He has received three ISA Distinguished Scholar Awards: in 2015 for his "contribution to non-Western IR theory and inclusion” in international studies, in 2018 for his “influence, intellectual works and mentorship” in the field of international organization; and in 2023 for his “extraordinary impact” in globalizing the study of International Relations and “mentorship of emerging scholars”. He is also a recipient of American University’s highest honor: Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award (2020).
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.
About:
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.
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.
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.