Associate Professor of International Relations in the Political Science and International Relations Programme, and Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies | Victoria University of Wellington.
Manjeet S. Pardesi is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Political Science and International Relations Programme, and Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington.His research interests include Historical International Relations, Great Power Politics, Asian security, and the Sino-Indian rivalry.He has an MSc in Strategic Studies from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (now the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies or RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.He obtained his BEng (Electrical & Electronic) from NTU as well. He is the co-author of The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order(with Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Limits of Hegemony: Power, Ideas, and Order in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (with Amitav Acharya). His articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Survival, Global Studies Quarterly, 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. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security (Oxford, 2018) and India’s Military Modernization: Challenges and Prospects (Oxford, 2014). He is the Managing Editor of the journal Asian Security (since June 2018).