Professor T.V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University. Paul specializes and teaches courses in international relations, especially international security, regional security and South Asia. He is the author or editor of 21 books and nearly 85 journal articles or book chapters. In September 2018, Paul became a . In March 2019, Paul took the leadership role in forming the This network is aimed at promoting worldwide scholarship on this neglected subject. In August 2021, Oxford University Press published with some 41 chapters by leading scholars on global, regional and national level research on peaceful change. T.V. Paul was elected as the and on March 17, 2016 he took charge as ISA President for 2016-17. He delivered the presidential address on the theme: “Recasting Statecraft: International Relations and the Strategies of Peaceful Change.” In the presentation, he called for the International Relations discipline and its theoretical paradigms to devote more attention to strategies for achieving enduring peace among states. For the full text of the speech, see: .
Dr Rohan Mukherjee’s research focuses on rising powers and how they navigate the power and status hierarchies of international order. His book, : Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions, published in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series with Cambridge University Press, received the 2023 Hedley Bull Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the 2023 Hague Journal of Diplomacy Book Award. His regional focus is on the Asia-Pacific, particularly how major powers such as India, China, the United States, and Japan, and smaller states in South and Southeast Asia, manage the regional effects of global transitions. Prior to the 杏吧论坛, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He received his PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He holds an MPA in International Development from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford. He has also been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the MIT Security Studies Program and a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo.