Foreign Policy Discussion Group | Online

Topic

India's Great-Power Aspirations in Turbulent Times

Speaker

Devin T. Hagerty 

Devin T. Hagerty is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.  His areas of study are international relations, national security policy, nuclear weapons and deterrence, and South Asian politics.  

Prof. Hagerty has authored several books: Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Asia (MIT Press, 1998), and (co-authored) Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (University of Washington Press, 2005), as well as editing South Asia in World Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).  Hagerty also co-edits the journal Asian Security.  He is writing a book on the November 1979 burning of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Recommended Readings:
Ashley J. Tellis, “India’s Great-Power Delusions:  How New Delhi’s Grand Strategy Thwarts Its Grand Ambitions,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 4 (July/August 2025), pp. 52-67
 

Nirupama Rao, Dhruva Jaishankar, Lisa Curtis, and Ashley J. Tellis, “What Kind of Great Power Will India Be?  Debating New Delhi’s Grand Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 5 (September/October 2025), pp. 186-195
 

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Upcoming Foreign Policy Program: Mon., May 4 at 10 a.m. 
Title: Evolving Leadership in the Middle East
Speaker: Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs
His distinguished career includes serving as US Ambassador to Israel and US Ambassador to Egypt and leading many multilateral peace talks. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

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