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| Military politics expert, Sahni to be next JU VC | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Putting all speculations to rest, a Professor of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Varun Sahni, 44, is tipped to take over as next Vice Chancellor of the University of Jammu.
A Defence Strategist and acclaimed authority on international affairs, Sahni replaces Prof Amitabh Mattoo whose extended second term expired on November 17. As a matter of coincidence, Mattoo had also come from the same school and same University from where Sahni has been picked.
Sources said that Varun Sahni was one among the four members selected by the Search Committee for approval of the Jammu and Kashmir Governor who is Chancellor of the University of Jammu. It is learnt that after a communication from the Jammu and Kashmir Government, Sahni confirmed his acceptance of assignment through a fax message this afternoon. He is likely to joint at JU on Monday.
Varun Sahni is Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He is the Editor of South Asian Survey and lectures at the National Defence College and the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi. He has also lectured at the College of Naval Warfare, Mumbai; Army War College, Mhow; Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich; Australian Defence College, Canberra; and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
Before joining the JNU faculty in 1995, Varun Sahni was Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Junior Dean at Lincoln College, Oxford; Resident Fellow of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi and Reader in Latin American Politics at Goa University. He has held visiting fellowships/professorships at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1997), CIDE, Mexico City (1997-1999) and the National Defense University, Washington, DC (2003), the last under the Fulbright Military Academies Initiative.
Professor Sahni has been “Personnalité d’Avenir” at the French Foreign Ministry (1995) and was a Member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores [National System of Researchers] (1999-2002). He serves on the editorial boards of The Chinese Journal of International Politics (Oxford University Press), Asian Security Series, Stanford University Press and Contemporary Politics (Taylor & Francis), and will join the editorial board of International Studies Quarterly in 2009. He also serves on the following bodies: Governing Body, Indian Council for South Asian Cooperation (ICSAC), New Delhi; Executive Committee, Indian Pugwash Society, New Delhi; Consultative Committee, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), New Delhi; and Research Committee, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. He was a Member of the Executive Committee, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi (2002-2008).
Originally a student of military politics in Latin America, Varun Sahni wrote his doctoral thesis on the political history of the Argentine Navy at the University of Oxford (1991), where he was an Inlaks scholar. He has written 75 journal articles, book chapters and research papers on nuclear deterrence issues, regional security, emerging balances in the Asia-Pacific, evolving security concepts, Indian politics, emerging powers, international relations theory and Latin American military politics. His research articles have been published in Current History, Contemporary South Asia and Journal of Latin American Studies, amongst others.
Professor Sahni is on sabbatical from JNU in 2008 as a Fellow of the New India Foundation and is currently writing a book on India’s external security. In recognition of his “outstanding achievements in research and teaching”, the Institute for Social and Economic Change and the Indian Council of Social Science Research have conferred upon him the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences for the year 2006. |
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