Professor Harsh V. Pant is Vice President – Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute at King’s College London. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University.
Professor Pant has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; a Visiting Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University; a Non-Resident Fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; and an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne.
Professor Pant's current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include India and Global Governance: A Rising Power and Its Discontents (Routledge), Politics and Geopolitics: Decoding India’s Neighbourhood Challenge (Rupa), America and the Indo-Pacific: Trump and Beyond (Routledge), New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India’s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge), and India’s Afghan Muddle (HarperCollins).
Professor Pant writes regularly for various Indian and international media outlets including the Japan Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National (UAE), the Hindustan Times, and the Telegraph.
Commentaries
PM Hasina’s second India sojourn: Paving the future of New Delhi-Dhaka ties
From China tilt to a balancing with Beijing and Delhi
Modi-Hasina Should Worry About China, But Not Too Much
Apulia Onwards: An Era of Global South Interoperability
A Guarantee Of Continuity
Peace summit on weak footing
China in horizon, G7 eyes the Global South
Modi In Apulia: India Can Be The Bridge Between G7 And The Rest
India as a peacemaker at the Global Peace Summit?
Modi 3.0: What China, Pakistan And Maldives Can Expect
Ride the storm
China cloud over Taiwan: President Lai Ching-te starts term in the face of Beijing’s war drills
Rishi Sunak, UK's Accidental Prime Minister, Goes For Broke
Modi's push on hard power
The mirage of US-China detente
What does an emerging Squad in the Indo-Pacific mean for India?
India Can't Wish Away The Growing Russia-China Bonhomie
The risks of Russia’s nuclear posturing
Chabahar, port of a smart call
Xi and a tale of two Europes