Varun Sahni joins the Department of International Relations

Professor Varun Sahni was till recently Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from where he took early retirement after 30 years of service. An Inlaks Scholar, he completed his doctoral thesis on the political role of the Argentine Navy at the University of Oxford (1991). His teaching and research span a wide range of areas including International Relations theory, nuclear deterrence, regional security, emerging balances in the Indo-Pacific, evolving security concepts, emerging powers, Latin American issues, foreign policy, maritime geopolitics, and river waters.

Over his career, Professor Sahni has authored 92 research articles on these themes and has held visiting professorships at universities in Mexico City, Washington, DC, and Canberra. He has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu (2008–12) and Goa University (2016–21). For his “outstanding contribution to research and teaching”, he was awarded the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize in Social Sciences (2006) by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He has also served as a Jury Member of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.

For inquiries, he can be reached at at varun.sahni@ashoka.edu.in .