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M.A.; M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);

Ph.D. (University of Delaware)

Dr. Rajdeep Pakanati

Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy

Email rpakanati@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-6966-4890
Key Expertise Comparative Politics, International Law, Transparency & Accountability, Norms and Institutions, Human Rights & Transitional Justice, India and China in International Relations

M.A.; M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);

Ph.D. (University of Delaware)

Biography

Dr. Rajdeep Pakanati is a Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Global Governance and Policy. Dr. Rajdeep Pakanati holds a Bachelors in Political Sciences from Kakatiya University (India), Masters degree in Politics and International Relations and an M.Phil degree in International Law from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). He has also earned a Masters degree in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He completed his Doctorate degree in June, 2012, from the University of Delaware (United States). He has been an instructor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware and has taught comparative politics and the politics of developing nations.

Prof. (Dr.) Rajdeep Pakanati’s research interests include International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Law and Global Governance. In particular he has been engaged with issues of transparency and accountability, and how they contribute to good governance. His dissertation project examines the process through which freedom of information legislations were adopted in India, the United Kingdom and South Africa, in a comparative context. The research also focuses on how the international norms on transparency are filtered through the domestic setting, and the impact they have on mechanisms of accountability. His present teaching includes courses on International Law, Research Methods, Accountability and Academic Writing.

International Law and Organizations

Research Methods

Comparative Politics

Indian Foreign Policy

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Introduction to Academic Writing

India and China in International Relations History since 1945

Global Mechanisms of Accountability

EU Governance Structure and Europeanisation

Films and International Relations

Taiwan Fellowship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, January - June 2018

Soles Fellow, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware, Summer 2011

Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate and Professional Education, University of Delaware, Spring 2011

Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 2003-2006

Visiting Professor, Shandong University, China, 2018

Pakanati, Rajdeep, Mithuna Jayadev Unnithan, & Khwahish Agarwal. Learning International Relations through Films. Studies in Indian Politics Vol. 12(1), June 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230241235354

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India, by Janaki Srinivasan. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. In International Journal of Communication. Volume 18 (2024): 279-282. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22368/4430

Pakanati, R. (2023). Teaching International Relations Through Films. Studies in Indian Politics, 11(2), 335-341. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230231203789

Pakanati, Rajdeep, Jeannine E. Relly, Md. Fazle Rabbi, Himanshu Jha, & Meghna Sabharwal. (2023). " Integrating Social Equity into Right to Information and Access to Information Laws and Policies: Drawing on the Indian Case". In Zafarallah, H., & Siddiquee, N.A. (Eds.) Open Government and Freedom of Information: Policy and Practice in Asia and the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35863-0_11

CAPTURING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India by Himanshu Jha. Oxford University Press, India, 2020. In Seminar Magazine, #738, February 2021. https://india-seminar.com/2021/738/738_books.htm

Pakanati, Rajdeep & Jeannine E. Relly. 2020. Deepening Democracy Through a Social Movement: Networks, Information Rights, and Online and Offline Activism. International Journal of Communication Vol. 14, pp. 4760–4780. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/11575

Pakanati, Rajdeep, Jeannine E. Relly, Md. Fazle Rabbi, Meghna Sabharwal & Ethan H. Schwalbe. 2020. More than a decade in the making: A study of the implementation of India's Right to Information Act. World Development, Vol. 136, December 2020, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105088

Pakanati, Rajdeep. 2019. India’s Domestic Debate over China’s Growing Strategic Presence in the Indian Ocean, Journal of Defence Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, January-March 2019, pp. 5-31. Available at https://idsa.in/jds/jds-13-1-2019-indias-domestic-debate

Pakanati, Rajdeep. 2019. Implication of 2019 Elections on Indian Foreign Policy. Asia Insights No.10 (February, 2019). Published by IIR-CSEAS-CSSAS. Available at https://asiainsightsiir.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/asia-insights-10.pdf

Vivienne Shue and Patricia M. Thornton (Eds.), To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781316643167, 321 pp.,). In China Report. Vol. 55(4): 413- 415, November 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0009445519875246

Pakanati, Rajdeep. 2018. Reading Professor V. S. Mani from an international relations perspective. Indian Journal of International Law 58(1-2): 57-83. Available at http s://doi.org/10.1007/s40901-019-00100-0

Pakanati, Rajdeep & Relly, Jeannine. 2018. Freedom of Information Lessons from India: Collaboration, Coproduction and Rights-based Agenda Building. Journalism 22(4): 974–992. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1464884918817032

Pakanati, Rajdeep. India's domestic debate over China's activities in the Indian Ocean. Asia-Pacific Security and Maritime Affairs, No. 5. Published by Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University, China. January 15, 2016. ISSN 2096-0484. (Published in Chinese). Available at https://nanhai.nju.edu.cn/50/43/c5877a151619/page.htm

Pakanati, Rajdeep. 2015. Ten Years of Right to Information Act, 2005: Whither Transparency and Accountability. Law & Policy Brief. Volume 1, Issue 6. https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/3378

Kumar, Amitava. A Matter of Rats – a short biography of Patna (Duke University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8223-5704-9, 116 pp.,). In Contemporary South Asia. Vol. 23(2): 235-236. June 2015.

Kisiangani, Emmanuel. Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation: A Tenable Nexus? (VDM Verlag: Saarbrucken, 2010, ISBN: 978 -3639244946, 268 pp., £69). In Journal of Conflict Transformation & Security. Vol. 1(1): 136-137. April 2011.
Email rpakanati@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0001-6966-4890
Key Expertise Comparative Politics, International Law, Transparency & Accountability, Norms and Institutions, Human Rights & Transitional Justice, India and China in International Relations
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