T.V. Paul Named Recipient of the 2025 Kim Dae-jung Award

The IPSA Committee on Organization, Procedures, and Awards (COPA) is pleased to announce that T.V. Paul (McGill University) has been selected as the recipient of IPSA’s newly established Kim Dae-jung Award. In recognition of this honor, Prof. Paul will participate in the Kim Dae-jung Award Roundtable at the 2025 IPSA World Congress of Political Science on 14 July 2025. The focus of the roundtable will be on global peace, democracy, and human rights.

The Kim Dae-jung Award 

The Kim Dae-jung Award was established to honor the legacy of Kim Dae-jung, the 15th President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from 1998 to 2003 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2000. A revered democratic philosopher-statesman, as well as the author of the 30-volume Kim Dae-jung Works, he is celebrated for translating his democratic philosophies and ideas into concrete policies that benefited both Korea and the world during his presidency. Sponsored by the Kim Dae-Jung Foundation, it is awarded at the IPSA World Congress to honor a scholar of high international reputation in recognition of their academic contribution to global peace, democracy, and human rights. 

T.V. Paul 

T.V. Paul is Distinguished James McGill Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montréal, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2016 to 2017, and is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). Prof. Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of five special journal issues, and author of over 90 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia. 

His books include The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, 2024); Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013); Globalization and the National Security State (with N. Ripsman, Oxford University Press, 2010); The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2009); India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (with B.R. Nayar Cambridge University Press, 2002); Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000); and Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Prof. Paul is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021) and currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series: South Asia in World Affairs. He is the recipient of the 2024 International Studies Association (ISA)-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2025 International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award.