CURRICULUM VITAE  
(Updated December 30 2006)

Education

1999 Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York.
Dissertation: A Path to Trade and Investment Liberalization. Committee Members: David A. Baldwin (sponsor), Helen V. Milner (chair), Jagdish Bhagwati & Sumit Ganguly (externals), Ashutosh Varshney (third reader).

1992 M.Phil, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 

1990 MA, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

1988 BA, Economics (Honors), Delhi University, Delhi.

Specialization

Comparative Political Economy, International Relations & South Asia

Work Experience

   Jobs Held

::  October 5, 2006 – Present – Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067.

::  July 4 2003 - October 4 2006 - Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, New Delhi.

1.      Taught: “Political Economy of Development” (MA Level)

2.      Taught: “International Relations” (MA level)

3.      Co-taught: “Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences” (MPhil)

4.      Taught: “Method in the Social Sciences” (MA Level) 

:: November 1 2001 – July 3 2003 - Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi.

::  1999- 2001 - Assistant Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Fellowships/Visiting Assignments

:: August 2005 – October 2006 - Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore (on leave from JNU). Fellowship involves:

    1. Research:

:: South Asia’s economic regionalism: two working papers in the process of publication.

:: Politics of Economic Liberalization in India: Book project; Editing reader titled: India’s Economic Reforms (Oxford U Press, forthcoming 2006); revise and resubmit from the Journal of Asian Studies; contribution to a Journal of Development Studies special issue.

   2. Policy oriented writing: included principal authorship of a paper on India’s SEZ policy,which was shared with Minister of Commerce and Industry, GOI, Mr. Kamal Nath.

    3. PhD supervision and mentoring an undergraduate student.

::  May 20 2004 – June 25 2004 - Associate, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies - Columbia University, New York.

::  May 20 – August 19, 2002 - Visiting Fellow, Australia South Asia Research Centre - Economics Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

::  Spring 1999 (January – May 1999) - Visiting Lecturer. Department of Political Science, The University of Vermont, Burlington.
   1. Taught: “Introduction to International Relations” (Undergraduate level)
   2. “Seminar in International Relations: International Political Economy”    (Undergraduate level)

::  Fall 1998 - Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College - City University of New York (CUNY), New York.
  1. Taught:  “Introduction to International Politics” (Undergraduate level).

:: Spring 1998 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.
  Assisted: “US Foreign Economic Policy” (undergraduate level).

:: Fall 1997 - Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College – CUNY, New York. 
  1. Taught: “Introduction to International Politics” (Undergraduate level)
  2. Taught: “International Relations of the Third World” (Undergraduate level)

:: Summer 1996 - Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College – CUNY, New York.
  Taught “Introduction to International Politics” (Undergraduate level)

:: 1997-1999 - President’s Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Columbia University, New York.

:: 1993 -1996 - Ambedkar Overseas Fellow in International Relations, Government of India, New Delhi.  

 Publications

Books

    1. Edited with Bibek Debroy, India: The Political Economy of Reforms (New Delhi: Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and         Bookwell, 2004).

    2. Editing, India’s Economic Reforms (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007). This is a reader on India’s economic liberalization.

    3. Under preparation: Unlocking Import Substitution in India – Ideas, Crises and Institutional Change.

Published Papers

   :: Refereed International Journals

  1. “Managing Competition: Politics and the Building of Independent Regulatory Institutions,” India Review  (Routledge), 3, 4 (October 2004), pp. 278-305.   

   2.  “Globalization and the Politics of International Corporate Taxation: A View from India”, India Review (Routledge), vol. 3, no. 2 (April   2004), pp. 89-113.

   3. “India’s Aborted Liberalization – 1966,” Pacific Affairs, vol. 73, no.3 (Fall 2000), pp. 375-392.

   4. With Sumit Ganguly and Rajesh Rajagopalan, “India and South Asian Security,” Defense  and Peace Economics, vol. 10, no. 4 (fall 1999), pp. 31-41.

   :: Chapters in Edited Books

1. “Promoting Competition in India’s Telecom Sector,” in Vikram Chand, ed., Reinventing Public Service Delivery in India (Washington DC and New Delhi: World Bank and Sage, 2006), pp. 57- 94.

2.  “Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool,” in International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home, ed., Kanti Bajpai and M. Siddharth, (New Delhi: Orient Longman,   2005), pp. 367-383. 

3. “A Review of Administrative Reforms in India,” in Agenda for Improving Governance, ed., Bibek Debroy (New Delhi: Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies and Academic Foundation Publishers, 2004), pp. 104-120.

4.  “The Scientific Study of International Cooperation in the Information Technology Age: An Indian Imperative,” in Towards a New Era: Economic, Social and Political Reforms, ed., M. L. Sondhi (New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research and Har Anand, 2001), pp. 63-84.

5.  “The Potential for Trade and Economic Cooperation between India and the US,” in Engaged  Democracies: Indo-US Relations in the 21^st Century, ed., Kanti Bajpai and Amitabh Mattoo (New  Delhi, Har Anand, 2000): 63-84.

:: Non-Refereed Journals

1. “Privatization, Federalism and Governance,” (Special article in a special issue on Globalization and India) Economic and Political Weekly vol. 39, no. 1 (January 3 2004), pp. 109-113.

2. “Digitized Trade Rules and India” South Asian Survey (Sage) vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2004), pp. 21-33.

3. With Bibek Debroy, “Editor’s Introduction (to the special issue on The Politics an Economics of Liberalization in India),” Global Business Review (Sage), vol. 3, no. 2 (July-December 2002), pp. 195-199.

4.  “The Danger of Conflict and the Prospect of Cooperation in South Asia,” Harvard Asia Pacific Review (winter 2000-2001).

5.   “Economic Power as an Instrument of Statecraft,” Indian Defense Review, 15, 3 (September 2000),  pp. 46-50.

6.  “Global Political Economy, Regionalism and South Asia,” Man and Development (Center for Research in Rural and Industrial Development: India) vol. 14, no. 2 (June 1992), pp. 120-129.

Forthcoming Papers

1. “Institutional Change in a Plural Polity: From Government Monopoly to Regulated Competition in Indian Telecommunications”, Journal of Asian Studies (JAS). Status: Revised manuscript sent to JAS.

2.  “Economic Transition in a Plural Polity,” in Economic Reforms: Political Economy of India, ed., Rahul Mukherji (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007).

3.  “The Politics of Telecommunications Regulation in India: Explaining State - Industry Alliances Favoring Foreign Investment” accepted conditional on revisions, Journal of Development Studies.

4.  “Appraising the Legacy of Bandung: A View from India,” in Amitav Acharya and Tan See Seng, eds., Bandung Revisited (Singapore, Singapore University Press, forthcoming).

5. “The Indian State Under Globalization,” in Subrata Banerjee, ed., Haksar Memorial Volume IV (Chandigarh, India: CRRID, forthcoming 2007).

6. “Explaining Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation in South Asia: The Indo - Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement” to be edited E Sridharan in a book to be published on IR Theory and South Asia.  Status: First draft presented.

Working Papers / Reports / Course Material

1.  with Aparna Shivpuri Singh, “Investing in the Indian Special Economic Zones: A Background Paper,” Institute of South Asian Studies Working Paper 12 (Singapore, 30 May 2006). This paper was shared with the India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry as the Singapore Approach Paper. 

2.  “Appraising the Legacy of Bandung,” Institute of South Asian Studies Working Paper No. 11 (Singapore, 8 May 2006). http://isas.dreamvision.com.sg/events/workingpapers/11.pdf 

3.  “Promoting Foreign Investment in India’s Telecom Sector,” Institute of South Asian Studies Working Paper No. 10 (Singapore, 4 May 2006). http://isas.dreamvision.com.sg/events/workingpapers/10.pdf 

4.  “The Emerging Institutional Architecture of Trade in South Asia,” Berkeley APEC Study Centre Working Paper 2006 – 08 (Berkeley, University of California). See: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~basc/f_research.htm .

5.  “Regulatory Evolution in Indian Telecommunications,” Institute of South Asian Studies Working Paper No. 7 (Singapore, January 2006). http://isas.dreamvision.com.sg/events/workingpapers/7.pdf

6.  “Economic Transition in a Plural Polity: India,” Institute of South Asian Studies Working Paper No. 5 (Singapore, November 2005). http://isas.dreamvision.com.sg/events/workingpapers/5.pdf

7.  “The Indian State under Globalization: A Research Agenda,” Paper for the Ford Foundation’s Project on Globalization and the Indian State: A Research Project: Working Paper Number 1, see: http://www.globalizationinindia.com/html/working_papers.html

8.  “India in the Global Economic Order,” Indira Gandhi National Open University Course on South Asia: Economy, Society and Polity, Country Profile: India II (New Delhi, 2005).

9.  Digitized Trade Rules and India’s Service Sector (Bombay: MVIRDC – World Trade Centre & Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2003).

10. “Digitized Trade Rules and India’s Service Sector,” Centre for the Study of Law and Governance Working Paper, No CSLG/WP/03-03 (New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2003).

11. Governing the Taxation of Digitized Trade [Canberra: Australia South Asia Research Centre - Economics Division (Australian National University) Working Paper No. 2002/05, 2002]. See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/asarc/RahulMukherji.pdf 

12. The Governance of Digitized Trade Taxation (New Delhi: Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies – Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Working Paper no. 36, 2002).

13. “Administrative Reforms in India,” Agenda for Improving Governance – vii (New Delhi: Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2002).

Book Review / Comments

1.  Review of Aseema Sinha’s, Divided Leviathan: The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), in the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 44, 3 (November 2006).

2.  “The South Asian Earthquake and the Kashmir Conundrum,” South Asia (Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore), No. 3 (February 2006).

3.  “India’s Energy Security: Challenges and Prospects,” South Asia (Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore), No. 2 (October 2005), pp. 14-15.

4.  Review of Lawrence Saez’s, Federation without a Centre (New Delhi: Sage, 2002), The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 63, no. 3 (August 2004).

5.  With Sudha Pai, Pradeep Sharma and Pralay Kanungo, “Uttar Pradesh in the 1990’s: Critical Perspectives on Society, Polity and Economy,” Economic and Political Weekly vol. 50, No. 21 (May 21, 2005), pp. 2144 – 2147.

6.  With Aparna Shivpuri Singh, “The Special Economic Zones: How Special Are They?” South Asia (Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore), No. 4 (June 2006). Republished as, “Just how Special are India’s SEZs?” Business Times (Singapore), July 19 2006, p. 20.

Select Grants

1.  2005-2006 – Grant for field-work in India on the politics of the budgets and telecom regulation Dec-Jan 2005/2006. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. S $ 7200/- approx.

2. 2005-2007 – A paper on the political economy of South Asian Regionalism. Project titled, Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Managing Trade and Security Relations in a Post 9-11 World. Being coordinated by the Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley. Funding: Center for Global Partnership, The Japan Foundation and the Berkeley APEC Study Centre. Honorarium: US$ 1500.

3.  2004-2005 – A paper titled, Appraising the Legacy of Bandung: A View from India. Commissioned by the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore. Final draft accepted. Grant: S$ 1000/-.

4.  2005-2006 – A paper for a book Reinventing Public Service Delivery in India (Washington DC and New Delhi: World Bank and Sage, 2006) on the telecom transformation in India. Commissioned by The World Bank, Honorarium: US$ 6000/- paid for by the Bank (See forthcoming publications).

5. 2004-2005 - Grant from the Ford Foundation to write a background paper for the project titled “The Indian State under Globalization: A Research Agenda”. Grant: Rupees 75, 000/- or $ 1600/- (including honorarium). Working paper completed, see the seventh item in the section on working papers.

6. 2003-2004 - Grant from the South Asia Studies Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, to write a paper titled: Managing Competition: Building Regulatory Institutions in India. Project completed (See Published paper no. 1). Grant: US$ 2200/- (including honorarium).

7. 2003-2005 - Grant from the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, to write a paper titled: The Politics of Regulation Favoring Foreign Investment in Indian Telecommunications. Revised Paper submitted. Honorarium: US$ 1800/- Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Development Studies.

8. 2002-2006 - University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India and Ford Foundation Grant to study: Security and Trade in South Asia: Lessons from Three South Asian Dyads. Honorarium: $ 1000/-. Paper presented for publication. Revisions to be submitted.

9. 2001-2003 - M. V. Industrial Research and Development Centre - World Trade Centre, Mumbai (Bombay): Grant for project titled: “Indian Industry and The Evolving E-commerce Regime,” Project completed. Rupees 2, 30, 000/- (= US$ 5100/- approximately).

10. 2000 - The Asia Foundation Grant No. 84-621-62-03001 to write a paper on The Potential for US – South Asian Trade and Economic Cooperation. Project completed. Honorarium plus research grant: US$ 1300/-.

11. 1998 - Columbia University Travel Grant to attend the Annual Conference on South Asia, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

12. 1998 - Smith Richardson Grant to attend the International Studies Association’s 39^th Annual Conference in Minneapolis between 18^th and 21^st March 1998.

13. 1996 - Smith Richardson Grant for dissertation field research in India during the summer of 1997. US $ 2000/-.

Memberships

1. 1996-1999; 2006-2007 Member, International Studies Association.

2. 1996-1999, 2006-2007 Member, American Political Science Association.

3. 2004- Present - Member, Editorial Board, India Review (Routledge). See:     http://www.indiareview.org/

4. 2003-2004 - Member, National Screening Committee for the Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Grants, United States Education Foundation in India, New Delhi.

5. 2002 – Present - Life Member – Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.

6. 2001 – 2004 - Member – Core Group, Network on South Asian Politics and Political Economy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The network included scholars on South Asian politics and political economy residing in the US, India and Europe, coordinated by the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan. (See: www.umich.edu/~iinet/csas/events/netsappe/index.html) .

5.  2003-2005 - Department Work in JNU

a. October-November 2006, Co-coordinator, Refresher Course in Political Science for Lecturers, Academic Staff College, JNU.

b.  2006-07, Convener Finance, University Grants Commission – Special Assistance Program for the Centre for Political Studies, JNU

c. 2005-2006 – Coordinator of Evaluation, All India Entrance Exams for MA in the Centre for Political Studies, JNU.

d.  2004-2005 – Faculty in Charge, Student Faculty Committee, JNU, New Delhi.

e.  2003 - 2004 Co-convener, Centre for Political Studies Seminar Series.

Referee-ship

1. Referee for Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

2. Referee for Sage Publishers, New Delhi.

3. Referee for The Brill series on Social Sciences in Asia, Leiden.

4. World Resources Institute, Washington DC.

5. Guest editor: Global Business Review (Sage, New Delhi), vol. 2 no. 3 (July-December 2002). Special issue on the Politics and Economics of Liberalization in India.

6. Referee: Review of International Political Economy (Routledge)

7. Referee: Pacific Affairs (Vancouver: University of British Columbia)

8. Referee: Asian Survey (University of California, Berkeley)

9. Referee: Business and Politics (The Berkeley Electronic Press, Berkeley)

10. Referee: South Asian Survey [Sage, New Delhi]

11. Evaluation

11.1 Suparna Bhattacharjee, Developing Countries and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Evolving Approaches and Shifting Coalitions (New Delhi: Doctoral Dissertation Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2001).

11.2 Amrita Isaacs, International Labor Standards: Implications for Trade, Rights and Non-Trade Related Policies (New Delhi: M.Phil Dissertation Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2001).

11.3 Anurag Pandey, United Nations and Protection of Minority Rights: A Case Study of India (New Delhi: M.Phil. Dissertation Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2002).

11.4 Jaby Mathew, Globalization and its Novelties [Master’s thesis, Delhi University, 2003].

Student Supervision

Supervised

1. Biswaranjan Mallick: PhD Dissertation Titled: Changes in Indo-US Relations Beyond the Cold War.   PhD – 2005.
2. Ajoy K Lywait: MPhil Thesis Titled: Comparing Regulation in Power and Telecom Sectors in India. M.Phil. - 2005.
3. Sitaram Kumbhar: The Politics of Poverty in Orissa: Comparing Kalahandi, Bolangir, Koraput (KBK) and Cuttack District. M.Phil - 2006.

Ongoing Supervision

M.Phil.

Siddhartha Mukerji - State and Industrial Transformation in India – 1966-1987, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Submitted.

PhD Committee Membership

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi - Comparing the Vernacular and National Media in India, South Asia Studies Program - National University of Singapore. Student has cleared comprehensive exams and the PhD proposal stage.

Undergraduate

Falak Sufi – intern at the Institute of South Asian Studies, working on a paper titled: “Kashmir”: Constructing “Imbroglio”

Select Presentations

1.   December 14, 2006 – Paper titled: The Institutional Architecture for Trade in South Asia, Conference organized by the Berkeley Asia –Pacific Study Centre, University of California, Berkeley and the Centre for Global Partnership, Japan. Venue: East-West Centre, Hawaii, USA.

2.   November 5, 2006- Paper titled: Globalization and the Indian State – A Research Agenda, P N Haksar Memorial Conference, Centre for Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, India.

3.   December 10, 2005 - Paper titled: The Institutional Architecture for Trade in South Asia, Conference organized by the Berkeley Asia –Pacific Study Centre, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

4.   November 16, 2005 - Paper titled: Institutional Change in a Plural Polity: from Government Monopoly to Regulated Competition in Indian Telecommunication, South Asia Studies Program - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

5.   April 15, 2005 - Paper titled: Appraising the Legacy of Bandung: A View from India, at the Pan Pacific Hotel, organized by the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore.

6.   June 29, 2004 - Paper titled: Globalization and the Politics of International Corporate Taxation: a View from India, at the Third Meeting of the Network of South Asian Politics and Political Economy held in CERI, Paris, France.

7.   June 14, 2004 - Paper titled: Promoting Competition Through Institutional Change: Telecom Regulation in India, Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

8.   May 17, 2004 - Paper titled: Managing Competition: Building Regulatory Institutions in India, at the South Asia Seminar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA.

9.   August 13, 2002 - Paper titled: The Governance of Digitized Trade Taxation: Indian and Australian Interests, at the Economics Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

10. July 2, 2002 - Paper titled Economic Transition in a Plural Polity, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. This was a conference of the Network on South Asian Politics and Political Economy.

11. September 27, 2001 - Presented a paper titled “The Politics of Internet Trade Regulation,” for the inaugural conference organized by the Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

12. March 28, 2000 - Presented a paper titled Promoting Trade and Economic Cooperation between South Asia and the US, for the Conference on Rethinking America’s Role in Asia – South Asia Conference, organized by The Asia Foundation (Washington), in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

13. December 9, 1998 - Paper titled Hypotheses on the Political Economy of Trade and Investment Liberalization in the Developing World Advanced Graduate Student Speaker Workshop, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, USA.

14. October 16, 1998 - Paper entitled The Political Economy of Trade and Investment Liberalization in India, Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

15. March 21, 1998 - Paper entitled Trade and Financial Liberalization in the Developing World, at the International Studies Association’s 39^th Annual Convention in Minneapolis, USA.

::   In addition, I have lectured or made presentations at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), World Bank (New Delhi), Dartmouth College (USA), the Academic Staff College [JNU], the National Defence College [New Delhi], Civil Services College [Singapore], The University of Canberra Business School [Canberra], the University of Amsterdam, the United Services Institution [New Delhi], Jammu University [Jammu], Central University [Hyderabad], Rajiv Gandhi Foundation [New Delhi], the Centre for Policy Research [New Delhi], and the Ford Foundation [New Delhi].

::   Opinion articles have appeared in The Hindustan Times [New Delhi], The Telegraph [Calcutta], Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), South Asia (Singapore), Business Times (Singapore) and India Abroad [New York]. I have been interviewed by Mediacorp’s Channel News Asia on Singapore television.