Rajesh Rajagopalan
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre:
Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament,
School of International Studies
Off. Phone:
011-26704349
Email:
r_rajesh@mail.jnu.ac.in , rajesh622@yahoo.com
Personal Webpage:
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 (upto 5):
“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 (upto 3):
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):
NA