Chair
Prof. Varun Sahni
Professor of International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

About:
Varun Sahni is Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has written 92 research articles on nuclear deterrence issues, regional security, emerging balances in the Asia-Pacific, evolving security concepts, emerging powers, international relations theory, Latin American issues, and river waters. An Inlaks Scholar, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the political role of the Argentine Navy at the University of Oxford (1991). He has been visiting professor at important universities in Mexico City, Washington, DC and Canberra. For his “outstanding contribution to research and teaching”, he was conferred the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize in Social Sciences for 2006 by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.He has been a Jury Member of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.

Lead Speaker
Prof. Amitav Acharya
Distinguished Professor, SIS - Global Inquiry, American University

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Professor Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously he was a Professor at York University, Toronto and the University of Bristol, U.K. He is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Fellow of Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at Oxford. He is the first non-Western scholar to be elected (for 2014-15) the President of the International Studies Association (ISA), the largest and most influential global network in international studies.

Discussant
Dr. Atul Mishra
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University

About:
Atul Mishra is an associate professor of International Relations at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India. His areas of research include Indian foreign policy, modern Indian international thought, international relations of South Asia, and the politics and strategy of the democracies in contemporary international affairs. His papers have been published in International Affairs, India Review, The Economic and Political Weekly, Studies in Indian Politics, International Studies, South Asian Survey, and Strategic Analysis. He is the co-author (with Rajesh Rajagopalan) of Nuclear South Asia: Keywords and Concepts (Oxon and New Delhi: Routledge, 2014) and of The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021). He has also written commentaries for The Hindu, The Indian Express, and Dawn among others, and is currently a columnist for The Hindustan Times.

Discussant
Prof. Siddharth Mallavarapu,
Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University

About:
Siddharth Mallavarapu is Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. His research centres on the politics of knowledge, intersections of international relations and international law, curiosities surrounding the incomplete decolonization of knowledge forms, and how developments in the sphere of cognition studies and the behavioural sciences may carry implications for our foundational premises in the social sciences. He has published in the journal Global Constitutionalism and assorted Handbooks and other reputed university presses on topics such as Indian thinking in international relations, Gandhian intuitions on security, imperialism, international law and war and what we can learn from the Mexican Nobel laureate in Literature, Octavio Paz about international relations. He is the author of Banning the Bomb: The Politics of Norm Creation published by Pearson Longman as well as two anthologies on International Relations in India co-edited with Kanti Bajpai.

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