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Aditi Malhotra

Aditi Malhotra

Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Army Journal

Department of National Defence

aditimalhotra008@gmail.com

Affiliation
Fellows

Dr. Aditi Malhotra is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Journal. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Malhotra is the author of two books, Understanding Security Role Evolution of US, China and India: Setting the Stage (Routledge, 2022), and India in the Indo-Pacific: Understanding India's Security Orientation towards Southeast and East Asia (Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022). Before her current role, she was the co-editor for the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (Graz, Austria). She was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.) and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (Oslo).

Malhotra has also held positions as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) in India. At CLAWS, she was also the deputy editor of Scholar Warrior, a bi-annual security journal.

Malhotra earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Muenster, Germany, and holds a Master鈥檚 in International Studies from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She writes on security issues in the Indo-Pacific region and nuclear deterrence and proliferation in Southern Asia.

Research Interests

  • Indo-Pacific Security
  • International Relations
  • Nuclear proliferation and deterrence   

Recent Publications

  • Engagement, not Entanglement: India鈥檚 Relationship with the Quad, May 1, 2023, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs,
  • Is India the Balancer in the Indo-Pacific? InkStick, April 23, 2023,
  • Understanding Security Role Evolution of US, China and India: Setting the Stage, Routledge, December 2022.
  • India in the Indo-Pacific: Understanding India鈥檚 Security Role Evolution towards Southeast Asia and East Asia, Verlag Barbara Budrich, June 2022.
  • 鈥淐onstructivist Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia,鈥 In 艩umit Ganguly and Frank O鈥橠onnell (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia, Routledge, October 2022.

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