The Hoover Institution hosts Contemporary India: From Domestic Politics to Foreign Policy and Beyond on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, from 12:00 PM PT to 3:30 PM PT. This event will highlight the entire spectrum of India’s current politics and policies using the recently published Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics as its platform.
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics, edited by Sumit Ganguly and Eswaran Sridharan, covers key political institutions, major political parties, and processes such as elections and coalitions in India. It elaborates on critical identitarian issues such as secularism and minorities, caste, gender, and inter-state migration. It also examines issues related to political economy (including political finance), foreign policy, defense, and internal security issues, and brings together a diverse mix of contributors and themes pertaining to the study of Indian politics.
Speakers:
Dr. Šumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Šumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Director of the Huntington Program on Strengthening the US-India Relationship. He is the Tagore Chair of Indian Cultures and Civilizations Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books on the contemporary politics of South Asia. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Studies Review.
Dr. Jennifer Bussell, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Bussell is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Center on Contemporary India. Her research concerns the political economy of development, democratic politics, and governance. Her recent book, Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Modern South Asia Series, Oxford University Press), considers the provision of constituency service by high-level elected officials in India and elsewhere.
Dr. Arzan Tarapore, Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, (CISAC), Stanford University
Arzan Tarapore is a resreach scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. His research focuses on Indian military strategy and regional security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Prior to his scholarly career, he served for 13 years in the Australian Defence Department in various analytic, management, and liaison positions, including operational deployments and a diplomatic posting to the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC.
Dr. Philip Zelikow, Botha-Chan Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Philip Zelikow is the Botha-Chan Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. For 25 years he held a chaired professorship in history at the University of Virginia. For seven years before that, he was an associate professor at Harvard University. In his scholarship, Zelikow focuses on critical episodes in world history and the challenges of policy design and statecraft.
Moderator:
Dr. Larry Diamond, William L. Clayton Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He teaches courses on democracy and co-leads several projects, including the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and the Global Digital Policy Incubator.
