T.V. Paul

Academic title(s): 

James McGill Professor

T.V. Paul
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Email address: 
t.paul [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 528
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award, 2024.
  • Honored with the establishment of T.V. Paul Best Book Award by the Global International Studies Section (GIRS) of International Studies Association (ISA), May 2023.
  • Brain Gain Distinguished Scholar, Kerala State Higher Education Council, January-February 2023.
  • Director (Founding), Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC), 2019—.
  • Fellow (Elected), Royal Society of Canada, September 2018.
  • James McGill Professor of international Relations.
  • President, International Studies Association (ISA), 2016-2017.
  • President-Elect, International Studies Association (ISA), 2015-2016.
  • Erudite Fellow, Kerala State Higher Education Council, India, January 2016.
  • Included in the A-List of 41 Most Influential Indo-Canadians and Friends of India, The Indian Diaspora, Toronto, January 2015.
  • Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecturer, Utah Council for Citizen  Diplomacy, March 2014.
  • The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professor (Visiting) of International Relations, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2014.
  • Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Distinguished Lecturer, Claremont-McKenna College, February 2014.
  • Team Leader, Globalization and the National Security State Project (Won 4 Consecutive Team Grants from FQRSC- 2002-2017).
  • Best Professor in International Relations, World Education Congress, Mumbai, June 2012.
  • Vice President (Elected), International Studies Association (ISA), 2013-2014.
  • KPS Menon Chair (Visiting) for Diplomatic Studies 2011-2012, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India.
  • Honorary Member, The Golden Key International Honour Society (September 2011-).
  • Interviewed in Conversations with History, A Television Interview Series with Leading Scholars and Practitioners, University of California, Berkeley, October 2009.
  • Distinguished Award in Arts and Letters, Indian American Kerala Center, New York, November 2009.
  • Book, The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons has been Selected for Inclusion in the Peace Prize Laureate Exhibition Honoring President Barack Obama by the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, November 2009.
  • Faculty of Arts 2005 Award for High Distinction in Research, McGill University.
  • James McGill Chair, 2003.
  • “Popular Professor,” Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities, 2005.
  • Peace Scholar Award, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., 1989.
Degree(s): 

PhD, UCLA

Curriculum vitae: 
Research areas: 
International Relations
Areas of interest: 
  • International Security
  • India/Rising Powers
  • International Relations Theory
  • War & Conflict
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Regional Security
  • Asia
  • Comparative Politics (South Asia)
Selected publications: 

Books

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The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), Spring 2024, forthcoming.


Cover for The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International RelationsThe Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, (Lead Editor and Contributor with Deborah Larson, Harold Trinkunas, Anders Wivel &, Ralf Emmers), New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.


Cover for International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Editor and Contributor with Anders Wivel), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, September, 2019.


Cover for India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at SeaIndia-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea (Editor and Contributor with Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee), London: Routledge, 2019.


Cover for Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global EraRestraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, September, 2018).

Audio CD version, HighBridge, Prince Frederik, MD, 2018.


Cover for The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization EraThe China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era (Editor and Contributor), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, August, 2018.

South Asia Edition, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2019.


Cover for Accommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present and FutureAccommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present and Future (Editor and Contributor),  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, March 2016.


Cover for Status in World PoliticsStatus in World Politics, Co-editor and Contributor with Deborah Larson and William Wohlforth (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).


Cover for The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary WorldThe Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press),  2014. South Asia (Except Pakistan) Edition: New Delhi: Random House India, 2014. Pakistan Edition: Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2014, Hindi edition, Kautilya Books, New Delhi, 2016.

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Cover for International Relations Theory and Regional TransformationInternational Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, (Editor & Contributor), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions, March 2012).


Cover for South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament (Editor & Contributor), Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010 (South Asia Edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011).


Cover for Globalization and the National Security StateGlobalization and the National Security State (with Norrin Ripsman), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010.
 


Cover for Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global AgeComplex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age (Co-editor and Contributor with Patrick M. Morgan and James J. Wirtz), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009 (South Asia Edition, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2011).


Cover for The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear WeaponsThe Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons, Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009 (South Asia Edition, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2011).


Cover for The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring RivalryThe India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry (Editor & Contributor), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press (in paperback and hard cover editions, October 2005.
(India Edition, Fall 2006)


Cover for Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st CenturyBalance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Co-editor with James J. Wirtz and Michel Fortmann), Stanford: Stanford University Press, (in paperback and hardcover editions), September 2004.


Cover for The Nation-State in QuestionThe Nation-State in Question (Co-editor and Contributor with G. John Ikenberry and John A. Hall), Princeton: Princeton University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions, 2003).


Cover for India in the World Order: Searching For Major Power StatusIndia in the World Order: Searching For Major Power Status (with Baldev Raj Nayar), Cambridge, New York, Melbourne and New Delhi: Cambridge University Press 2003 (India edition, 2005).


Cover for Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear WeaponsPower versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions), 2000. (Selected as 'Outstanding Academic Title' for 2001 - Choice Magazine, January 2002, and as a 'Book for Understanding' by the American Association of University Presses)


Cover for International Order and the Future of World PoliticsInternational Order and the Future of World Politics. (Co-editor and contributor with John A. Hall). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999, 2000 (twice), 2001, 2002, 2003.


Cover for The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International OrderThe Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order. With Richard Harknett and James Wirtz. Ann Arbor: The University of Michig


Cover for Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker PowersAsymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 1994.


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Recent articles and chapters

  • 2023: “The Specter of Deglobalization,” Current History, 122, no. 840 (January), 3-8.
  • 2022: “Realism, Liberalism and Regional Order in East Asia: Toward a Hybrid Approach,” Pacific Review, 35, no.1 (Fall), 1028-48.
  • 2022: “India’s Role in South Asia; A Regional Power with Global Ambitions,” in David Shambaugh ed., International Relations of Asia, 3rdnd edn., (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp.161-186.
  • 2022: “Building an Eclectic and Inclusive Global IR: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century,” Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations 12 (13), Jan-Feb, 38-45.
  • 2021: “Globalization, De-globalization and Re-Globalization: Adapting Liberal International Order,” International Affairs, 97(5), Fall, 1599-1620.
  • 2021: “Introduction: Globalization, De-globalization and the Liberal International Order,” International Affairs, 97(5), Fall (with Markus Kornpbrobst), 1305-16.
  • 2021: “The Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics,” in Paul, Et. Al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 3-27.
  • 2021: “A New Research Agenda for the Study of Peaceful Change” (co-author) in Paul et al eds. The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp.763-78.
  • 2020: “Introduction: International Institutions and Peaceful Change,” (with Kai He and Anders Wivel, Ethics and International Affairs, Winter, 34 (4), 457-59.
  • 2020: “Soft Balancing, Institutions and Peaceful Change” (with Anders Wivel), Ethics and International Affairs, Winter, 34 (4), 473-85.
  • 2020: “China’s Rise and Balance of Power Politics,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics (with Zhen Han),13(1), 1-26.
  • 2020: “The Rise of China and the Emerging Order in the Indo-Pacific Region,” in Huiyun Feng and Kai He, eds. China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the Thucydides Trap (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
  • 2019: “Theorizing India--US--China Strategic Triangle” (with Erik Underwood), India Review, Fall, forthcoming.
  • 2019: “Exploring International Institutions and Power Politics,” (with Anders Wivel) in Wivel and Paul eds. International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Georgetown University Press), pp.3-19.
  • 2019: “Maximizing Security through International Institutions: Soft Balancing Strategies Reconsidered,” (with Anders Wivel) in Wivel and Paul eds. International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Georgetown University Press), pp. 89-100.
  • 2019: “Mitigating Security Dilemma in the Sino-Indian Rivalry,” in Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, and T.V. Paul eds. India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea(London: Routledge), pp.182-87.
  • 2019: “The Indian Ocean and the India-China Security Dilemma”, with Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, in Basrur, Mukherjee, Paul eds. India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea(London: Routledge), pp.1-9.
  • 2019: “When Balance of Power Meets Globalization: China, India and the Small States of South Asia,” Politics, 39(1), pp. 50-63.
  • 2019: “Revisiting the Security Dilemma through the Lens of India-China Relations” (with Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee), Asian Security, 15(1); pp.1-4.
  • ​2018: “Explaining Conflict and Cooperation in the Sino-Indian Rivalry,” in Paul ed., China-India. Rivalry in the Globalization Era (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp.3-26.
  • 2018: “Assessing Change in World Politics,” International Studies Review, forthcoming, 2018.
  • 2017: “Recasting Statecraft: International Relations and Strategies of Peaceful Change,” International Studies Quarterly, 61(1), March, 1-13.
  • 2016: "Nuclear Doctrines and Stable Strategic Relationships: The Case of South Asia" with Mahesh Shankar, International Affairs, 92(1); pp.1-20.
  • 2016: “Self-Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons and the Enduring Credibility Challenge,” International Journal, 71(1): pp. 2-40.
  • 2016: “The Accommodation of Rising Powers in World Politics,” in Paul ed., Accommodating Rising Powers (Cambridge University Press), pp.3-32.
  • 2016: “Nuclear Abolition: Strategic Context and Constraints,” in Nik Hynek and Michal Smetana eds. Global Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives (London: Routledge), 15-30.
  • 2014: “Strategies for Managing China’s Rise,” Harvard Asia Quarterly, 16(2), Summer, 2014, 11-18.
  • 2014: “India’s Soft Power in a Globalizing World,” Current History,  113(762) April, 157-62.
  • 2014: “India’s Role in Asia: A Rising Regional Power,” in David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda eds., International Relations of Asia 2nd edn., (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).
  • 2014: “Status and World Order” with Deborah Larson and William Wohlforth in Status in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-31.
  • 2014: “Status Accommodation through Institutional Means: India’s Rise and the Global Order” with Mahesh Shankar in Status in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 165-191.
  • 2012: “Regional Transformation in International Relations” in Paul ed., International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-21.
  • 2011: “Disarmament Revisited: Is Nuclear Abolition Possible?” Journal of Strategic Studies,  Vol. 35, No. 1, February,  pp. 149-169.
  • 2011: “Impact of Climatic Change on Indian Security: The Role of State Capacity,” in  Daniel Moran ed., Climate Change and National Security: A Country-level Analysis,  Washington DC; Georgetown University Press,  pp. 73-84.
  • 2010: “Taboo or Tradition: The Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics,” Review of International Studies, 6, October, pp. 853-863.
  • 2010: “State Capacity and South Asia’s Perennial Insecurity Problems,” in Paul ed., South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding Regional Insecurity, Stanford University Press, pp. 3-27.
  • 2010: “Transforming South Asia: Is a Pluralistic Security Community Feasible? With Theodore McLauchlin in Paul ed., South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding Regional Insecurity, Stanford University Press, pp. 293-311.
  • 2010: “Integrating International Relations Studies in India to Global Scholarship,” International Studies, 46 (1-2), 129-45.
  • 2010: “Foreign Policy Making in India: Looking for Theoretical Explanations,” With Mahesh Shankar, in Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob, eds., Shaping India's Foreign Policy: People, Politics and Places, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publishers, 46-77.
  • 2009: “Complex Deterrence: An Introduction,” in Paul, Morgan, Wirtz eds., Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age, University of Chicago Press, Press, pp. 1-27.
  • 2009: “Deterrence among Great Powers in an Era of Globalization,” in Paul, Morgan, Wirtz eds., Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age, University of Chicago Press, pp. 259-76.
  • 2007: "Why the US-India Nuclear Accord is a Good Deal," (with Mahesh Shankar) Survival 49 (4), Winter:111-22.
  • 2007: "The US.-India Nuclear Accord: Implications for the Non-Proliferation Regime," International Journal, Autumn, 2007: 845-61.
  • 2006: “Why Has the India-Pakistan Rivalry Been So Enduring? Power Asymmetry and an Intractable Conflict,” Security Studies, 15(4) October-December, 600-630.
  • 2005: “Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy,” International Security, 30(1) Summer, pp. 46-71.
  • 2005: “Globalization and the National Security State: A Framework for Analysis,” (with Norrin Ripsman) International Studies Review, 7(2) June, pp.199-227.
  • 2005: “The Causes of the India-Pakistan Rivalry,” in Paul, ed., The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, Cambridge University Press, pp.3-24.
  • 2005: “South Asia’s Embedded Conflict: Understanding the India-Pakistan Rivalry” (with William Hogg), in Paul, ed., The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, Cambridge University Press, pp.251-266.
  • 2005: “The Risk of Nuclear War Does not Belong to History” in Raimo Vayrynen, ed., The Waning of Major War: London: Frank Cass, pp.113-132.
  • 2005: “The National Security State and Global Terrorism: Why the State is Not Prepared for the New Kind of War,” in Ersel Aydinli and James N. Rosenau eds. Globalization, Security and the Nation-State, Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 49-64.
  • 2004: “Under Pressure? Globalization and the National Security State,” Millennium, 33 (2), December, 355-380.
  • 2004: “The Causes and Consequences of China-Pakistan Nuclear/Missile Collaboration,” in Lowell Dittmer ed., South Asia’s Nuclear Dilemma, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 175-88.
  • 2004: “The Enduring Axioms of Balance of Power Theory,” in Paul, Wirtz and Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, pp.1-25.
  • 2004: “Balance of Power at the Turn of the New Century,” (With Fortmann and Wirtz), in Paul, Wirtz and Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, pp. 360-74.
  • 2003: “Chinese/Pakistani Nuclear/Missile Ties and Balance of Power Politics,” The Nonproliferation Review, 10 (2), Summer, 1-9.
  • 2003: "States, Security Function and Global Social Forces," in Paul, Ikenberry, and Hall eds., The Nation-State in Question (Princeton University Press), 139-165.
  • 2003: "Systemic Conditions and Security Cooperation: Explaining the Persistence of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 16(1), April 2003:135-55.
  • 2002: "India, the International System and Nuclear Weapons," in Damodar Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas eds. Nuclear India in the 21st Century, New York: Palgrave (St. Martins and Macmillan) Publishers, 85-104.
  • 1999: "Great Equalizers or Agents of Chaos? Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Emerging International Order," in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 373-92.
  • 1999: "Preconditions for Prudence: A Sociological Synthesis of Realism and Liberalism," (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 67-77.
  • 1999: "Introduction" (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1-15.
  • 1999: "The State and the Future of World Politics," (Co-authored with John A. Hall) in International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 395-408.
  • 1998: "The Systemic Bases of India's Challenge to the Global Nuclear Order," Non-Proliferation Review, Fall:1-11.
  • 1998: "Power, Influence, and Nuclear Weapons: A Reassessment," in The Absolute Weapon Revisited, The University of Michigan Press, 19-46.
  • 1998: (With Richard Harknett and James Wirtz) "Understanding Nuclear Weapons in a Transforming World," in The Absolute Weapon Revisited, The University of Michigan Press, 1-15.
  • 1998: "The NPT and Power Transitions in the International System," in Raju Thomas ed., The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the 21st Century, Houndmills & New York: Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 59-77.
  • 1997: "Nuclear Proliferation and Enduring Regional Conflicts," in Jaeshik Sohn ed., Peace Strategies for Global Community in the 21st Century, Seoul: Kyung Hee University Press, 703-716.
  • 1996: "Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime: The Role of Coercive Sanctions," International Journal, 51(3) Summer:440-65.
  • 1995: "Nuclear Taboo and War Initiation: Nuclear Weapons in Regional Conflicts," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39(4), December, 696-717.
  • 1995: "The Paradox of Power: Nuclear Weapons in a Changed World," Alternatives, 20(4), November, 479-500.
  • 1995: "Time Pressure and War Initiation: Some Linkages," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 27(2) June, 255-76.
  • 1992: "Influence through Arms Transfers: Lessons from the US-Pakistani Relationship," Asian Survey, 32(12) December, 1078-92.

 

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POLI 360 International Security: Strategies of War and Peace
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POLI 679 International Security: Conflict and Cooperation
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