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Rajesh Rajagopalan

Rajesh Rajagopalan

Rajesh Rajagopalan
Rajesh Rajagopalan
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament,
School of International Studies
Off. Phone
011-26704349
Email
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)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.