from daijiworld's special correspondent

Panaji, Jan 16: Goa University is organizing a talk by Prof  T V Paul, department of Political Science, University of McGill, Canada on the topic Globalisation and National Security State on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 3:00 pm in the conference hall of administrative building on the university campus. The talk will be chaired by Prof. P S Zacharias, vice chancellor, Goa University. This talk is being organized by the department of Political Science, Goa University under the Distinguished Lecture Series.

T V PAUL is James McGill professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1991. Paul specializes and teaches courses in international relations, especially international security, international conflict and conflict resolution, regional security and South Asia. 

He received his undergraduate education in India, M Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and PhD  in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He is also the author of the books: India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (Cambridge University Press, 2002, with B. Nayar); Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000); and Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994). He has been a Visiting Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (2002-03), Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1997-98), and a Visiting Affiliate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey (2002-2003).