Rohan Mukherjee

Publications

BOOKS

Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, August 2022).

EDITED BOOKS/JOURNAL ISSUES

“Indian Security Strategy in Thought and Practice,” India Review, 17:1 (March 2018) – with Devesh Kapur. Poised for Partnership: Deepening India-Japan Relations in the Asian Century (Oxford University Press, 2016) – with Anthony Yazaki.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

“Chaos as Opportunity: The United States and World Order in India’s Grand Strategy,” Contemporary Politics, 26:4 (Jun 2020), 420-38.

“Hedging in South Asia: Balancing Economic and Security Interests amid Sino-Indian Competition,” International Relations of the Asia Pacific, 19:3 (Sep 2019), 493-522 (with Darren J. Lim).

“Japan’s Strategic Outreach to India and the Prospects of a Japan-India Alliance,” International Affairs, 94:4 (Jul 2018), 835-59.

“Pragmatism in Indian Strategic Thought: Evidence from the Nuclear Weapons Debate of the 1960s,” India Review, 17:1 (Mar 2018), 12-32 (with Rahul Sagar).

“What Money Can’t Buy: The Security Externalities of China’s Economic Statecraft in Post-War Sri Lanka,” Asian Security, 15:2 (Dec 2017), 73-92 (with Darren J. Lim).

“The False Promise of India’s Soft Power,” Geopolitics, History, & International Relations, 6:1 (2014), 46-62.

“From High Ground to High Table: The Evolution of Indian Multilateralism,” Global Governance, 17:3, (Jul 2011), 311-29 (with David M. Malone).

“Indian Foreign Policy and Contemporary Security Challenges,” International Affairs, 87:1 (2011), 87-104 (with David M. Malone).

“India and China: Conflict and Cooperation,” Survival, 52:1 (Feb/Mar 2010), 137-58 (with David M. Malone).

“India-US Relations: The Shock of the New,” International Journal, LXIV:4 (Autumn 2009), 1057-74 (with David M. Malone).

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

“Leveraging Uncertainty: India’s Response to U.S.-China Competition,” in Ashley J. Tellis, Michael Wills, and Alison Szalwinski (eds.), Strategic Asia 2021-22: Navigating a Tumultuous World (Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2022).

“India-Pakistan Relations,” in Takashi Inoguchi (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy (London: SAGE Publications, 2019).

“Nuclear Ambiguity and International Status: India in the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament, 1962-69,” in Manu Bhagavan (ed.), India and the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

“Power and Indian Foreign Policy,” in Harsh V. Pant (ed.), New Directions in Indian Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“Polity, Security, and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India,” in T.V. Paul (ed.), South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament (Stanford University Press, 2010): 147-169 – with David M. Malone.

EDITOR-REVIEWED ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

“Strengthening Foreign Relations for Great Power Capabilities,” in Bibek Debroy, C. Raja Mohan, and Ashley Tellis (eds.), Grasping Greatness: Making India a Leading Power (New Delhi: Penguin India, forthcoming).

“Keeping China Out, the United States In, and Pakistan Down: India’s Strategy for the Indian Ocean Region,” Asia Policy, 16:3 (2021), 29-33.

“India and Japan’s Grand Bargain in the Context of China’s Rise,” in S. Kalyanaraman and Jo Inge Bekkevold (eds.), India’s Great Power Politics: Managing China’s Rise (New Delhi: Routledge, 2021).

“Climbing the Escalation Ladder: India and the Balakot Crisis,” Policy Roundtable, Texas National Security Review (Oct 2019).

“India’s International Development Program,” in Srinath Raghavan, David M. Malone and C. Raja Mohan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015): 173-87.

“Indian Multilateralism and the Global Human Rights Order,” in Doutje Lettinga and Lars van Troost (eds.), India, Foreign Policy and Human Rights (Amsterdam: Amnesty International, 2015): 47-54.

“Dilemmas of Sovereignty and Order: India and the UN Security Council,” in WPS Sidhu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Bruce Jones (eds.), Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Press, 2013): 157-76 – with David M. Malone.

SELECTED WEB ARTICLES

“Nonalignment’s long shadow: India and the Ukraine Crisis,” 9DashLine, Mar 15, 2022.

“Decentering ASEAN in the Quad’s Indo-Pacific Strategy,” 9DashLine, Apr 8, 2021.

“South Asia deftly navigates China-India tensions,” East Asia Forum, Mar 9, 2021.

“Unsafe Distancing: India and China Face Off Once Again,” China-India Brief, May 27, 2020.

“Rethinking U.S. Alliances and Partnerships as Insurance Contracts,” AsiaGlobal Online, University of Hong Kong, Feb 19, 2020.

“Two Cheers for the Liberal World Order: The International Order and Rising Powers in a Trumpian World,” H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series: America and the World, Feb 22, 2019.

“India is our brother, China is our friend”: Navigating great power rivalry in Southern Asia,” War on the Rocks, Sep 22, 2017 (with Darren J. Lim).

“The International Politics of Status,” India in Transition, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, Nov 2014.

SELECTED OP-EDS

“India can tackle the new world order,” Hindustan Times, Mar 29, 2022.

“India’s place in Quad hinges on its ability to counter China, not Covid,” Times of India, Jun 19, 2021.

“East by Southeast: Three challenges for India's 'Act East' policy,” Business Standard, Jan 23, 2018.

“The Indo Pacific, a security diamond, a 10-year Quad?” Channel NewsAsia, Nov 10, 2017.

“BRICS declaration: What China's stance on terrorism reflects,” Business Standard, Sep 11, 2017.

“Sikkim stand-off: What explains China's coercive diplomacy,” Business Standard, Jul 10, 2017.

Selected Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

Principal Investigator, Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 1 Grant, 2018-21

Book workshop grant, Yale-NUS College, 2018-19

Principal Investigator, Research Grant, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, 2014-16

Dissertation Grant, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University, 2014

Pre-Dissertation Grant, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2011-12

Research Fellowship, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University, 2010-12

Professional Development Award, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 2009-10

Fellowship, full tuition & stipend, School of Public & Int Affairs, Princeton University, 2006-07, 2008-09

HSBC Scholarship, full tuition, University of Oxford (first recipient from India), 2001-04

Selected Talks, Workshops, & Conferences

Talk: “Rising Powers and International Order,” Carnegie India, New Delhi, Sep 2022

Panel: “The Legacy and Impact of Shinzo Abe,” Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi, Jul 2022

Keynote: “Unpacking Identity, Security and Technology in South Asia,” King’s India Institute Graduate Conference, Jun 2022

Talk: “Is a Japan-India Alliance Possible?” 21st Century Japan Politics & Society Initiative, Indiana University, Feb 2022

Workshop: “The Cyber-Nuclear Nexus,” co-organized with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and the University of Leicester, Nov 2021

Workshop: “Towards a Postwestern International Relations,” ISA workshop, Mar 2021

Talk: “US-India Relations,” Australian National University, ANU India Update, Jan 2021

Convention: Annual meetings of the International Studies Association: 2013, 2014, 2016-2019

Talk: “The Indo-Pacific & the Quad: Exercises in Futility?” United Nations University, Tokyo, Oct 2019

Conference: Southeast Asian Young Leaders Program, IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore, May 2019

Workshop: “Regions in a Multipolar World,” The Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Sep 2018 Convention: Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2017

Panel: “Is the Indo-Pacific the right framework for engaging with the Asian century?” Annual AsiaPacific Deputy Head of Mission Conference, British High Commission, Singapore, Dec 2017

Panel: “Post-War U.S.-Japan Reconciliation: The Strategic Benefits of Healing,” symposium at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., Nov 2017

Talk: “India, the UN and Humanitarian Intervention,” Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Dec 2013

Courses Taught

Master’s level: International Relations: Core Theories and Debates, LSE, 2022 (3 sections)

Advanced seminar: India as a Rising Power, Yale-NUS College, 2017-19, 2022 (3 sections)

Intermediate seminar: Technology & International Security, Yale-NUS College, 2022 (1 section)

Introductory seminar: International Relations, Yale-NUS College, 2017-21 (6 sections)

Common Curriculum: Modern Social Thought, Yale-NUS College, 2016-20 (8 sections)

Assistant Instructor, Grand Strategy, Princeton University, 2014 (4 sections)

Assistant Instructor, Human Rights, Princeton University, 2013 (2 sections)

Guided Reading and Research Modules, Yale-NUS College: Identity and Nuclear Politics, 2022; The International Political Economy of Pakistan’s Fiscal Debt, 2021; Social Media and Civic Life in Contemporary India, 2021; International Law and Cyber Attacks in International Relations, 2019; China’s Economic Statecraft in Southeast Asia, 2018; Models of LGBT Activism in a Globalized Singapore, 2017

Lecturer, Social Science for a Globalized World, Yale University Summer Institute, 2019

PhD committee member, South Asian Studies Programme, NUS (1 student, 2021-present)

PhD committee member, Rajaratnam School (RSIS), NTU (1 student, 2020-present)

Senior thesis adviser, Yale-NUS College (15 students, 2016-2022)

Editorial

Reviewer for: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press'; Palgrave Macmillan; Routledge; Asian Perspective; Asian Security; China Quarterly; Chinese Journal of Int Politics; Contemporary Politics; Contemporary South Asia; Diplomacy & Statecraft; Diplomatica; India Review; Indian Politics & Policy; Int. J. of Transitional Justice; International Politics; International Relations; International Security; Journal of Defence Studies; Journal of Glob. Sec. Studies; Modern Asian Studies; Third World Quarterly