Sumit Ganguly

{{Short description|American political scientist}}

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Sumit Ganguly is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution{{Cite web |title=Sumit Ganguly |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/sumit-ganguly |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}} and a professor of political science at Indiana University and currently holds that University's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia.{{cite news|last=Ganguly|first=Sumit|title=Afghanistan Is Now India's Problem|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/07/19/afghanistan_is_now_indias_problem|newspaper=Foreign Policy|date=July 19, 2011}}{{cite web|title=Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/ganguly.html|publisher=Indiana University}}{{Cite web|url=http://polisci.indiana.edu/faculty/profiles/sganguly.shtml|title=Sumit Ganguly {{!}} Department of Political Science {{!}} Indiana University Bloomington|website=polisci.indiana.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-06}}

Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his master's degree from Miami University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Prior to being appointed at Indiana University, he taught at Michigan State University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals India Review and Asian Security.{{Cite web | url=http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=find20 | title=India Review}}

Published works

; Books

  • The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace, Cambridge University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|9780521655668}}
  • Conflict Unending: India–Pakistan Tensions since 1947, Columbia University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|9780231507400}}
  • The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect, Routledge, 2004. {{ISBN|9781135756574}}
  • Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (with Devin T. Hagerty), University of Washington, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-295-98635-7}}
  • Indian Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012. {{ISBN|9780198080367}}. Revised 2015: {{ISBN|9780198082217}}
  • Deadly Impasse: India–Pakistan Relations at the Dawn of a New Century, Cambridge University Press, 2016. {{ISBN|9780521763615}}
  • Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy (with William R. Thompson), Yale University Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9780300224993}}
  • The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications (with Feisal al-Istrabadi), Brookings Institution Press, 2018. {{ISBN|9780815732174}}

; Edited works

  • India as an Emerging Power, Routledge, 2004. {{ISBN|9781135761769}}
  • US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words (coedited with Andrew Scobell and Brian Shoup), Routledge, 2006. {{ISBN|9780415702157}}
  • South Asia, New York University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780814731765}}
  • India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned, Routledge, 2009, {{ISBN|9781134008094}}
  • Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games (co-edited with William R. Thompson), Stanford University Press, 2011. {{ISBN|9780804775960}}

Awards

Ganguly was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009.

[http://pibmumbai.gov.in/scripts/detail.asp?releaseId=E2011PR1283 Selection Process of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award], Press Information Bureau, Government of India, retrieved 18 August 2020.

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