Manjeet Pardesi

Introduction

Dr Manjeet S Pardesi is Senior Lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations Programme and Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests include international relations in global history, great power politics, strategic rivalries, Asian security, and Indian foreign policy.

Dr Pardesi obtained his PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has an MSc in Strategic Studies from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (now S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his BEng (Electrical & Electronic) from NTU as well.

He is currently the Managing Editor of the journal Asian Security (since June 2018). He is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security (Oxford, 2018) and India’s Military Modernization: Challenges and Prospects (Oxford, 2014). His articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Survival, Asian Security, Australian Journal of International Affairs, International Politics, Commonwealth &Comparative Politics, International Studies Perspectives, Nonproliferation Review, Air & Space Power Journal (of the United States Air Force), The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, World Policy Journal, India Review, Defense and Security Analysis, and in several edited book volumes.

Areas of Interest and Expertise

• Order and Change in World Politics, with an emphasis on Historical International Relations and the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
• Asian Security Architecture
• Indian Foreign Policy, especially India-China Relations