T.V. Paul

Distinguished James McGill Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, McGill University

T.V. Paul is Distinguished James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of the International Studies Association for 2016-17 and is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change.

Mr. Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of four special journal issues, and author of more than 85 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia. He is the author of the books: The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 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).

Mr. 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.