Kanti Bajpai joins the Department of International Relations

Prof. Kanti Bajpai is a distinguished scholar of international relations with extensive teaching and research experience. He previously taught at the National University of Singapore, Oxford University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda. He has also held visiting appointments at institutions such as the Brookings Institution (Washington DC), the Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra), and the Institute for Defence and Strategic Analyses (New Delhi).

Prof. Bajpai is the author of India Versus China: Why They are Not Friends (2021), The Roots of Terrorism (2002), and Brasstacks and Beyond: Perception and Management of Crisis (1995). His recent edited volumes include How Realist is India’s Security Policy? (2023) and the co-edited Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2021), with a second edition forthcoming. He is currently writing a book on India’s national security.

Prof. Bajpai received the K. Subrahmanyam Award for Excellence in Research in Strategic and Security Studies (2012) and the Qimpro Platinum Standard in Education (2017). In 2010, he was Distinguished Fellow at IDSA. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1990. In July 2025, he became Emeritus Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

For inquiries, he can be reached at kanti.bajpai@ashoka.edu.