Rate My Professor Sumit Ganguly

A specialist on the contemporary politics of South Asia, Ganguly's research interests include international relations and world politics, comparative politics of South Asia and Southeast Asia, ethnopolitics, South Asian regional security, nuclear strategy and arms control, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books on the region. Key publications include Oxford Short Introduction to Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015), Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Ascending India and Its State Capacity (with William R. Thompson, Yale University Press, 2017), and The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security (co-edited with Nicolas Blarel and Manjeet Pardesi, Oxford University Press, 2018). He is currently completing a book on the origins and evolution of India’s defense policy for Columbia University Press. Ganguly serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Studies Review and on the editorial boards of Asian Security, Current History, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, The India Review, The Nonproliferation Review, Pacific Affairs, and Security Studies. His honors include being a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.