Kanti Bajpai

Kanti Bajpai is Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Ashoka University. Before this, he taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (2011-2025), where he was the Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies. He has held several faculty positions, including Professor in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia, Oxford University (2009-2010), Professor and Associate Professor, Centre for International Politics, Organization, and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (1994-2003), and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda (1989-1991). He has also held visiting positions at Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Beyond university life, Kanti Bajpai was Resident Fellow of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in New Delhi, as well as a visiting fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace at Notre Dame University, the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra. In 2010, he was Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi. From 2003 to 2009, he was Headmaster, The Doon School. Over 25 years, he has been a regular commentator in the Indian press and electronic media.

Kanti Bajpai has taught courses in international relations theory, international security, Asian international and strategic thought, arms control and disarmament, and India’s foreign policy. His areas of research are Indian foreign policy and national security, South Asia, Asian international and strategic thought, and international security. Most recently, Kanti Bajpai has published How Realist is India’s National Security Policy (Routledge, 2023), India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends (Juggernaut, 2021), The Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020, with Manjari Chatterjee Miller and Selina Ho), and India, the West, and International Order (2019, with Siddharth Mallavarapu). He is currently working on a book on India’s national security.