Dr Manjeet Pardesi

Biography

Manjeet S. Pardesi is a Lecturer in International Relations and an Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB). His dissertation work focused on the initiation of strategic rivalries and their escalation to war. His research interests include causes of war, theories of foreign policymaking, the rise and fall of great powers, international relations in world history, Asian security, and Indian foreign/security policy. He was an Editorial Assistant with International Studies Quarterly from 2009-2012. From 2006-2008 he worked as a Graduate Assistant at the Center on American and Global Security at IUB. He has an MS in Strategic Studies from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. After completing his MS, he worked as an Associate Research Fellow at IDSS where he focused on the institute's projects on the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and India. He has lectured, conducted tutorials, and led discussion groups of the Tri-Service Staff Course and the Command and Staff Course at the SAFTI Military Institute, Singapore, and at the Advanced Command and Staff Course (Joint), New Zealand Defence Force Command and Staff College. He is a co-editor of India’s Military Modernization: Challenges and Prospects (Oxford, 2014). His articles have appeared in the Air & Space Power Journal (USAF), The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, World Policy Journal, India Review, Asian Security, Defense and Security Analysis, and in several edited book volumes. He has also written commentaries on the RMA and India's foreign and security policy, which have appeared in The Straits Times (Singapore), The Korea Herald (South Korea), The Indian Express (India), Daily News & Analysis (India), The Times of India (India), and Asia Times Online.