India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
T.V. Paul
The Unfinished Quest
The Unfinished Quest
South Asia Edition, Westland-Context, October 2024
- 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
Book Events
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
Podcasts/Videos
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
Blogs/Writeups
OUP Blog, April 15, 2024
Asia-Pacific Foundation, March 24, 2024
Interview With McGill Arts Newsletter, May 16, 2024