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Harsh V Pant

Professor Harsh V Pant

Visiting Professor

Research interests

  • Conflict
  • International relations
  • Security

Contact details

Biography

Professor Harsh V Pant is a Visiting Professor at the King's India Institute. He is Director, Studies and Head of the Strategic Studies Programme at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University.

Harsh has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; a visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; a visiting scholar at the Center for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University; a visiting professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; a visiting professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; and an emerging leaders fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne.

His current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India’s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge), and India’s Afghan Muddle (HarperCollins).

Professor Pant writes regularly for various Indian and international media outlets including the Japan Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National (UAE), the Hindustan Times, and the Telegraph.

Research

  • International relations theory
  • Security studies
  • Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
  • Asia-Pacific security
  • South Asian politics

Further details

See Harsh's research profile

    Research

    Global India European Training Network

    Global India is a Horizon 2020 funded, Marie Curie European Training Network providing integrated training in research and transferable skills to PhD students

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    Lines in the Hills: Indo-Chinese Rivalry in the Himalayas

    Following a clash at the Himalayan border in mid-June – the most violent confrontation between India and China in decades – the King’s India Institute and Lau...

    A village in the Indian Himalayas

    Events

    24Febindia-globe

    Indo-Pacific webinar series: 'India in the Indo-Pacific – a Foreign Policy Reoriented'

    A presentation on the topic by Professor Harsh V Pant, organised as part of the Indo-Pacific Research group webinar series

    Please note: this event has passed.

    01FebIndia on the globe

    India as a Strategic Actor in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from US, UK, Europe and Russia

    The panel discussion is a part of King’s India Institute's special session series, India in the Indo-Pacific.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    07JulIndia-China Flag

    Lines in the hills: Indo-Chinese rivalry in the Himalayas

    Join us for this discussion on the tension between India and China on the Himalayan border and how this effects Indo-Chinese relations.

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      Global India European Training Network

      Global India is a Horizon 2020 funded, Marie Curie European Training Network providing integrated training in research and transferable skills to PhD students

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      Lines in the Hills: Indo-Chinese Rivalry in the Himalayas

      Following a clash at the Himalayan border in mid-June – the most violent confrontation between India and China in decades – the King’s India Institute and Lau...

      A village in the Indian Himalayas

      Events

      24Febindia-globe

      Indo-Pacific webinar series: 'India in the Indo-Pacific – a Foreign Policy Reoriented'

      A presentation on the topic by Professor Harsh V Pant, organised as part of the Indo-Pacific Research group webinar series

      Please note: this event has passed.

      01FebIndia on the globe

      India as a Strategic Actor in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from US, UK, Europe and Russia

      The panel discussion is a part of King’s India Institute's special session series, India in the Indo-Pacific.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      07JulIndia-China Flag

      Lines in the hills: Indo-Chinese rivalry in the Himalayas

      Join us for this discussion on the tension between India and China on the Himalayan border and how this effects Indo-Chinese relations.

      Please note: this event has passed.