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T.V. Paul

Academic title(s): 

Distinguished James 平特五不中 Professor

T.V. Paul
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855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
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514-396-1974
Email address: 
t.paul [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 528
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Honored with the Establishment of T.V. Paul Lecture Series in Peace and Security, Faculty of Arts, 平特五不中, May 2024.
  • Best International Politics Course (Poli 360: Strategies of War and Peace), Political Science Students' Association, 平特五不中, April 2024.
  • , 2024.
  • Honored with the establishment of by the Global International听Studies Section (GIRS) of International Studies Association (ISA), May 2023.
  • , Kerala State Higher Education Council, January-February 2023.
  • Director (Founding), , 2019鈥�.
  • Fellow (Elected), Royal Society of Canada, September 2018.
  • James 平特五不中 Professor听of international Relations.
  • President, International Studies Association (ISA), 2016-2017.
  • President-Elect, International Studies Association (ISA), 2015-2016.
  • Erudite Fellow, Kerala State Higher Education Council, India, January 2016.
  • Included in the A-List of 41 Most Influential Indo-Canadians and Friends of India, , Toronto, January 2015.
  • Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecturer,听Utah Council for Citizen听听Diplomacy, March 2014.
  • The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professor (Visiting) of International Relations, S. Rajaratnam School of听International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August听2014.
  • Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Distinguished Lecturer, Claremont-McKenna College,听February 2014.
  • Team Leader, Globalization and the National Security State Project (Won 4 Consecutive Team Grants from FQRSC- 2002-2017).
  • Best Professor in International Relations, World Education Congress, Mumbai, June 2012.
  • Vice President (Elected), International Studies Association (ISA), 2013-2014.
  • KPS Menon Chair (Visiting) for Diplomatic Studies 2011-2012, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India.
  • Honorary Member, The Golden Key International Honour Society (September 2011-).
  • , A Television Interview Series with Leading Scholars and Practitioners, University of California, Berkeley, October 2009.
  • Distinguished Award in Arts and Letters, Indian American Kerala Center, New York, November 2009.
  • 叠辞辞办,听The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons听has been Selected for Inclusion in the Peace Prize Laureate Exhibition Honoring President Barack Obama by the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, November 2009.
  • Faculty of Arts 2005 Award for High Distinction in Research, 平特五不中.
  • James 平特五不中 Chair, 2003.
  • 鈥淧opular Professor,鈥� Maclean鈥檚 Guide to Canadian Universities, 2005.
  • Peace Scholar Award, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., 1989.
Degree(s): 

PhD, UCLA

Curriculum vitae: 
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Bio-Sketch
Selected Review Excerpts of T.V. Paul's Books
For the text of this speech, see ISA Presidential Address
Research areas: 
International Relations
Areas of interest: 
  • International Security
  • India/Rising Powers
  • International Relations Theory
  • War & Conflict
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Regional Security
  • Asia
  • Comparative Politics (South Asia)
Professional activities: 

President,
Editor, Georgetown University Press Book Series:听
President-Elect,
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Selected publications: 

Books

The New Cold War and Regional Orders in the 21st Century (co-editor and contributor with Markus Kornprobst), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, forthcoming, 2025.

(Co-editor & Contributor with Anders Wivel and Kai He), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024, forthcoming.

, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2024.

Cover for The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, (Lead Editor and Contributor with Deborah Larson, Harold Trinkunas, Anders Wivel &, Ralf Emmers), New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Cover for International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Editor and Contributor with Anders Wivel), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, September, 2019.

Cover for India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea (Editor and Contributor with Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee), London: Routledge, 2019.

Cover for Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era听(New听Haven: Yale University Press, September, 2018).

, HighBridge, Prince Frederik, MD, 2018.

Cover for The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era听(Editor and Contributor), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, August, 2018.

South Asia Edition, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2019.

Cover for Accommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present and Future听(Editor and Contributor),听 Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,听March 2016.

Cover for Status in World Politics, Co-editor and Contributor with Deborah Larson and William Wohlforth (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Cover for The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World听(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press),听 2014. South Asia (Except Pakistan) Edition: New Delhi: Random House India, 2014. Pakistan Edition: Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2014,听, Kautilya Books, New Delhi, 2016.

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Cover for International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, (Editor & Contributor), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions, March 2012).

Cover for South Asia鈥檚 Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament 听(Editor & Contributor), Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010 (South Asia Edition,听, New Delhi, 2011).

Cover for Globalization and the National Security State听(with Norrin Ripsman), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010.
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Cover for Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age听(Co-editor and Contributor with Patrick M. Morgan and James J. Wirtz), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009 (South Asia Edition,听, New Delhi, 2011).

Cover for The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons, Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009 (South Asia Edition, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2011).

Cover for The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry听(Editor & Contributor), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press (in paperback and hard cover editions, October 2005.
(, Fall 2006)

Cover for Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century听(Co-editor with James J. Wirtz and Michel Fortmann), Stanford: Stanford University Press, (in paperback and hardcover editions), September 2004.

Cover for The Nation-State in Question听(Co-editor and Contributor with G. John Ikenberry and John A. Hall), Princeton: Princeton University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions, 2003).

Cover for India in the World Order: Searching For Major Power Status听(with Baldev Raj Nayar), Cambridge, New York, Melbourne and New Delhi: Cambridge University Press 2003 (, 2005).

Cover for Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca: 平特五不中-Queen's University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions), 2000. (Selected as 'Outstanding Academic Title' for 2001 - Choice Magazine, January 2002, and as a 'Book for Understanding' by the American Association of University Presses)

Cover for International Order and the Future of World Politics听(Co-editor and contributor with John A. Hall). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999, 2000 (twice), 2001, 2002, 2003.

Cover for The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order听With Richard Harknett and James Wirtz. Ann Arbor: The University of Michig

Cover for Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker PowersCambridge: Cambridge University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 1994.

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Recent articles and chapters

  • 2023: 鈥淭he Specter of Deglobalization,鈥� Current History, 122, no. 840 (January), 3-8.
  • 2022: 鈥淩ealism, Liberalism and Regional Order in East Asia: Toward a Hybrid Approach,鈥� Pacific Review, 35, no.1 (Fall), 1028-48.
  • 2022: 鈥淚ndia鈥檚 Role in South Asia; A Regional Power with Global Ambitions,鈥� in David Shambaugh ed., International Relations of Asia, 3rdnd edn.,听(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp.161-186.
  • 2022: 鈥淏uilding an Eclectic and Inclusive Global IR: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st 颁别苍迟耻谤测,鈥� Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations 12 (13),听Jan-Feb, 38-45.
  • 2021: 鈥淕lobalization, De-globalization and Re-Globalization: Adapting Liberal International听Order,鈥� International Affairs, 97(5), Fall, 1599-1620.
  • 2021: 鈥淚ntroduction: Globalization, De-globalization and the Liberal International Order,鈥澨�International Affairs, 97(5), Fall (with Markus Kornpbrobst), 1305-16.
  • 2021: 鈥淭he Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics,鈥� in Paul, Et. Al. eds. The Oxford听Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 3-27.
  • 2021: 鈥淎 New Research Agenda for the Study of Peaceful Change鈥� (co-author) in Paul et al eds.听The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp.763-78.
  • 2020: 鈥淚ntroduction: International Institutions and Peaceful Change,鈥� (with Kai He and Anders听Wivel, Ethics and International Affairs, Winter, 34 (4), 457-59.
  • 2020: 鈥淪oft Balancing, Institutions and Peaceful Change鈥� (with Anders Wivel), Ethics and听International Affairs, Winter, 34 (4), 473-85.
  • 2020: 鈥淐hina鈥檚 Rise and Balance of Power Politics,鈥� The Chinese Journal of International听Politics (with Zhen Han),13(1), 1-26.
  • 2020: 鈥淭he Rise of China and the Emerging Order in the Indo-Pacific Region,鈥� in Huiyun Feng and Kai He, eds. China鈥檚 Challenges and International Order Transition:听Beyond the Thucydides Trap (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
  • 2019: 鈥淭heorizing India--US--China Strategic Triangle鈥� (with Erik Underwood), India Review, Fall, forthcoming.
  • 2019: 鈥淓xploring International Institutions and Power Politics,鈥� (with Anders Wivel) in Wivel and Paul eds. International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the听Divide (Georgetown University Press), pp.3-19.
  • 2019: 鈥淢aximizing Security through International Institutions: Soft Balancing Strategies Reconsidered,鈥� (with Anders Wivel) in Wivel and Paul eds. International听Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Georgetown University Press), pp. 89-100.
  • 2019: 鈥淢itigating Security Dilemma in the Sino-Indian Rivalry,鈥� in Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, and T.V. Paul eds. India-China Maritime Competition: The Security听Dilemma at Sea(London: Routledge), pp.182-87.
  • 2019: 鈥淭he Indian Ocean and the India-China Security Dilemma鈥�, with Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, in Basrur, Mukherjee, Paul eds. India-China Maritime Competition:听The Security Dilemma at Sea(London: Routledge), pp.1-9.
  • 2019: 鈥淲hen Balance of Power Meets Globalization: China, India and the Small States of South Asia,鈥� Politics, 39(1), pp. 50-63.
  • 2019: 鈥淩evisiting the Security Dilemma through the Lens of India-China Relations鈥� (with Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee), Asian Security, 15(1); pp.1-4.
  • 鈥�2018: 鈥淓xplaining Conflict and Cooperation in the Sino-Indian Rivalry,鈥� in Paul ed., China-India.听Rivalry in the Globalization Era听(Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp.3-26.
  • 2018: 鈥淎ssessing Change in World Politics,鈥� International Studies Review, forthcoming, 2018.
  • 2017: 鈥淩ecasting Statecraft: International Relations and Strategies of Peaceful Change,鈥澨�International Studies Quarterly, 61(1), March, 1-13.
  • 2016: "Nuclear Doctrines and Stable Strategic Relationships: The Case of South Asia" with Mahesh Shankar,听International Affairs, 92(1); pp.1-20.
  • 2016: 鈥淪elf-Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons and the Enduring Credibility Challenge,鈥澨齀nternational Journal, 71(1): pp. 2-40.
  • 2016: 鈥淭he Accommodation of Rising Powers in World Politics,鈥� in Paul ed.,听Accommodating Rising Powers听(Cambridge University Press), pp.3-32.
  • 2016: 鈥淣uclear Abolition: Strategic Context and Constraints,鈥� in Nik Hynek and Michal Smetana eds.听Global听Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives听(London: Routledge), 15-30.
  • 2014: 鈥淪trategies for Managing China鈥檚 Rise,鈥� Harvard Asia Quarterly, 16(2), Summer, 2014, 11-18.
  • 2014: 鈥淚ndia鈥檚 Soft Power in a Globalizing World,鈥澨鼵urrent History,听 113(762) April, 157-62.
  • 2014: 鈥淚ndia鈥檚 Role in Asia: A Rising Regional Power,鈥� in David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda eds., International Relations of Asia 2nd edn., (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).
  • 2014: 鈥淪tatus and World Order鈥� with Deborah Larson and William Wohlforth in Status in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-31.
  • 2014: 鈥淪tatus Accommodation through Institutional Means: India鈥檚 Rise and the Global Order鈥� with Mahesh Shankar in Status in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 165-191.
  • 2012: 鈥淩egional Transformation in International Relations鈥� in Paul ed., International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, Cambridge University Press,听pp. 3-21.
  • 2011: 鈥淒isarmament Revisited: Is Nuclear Abolition Possible?鈥澨齁ournal of Strategic Studies,听听Vol. 35, No. 1,听February,听 pp. 149-169.
  • 2011: 鈥淚mpact of Climatic Change on Indian Security: The Role of State Capacity,鈥� in听听Daniel Moran ed.,听Climate Change and National Security: A Country-level Analysis,听听Washington DC; Georgetown University Press, 听pp. 73-84.
  • 2010: 鈥淭aboo or Tradition: The Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics,鈥� Review of International Studies, 6, October, pp. 853-863.
  • 2010: 鈥淪tate Capacity and South Asia鈥檚 Perennial Insecurity Problems,鈥� in Paul ed., South Asia鈥檚 Weak States: Understanding Regional Insecurity, Stanford University Press, pp. 3-27.
  • 2010: 鈥淭ransforming South Asia: Is a Pluralistic Security Community Feasible? With Theodore McLauchlin in Paul ed., South Asia鈥檚 Weak States: Understanding Regional Insecurity, Stanford University Press, pp. 293-311.
  • 2010: 鈥淚ntegrating International Relations Studies in India to Global Scholarship,鈥� International Studies, 46 (1-2), 129-45.
  • 2010: 鈥淔oreign Policy Making in India: Looking for Theoretical Explanations,鈥� With Mahesh Shankar, in Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob, eds., Shaping India's Foreign Policy: People, Politics and Places, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publishers, 46-77.
  • 2009: 鈥淐omplex Deterrence: An Introduction,鈥� in Paul, Morgan, Wirtz eds., Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age, University of Chicago Press, Press, pp. 1-27.
  • 2009: 鈥淒eterrence among Great Powers in an Era of Globalization,鈥� in Paul, Morgan, Wirtz eds., Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age, University of Chicago Press, pp. 259-76.
  • 2007: "Why the US-India Nuclear Accord is a Good Deal," (with Mahesh Shankar) Survival 49 (4), Winter:111-22.
  • 2007: "The US.-India Nuclear Accord: Implications for the Non-Proliferation Regime," International Journal, Autumn, 2007: 845-61.
  • 2006: 鈥淲hy Has the India-Pakistan Rivalry Been So Enduring? Power Asymmetry and an Intractable Conflict,鈥� Security Studies, 15(4) October-December, 600-630.
  • 2005: 鈥淪oft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy,鈥� International Security, 30(1) Summer, pp. 46-71.
  • 2005: 鈥淕lobalization and the National Security State: A Framework for Analysis,鈥� (with Norrin Ripsman) International Studies Review, 7(2) June, pp.199-227.
  • 2005: 鈥淭he Causes of the India-Pakistan Rivalry,鈥� in Paul, ed., The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, Cambridge University Press, pp.3-24.
  • 2005: 鈥淪outh Asia鈥檚 Embedded Conflict: Understanding the India-Pakistan Rivalry鈥� (with William Hogg), in Paul, ed., The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, Cambridge University Press, pp.251-266.
  • 2005: 鈥淭he Risk of Nuclear War Does not Belong to History鈥� in Raimo Vayrynen, ed., The Waning of Major War: London: Frank Cass, pp.113-132.
  • 2005: 鈥淭he National Security State and Global Terrorism: Why the State is Not Prepared for the New Kind of War,鈥� in Ersel Aydinli and James N. Rosenau eds. Globalization, Security and the Nation-State, Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 49-64.
  • 2004: 鈥淯nder Pressure? Globalization and the National Security State,鈥� Millennium, 33 (2), December, 355-380.
  • 2004: 鈥淭he Causes and Consequences of China-Pakistan Nuclear/Missile Collaboration,鈥� in Lowell Dittmer ed., South Asia鈥檚 Nuclear Dilemma, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 175-88.
  • 2004: 鈥淭he Enduring Axioms of Balance of Power Theory,鈥� in Paul, Wirtz and Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, pp.1-25.
  • 2004: 鈥淏alance of Power at the Turn of the New 颁别苍迟耻谤测,鈥� (With Fortmann and Wirtz), in Paul, Wirtz and Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, pp. 360-74.
  • 2003: 鈥淐hinese/Pakistani Nuclear/Missile Ties and Balance of Power Politics,鈥� The Nonproliferation Review, 10 (2), Summer, 1-9.
  • 2003: "States, Security Function and Global Social Forces," in Paul, Ikenberry, and Hall eds., The Nation-State in Question (Princeton University Press), 139-165.
  • 2003: "Systemic Conditions and Security Cooperation: Explaining the Persistence of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 16(1), April 2003:135-55.
  • 2002: "India, the International System and Nuclear Weapons," in Damodar Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas eds. Nuclear India in the 21st Century, New York: Palgrave (St. Martins and Macmillan) Publishers, 85-104.
  • 1999: "Great Equalizers or Agents of Chaos? Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Emerging International Order," in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 373-92.
  • 1999: "Preconditions for Prudence: A Sociological Synthesis of Realism and Liberalism," (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 67-77.
  • 1999: "Introduction" (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1-15.
  • 1999: "The State and the Future of World Politics," (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 395-408.
  • 1998: "The Systemic Bases of India's Challenge to the Global Nuclear Order," Non-Proliferation Review, Fall:1-11.
  • 1998: "Power, Influence, and Nuclear Weapons: A Reassessment," in The Absolute Weapon Revisited, The University of Michigan Press, 19-46.
  • 1998: (With Richard Harknett and James Wirtz) "Understanding Nuclear Weapons in a Transforming World," in The Absolute Weapon Revisited, The University of Michigan Press, 1-15.
  • 1998: "The NPT and Power Transitions in the International System," in Raju Thomas ed., The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the 21st Century, Houndmills & New York: Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 59-77.
  • 1997: "Nuclear Proliferation and Enduring Regional Conflicts," in Jaeshik Sohn ed., Peace Strategies for Global Community in the 21st Century, Seoul: Kyung Hee University Press, 703-716.
  • 1996: "Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime: The Role of Coercive Sanctions," International Journal, 51(3) Summer:440-65.
  • 1995: "Nuclear Taboo and War Initiation: Nuclear Weapons in Regional Conflicts," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39(4), December, 696-717.
  • 1995: "The Paradox of Power: Nuclear Weapons in a Changed World," Alternatives, 20(4), November, 479-500.
  • 1995: "Time Pressure and War Initiation: Some Linkages," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 27(2) June, 255-76.
  • 1992: "Influence through Arms Transfers: Lessons from the US-Pakistani Relationship," Asian Survey, 32(12) December, 1078-92.

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Special Journal Issues

  • 2021: ,鈥� 97(5), Fall (co-editor with Markus Kornpbrobst).
  • 2020: , Winter, Special Section on 鈥淚nternational Institutions and听Peaceful Change,鈥� 34 (4) (co-editor with Kai He and Anders Wivel).
  • 2019: , Spring, special Issue on 鈥淐hina-India Naval Competition,鈥� (co-editor with听Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee).
  • 2018: , 20(2, June 2018- on Understanding Change in World Politics听(ISA Presidential Issue- Co-editor with J. Andrew Grant).

Select Media Appearances, Interviews, and Blogs

  • Conversations on Peaceful Change听-- An interview Series with Leading IR scholars by T.V. Paul, Founding Director of GRENPEC
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  • Pakistan and Its Military.
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  • 平特五不中 Launch of the book: The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World.
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  • Gulf Today Newspaper Report on Seminar at Gulf Research Center, Dubai (February 12, 2008).
  • Opinion Page on India Today Magazine on Kashmir (December 18, 2006).
Courses: 

POLI 671听International Relations Theory
Syllabus: POLI 671 Winter 2025 [.pdf]

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