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Brahma Chellaney
Born18 January 1962
New Delhi, India
Occupation(s)Public intellectual, strategic thinker, water expert, columnist
Notable workWater, Peace, and War and Water: Asia's New Battleground
Websitechellaney.net

Brahma Chellaney is a public intellectual and analyst of international geostrategic trends, including great-power equations. He won the Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his pioneering work, Water: Asia's New Battleground, published by Georgetown University Press.[1] The $20,000 Bernard Schwartz Book Award is given by the New York-based Asia Society.

Professor Chellaney is respected for his depth of scholarship and for his independent mind.[2] He is a columnist for several publications, including Project Syndicate, which internationally syndicates commentaries.[3] He has been described by Stanley Weiss as "one of India's top strategic thinkers,"[4] while The Guardian called him "a respected international affairs analyst and author."[5] He has also been described as a "famous strategic pundit and TV talking head".[6]

Education and career

Professor Chellaney was born in New Delhi. After passing the Senior Cambridge examination at Mount St. Mary's School, India, he did a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Hindu College, University of Delhi and a Master of Arts from the Delhi School of Economics. He holds a PhD in international arms control.

At present, he is a Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research, an independent think tank; a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin; and a nonresident affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. In the mid-2000s, he was a member of the Indian government's Policy Advisory Group, which was chaired by the External Affairs Minister of India.[7]

He was one of the authors of India's nuclear doctrine and the country’s first strategic defence review while serving on India's National Security Council, where, until January 2000, he was the convener of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board as well as a member of the Board's Nuclear Doctrine Group.[8]

Among the institutions where he has held appointments include Harvard University, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University.[9]

Besides being a columnist for Project Syndicate,[10] he is a columnist for or a regular contributor to the Nikkei Asian Review, The Globe and Mail, Hindustan Times, The Japan Times, South China Morning Post, and The Times of India. He has also been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, and other newspapers and magazines.

Books

Professor Chellaney is the author of nine books.[11] Two of his more recent books relate to the geopolitics of water resources: Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis (published by Rowman & Littlefield)[12] and Water: Asia's New Battleground (published by Georgetown University Press).[13]

He is also the author of an international best-seller, Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan (HarperCollins, New York).[14] The book focuses on how a fast-rising Asia has become the defining fulcrum of global geopolitical change.

References

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  1. ^ "Brahma Chellaney's Water: Asia's New Battleground wins the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ^ Stanley A. Weiss (21 February 2009), Whom Do Sanctions Hurt?, International Herald Tribune; "Water: Asia's New Battleground |". Georgetown University Press.; "Asian Juggernaut;". HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  3. ^ Columnist Brahma Chellaney. "Project Syndicate".
  4. ^ Stanley A. Weiss (21 February 2009), Whom Do Sanctions Hurt?, International Herald Tribune
  5. ^ Jason Burke (7 April 2011), Indian Activist Anna Hazare Refuses to End Hunger Strike, The Guardian
  6. ^ Shekhar Gupta (3 June 2014), First Person, Second Draft: Once upon a bloody time, Indian Express
  7. ^ "Wilson Center;". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Center for Policy Research |". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Robert Bosch Academy |". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  10. ^ Columnist Brahma Chellaney. "Project Syndicate".
  11. ^ "Center for Policy Research |". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis;". Rowman& Littlefield. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Water: Asia's New Battleground;". Georgetown University Press. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Asian Juggernaut;". Harper Business, New York. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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