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
Indian Diplomacy Needs To Be In Top Gear Amid Iran-Israel Face-Off
Where the sea remains rough
India’s East Asia outreach shows its centrality to regional stability
NATO’s wins and woes: The organisation faces challenges across political, financial, and security domains
Name games Beijing plays with New Delhi
India’s Defence Exports: Continuing Defence Reforms is Critical
Ukraine's India Outreach, And The Search For New Friends
The India-Bhutan story: India understands the urgency and needs of its neighbour
10 Years Of Modi's Foreign Policy: Aspiration Meets Self-Assurance
Putin’s Victory a Challenge for Friends and Foes Alike
The MIRV leap that fires up India’s nuclear deterrence
Eastward Bound: Is an India-Japan-South Korea Trilateral in the Making?
China’s Man in Malé
China’s military ambitions
Muizzu's China Tilt Hurts Maldives Far More Than India
Mauritius deepens India’s naval reach
Pakistan-It's A Rocky Road Ahead For Shehbaz Sharif, Thanks To Imran
The quick transformation of Russia-North Korea ties
Is turbulent the new normal in Sino-Indian relations?
A lesson for India in the wars going on overseas