Books

For reviews of T.V. Paul’s books, click here. T.V. Paul is also the series editor of the South Asia in World Affairs book series.

The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
In The Unfinished Quest, T.V. Paul charts India’s checkered path toward higher regional and global status, and sheds important light on its significance as the “swing power” that can mitigate China’s aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region.

International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Editor and Contributor with Anders Wivel) Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, September, 2019.

Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations (Lead Editor and Contributor with Deborah Welch Larson, Harold Trinkunas,  Anders Wivel &, Ralf Emmers), New York: Oxford University Press, August 2021.

India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea(Editor and Contributor with Rajesh Basrur and Anit Mukherjee, London: Routledge, 2019).

Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, September, 2018).

Audio CD version, HighBridge, Prince Frederik, MD, 2018.
Chinese Translation (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, By Liu Feng),  2020.
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The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era (Editor and Contributor), Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, August, 2018.

South Asia Edition, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2019.

 



Accommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present and Future (Editor and Contributor), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, March 2016.

 

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Status in World Politics (co-editor and contributor with Deborah Larson and William Wohlforth), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2014.

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The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World  (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
South Asia Edition (except Pakistan), New Delhi: Random House India, 2014
Pakistan Edition, Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2014
Malayalam Translation, Calicut: Olive Publications, 2015
Warrior State: Hindi Translation, New Delhi: Kautilya Publications, 2016

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International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament (Editor & Contributor), Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010.
South Asia Edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011.
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Globalization and the National Security State (with Norrin Ripsman), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2010.
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Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age (Co-editor and Contributor with Patrick M. Morgan and James J. Wirtz), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009

South Asia edition(South Asia Edition, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2011).

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The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons, Stanford: Stanford University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 2009
South Asia Edition, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2011)
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The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry (Editor & Contributor), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in paperback and hard cover editions) 2005.
India edition Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Co-editor with James J. Wirtz and Michel Fortmann), Stanford: Stanford University Press, (in paperback and hardcover editions), September 2004.
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The Nation-State in Question (Co-editor and Contributor with G. John Ikenberry and John A. Hall), Princeton: Princeton University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions, 2003).
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India in the World Order: Searching For Major Power Status (with Baldev Raj Nayar), Cambridge University Press, 2003
India edition (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
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Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press (in paperback and hardcover editions), 2000. (Selected as ‘Outstanding Academic Title’ for 2001 – Choice Magazine, January 2002, and as a ‘Book for Understanding’ by the American Association of University Presses)
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International Order and the Future of World Politics. (Co-editor and contributor with John A. Hall). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999, 2000 (twice), 2001, 2002, 2003.
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The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order. With Richard Harknett and James Wirtz. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. (paperback edition, 2000)
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Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in hardcover and paperback editions), 1994.
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Book Series on South Asia in World Affairs (Series Editor)

 

Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War Vying for Allah’s Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge
The Engagement of India: Strategies and Choices Globalization and India’s Economic Integration India’s Rise as an Asian Power
   
Indian Ocean and Grand strategy The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era  India and Nuclear Asia: Forces, Doctrine, and Dangers 
Pakistan’s Political Parties Subcontinental Drift Pakistan’s Pathway to the Bomb
Surviving Between Dictatorship and Democracy Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

 

 

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