Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Senior Fellow

Joined ORF
July 2007

Expertise
U.S. Foreign Policy, Asian Politics, Sri Lankan Politics and Ethnic Conflicts

Background
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is currently Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi. Dr. Rajagopalan joined ORF after an almost five-year stint at the National Security Council Secretariat (2003-2007), where she was an Assistant Director. Prior to joining the NSCS, she was research officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi for nearly six years. She completed her PhD from the Centre for American and West European Studies (now, Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies) of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written extensively on her areas of expertise and her research articles have appeared in edited volumes, and in Strategic Analysis and CLAWS Journal. Other publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Peace Research and Contemporary South Asia and she has also written in national newspapers such as Hindustan Times, Economic Times and Pioneer. She has also written two books, one on Chinese military strategy, The Dragon's Fire: Chinese Military Strategy and Its Implications for Asia, and the other on the US military strategy titled, Uncertain Eagle: US Military Strategy in Asia.

Her areas of research interests include US foreign and security policies, US missile defence issues, military strategies of major Asian powers including China, US, Japan and Russia, ethnic conflicts and Sri Lanka.

Presently
She is working on a project on the US Missile Defences: Implications for Asia and India, which is expected to result in a book-length manuscript. The project is expected to be completed by the September 2011.

E-mail ID: rpr@orfonline.org