The Unfinished Quest

India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
T.V. Paul

• Offers a comprehensive understanding of the rising power phenomenon in the globalized yet changing world order
• Focuses on the status motivation of India in the context of the US-China rivalry as well as India’s importance as the “swing power” that can mitigate China’s aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region
• Explores the ways in which status competition has entrenched the China-India and India-Pakistan rivalries
• Argues that the key challenge for obtaining a sustained global status is India’s low human development indices

2024
May 9: King’s College, London
May 8: London School of Economics
May 7: Cambridge University
May 2: Diplomatic Academy, Vienna
April 22: University of Toronto
April 2: University of California, Berkeley
May 16: Interview With McGill Arts Newsletter
June 16: Commonwealth Club World Affairs, San Francisco
May 22: Taipei School of Economics and Political Science
July 22: Heidelberg University
August 22: Stimson Center, Washington DC
September 6: University of Ottawa
September 25: Canadian International Council, Victoria, BC
September 26: University of British Columbia
October 8: Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia
October 25: McGill University
Dec 10: School of international Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dec 10: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.
Dec 11: India international Center, New Delhi.
Dec 15: Bangalore Literature Festival.
Dec 18: Peninsula Foundation and Madras University.
Dec 19: MG University, Kottayam, Kerala.

OUP Podcast, April 20024
“Beyond the Headlines:  India Unveiled” CIUT 89.5 Radio, Toronto  -> open.spotify.com
Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Seminar Presentation, May 2, 2024
Interview with Professor Sarwar Kashmeri, Polaris-Live, May 14, 2024
Interview with Pat Williams, Orlando WORLD FM 94.9, May 15, 2024 (mp3)
August 22, 2024, Stimson Center, Washington DC
The Hindu, Interview with Varghese K George, December 23, 2024
School of International Studies, JNU, Presentation, December 10, 2024
Bangalore Literature Festival; Interview with Liz Mathew,  December 15, 2024

OUP Blog, April 15, 2024
Asia-Pacific Foundation, March 24, 2024
Interview With McGill Arts Newsletter, May 16, 2024
Interview with Liz Mathews, Bangalore Literature Festival, December 15, 2024
The Print, Interview with Keshav Padbhanaman, December 16, 2024
Indian Express, Interview with Shubhajit Roy, December 28, 2024
The Hindu, Interview with Varghese K George, December 23, 2024
International Affairs, Top 10 Books in International Affairs, Chatham Huse, London, December 12, 2024

India Currents, June 5, 2024
CNN Report, June 8, 2024
Foreign Policy, June 19, 2024
The Geopolitics, July 10, 2024
Policy, August 4, 2024
“Instructive and Stimulating”–Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2024.
Suhasini Haider, The Hindu, January 2, 2025
Prem Singh Gill, International Journal of Asian Studies, 10 December 2024
Nikhil Godbole, Journal Asian Security and International Affairs, November 24, 2024
The Scroll,  December 20, 2024
The Print,  December 16, 2024
Money Control, November 25, 2024
Ian Hall, International Affairs, 6, 2024