000, pp.264-6.
Volker Bornshier and Christopher Chase Dunn, The Future of Global Conflict (New Delhi: Sage, 1999) in Deccan Herald, October 3, 1999.
K.P.S. Gill and Ajai Sahni, eds., Faultlines, (Vol.2) (New Delhi: Bulwark, August 1999) in Deccan Herald, September 26, 1999.
Verghese Koithara, Society, State and Security: The Indian Experience (New Delhi: Sage, 1999) in Deccan Herald, September 6, 1999.
Jonathan Schell, The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now (New Delhi: Penguin, 1998) in Deccan Herald, July 22, 1999.
Olle Tornquist, Politics and Development: A Critical Introduction (London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999) in Deccan Herald, July 1, 1999.
Neil Joeck, Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia, Adelphi Paper 312; OUP, New York, 1997 and Ashley Tellis, Stability in South Asia RAND Documented Briefing, Arroyo Center, 1997 in Seminar, August 1998, No.468, Nuclear (In)security: a symposium on the fallout of the nuclear tests, pp.87-9.