2025 Kim Dae-jung Award Recipient | T.V. Paul
Roundtable Description TBC
Roundtable Participants
- Prof. Ajin Choi (Chair)
- Prof. T.V. Paul, Award Recipient
- Prof. Euiyoung Kim, Korean Political Science Association (KPSA)
- Dr. Haksoon Paik, Kim Dae-jung Foundation
- Prof. Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Chair of RC26 - Human Rights
- Dr. Oscar Perez de la Fuente, Vice-Chair of RC26 - Human Rights
Biography
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.
