Visiting Professor
The 2006-07 Visiting Professor is B.M. Jain, Professor and Senior Research Scientist in Political Science at the South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in India. In addition, he is an Honorable Academician and Research Professor at the International Noble Academy, Toronto, Canada and a member of the International Advisory Council, The Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and was featured in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (New Providence, New Jersey, U.S.A., 16th edition 1999 and 18th edition 2001).
He is the author of Globalized International Politics; Transition and Chang; India's Defence and Security, Nuclear Politics in South Asia: In Search of an Alternative Paradigm, and South Asian Security. Pacific Affairs (British Columbia University), and over one dozen articles in the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (New York: Scribners, 2002); Encyclopedia of Developing World, New York: Routledge, 2006; Air Power: An International Encyclopedia (Vol.1, Denver: ABC-CLIO; Cambridge, England 2002, and five entries in Historical Encyclopedia of Sino-US Relations (New York, forthcoming, 2006) Dr Jain the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Asian Affairs and sits on the Editorial Board of Inter-Cultural Studies (University of Newcastle, Callaghan, and Australia). He was Convener of a research panel at the 28 International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 2004: Convener, International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) Conference at Taipei, December 2005.
Professor Jain will teach AAAS 280J India-South Asia: New World Order and AAAS 380K Indo-US Relations in the Fall 2006 semester.
