Aparna Pande

Research Fellow, India and South Asia

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At A Glance:

Aparna Pande is research fellow at Hudson Institute. Her major field of interest is South Asia, with a special focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, foreign policy, and security.

Biography

Aparna Pande is a research fellow at Hudson Institute. Dr. Pande wrote her PhD dissertation on Pakistan’s foreign policy. Her major field of interest is South Asia with a special focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, foreign policy, and security. Aparna has contributed to the American Interest, the Hindustan Times, the Times of India, the Live Mint, Huffington Post, the Sunday Guardian, The Print, and RealClearWorld.

A 1993 graduate of Delhi University, Dr. Pande holds a master of arts in history from St. Stephens College at Delhi University and a master of philosophy in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr. Pande received a doctorate in political science from Boston University in 2010.

Dr. Pande’s book's include Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Escaping India (Routledge, 2011), From Chanakya to Modi: Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy (Harper Collins, 2017), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan (Routledge, August 2017), and Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power (Harper Collins, 2020). 

 

Events
16
September 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | The United States and India: Milestones Reached and the Pathway Ahead
Featured Speakers:
Aparna Pande
Richard R. Verma
Flags on display at Hyderabad House during the India and United States of America Summit meeting on February 25, 2020. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)
16
September 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | The United States and India: Milestones Reached and the Pathway Ahead

Please join Deputy Secretary of State and former Ambassador to India Richard R. Verma and Hudson’s Dr. Aparna Pande for a conversation on the progress the US and India have made and the major lines of effort ahead.

Flags on display at Hyderabad House during the India and United States of America Summit meeting on February 25, 2020. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Aparna Pande
Richard R. Verma
10
September 2024
Past Event
How to Counter China’s Global South Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Featured Speakers:
Thomas J. Duesterberg
John Lee
Aparna Pande
Patrick M. Cronin
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation displays a medium-range composite wing unmanned aerial vehicle at the Nineteenth ASEAN Expo in Nanning, China, on September 18, 2022. (CFOTO/ Future Publishing via Getty Images)
10
September 2024
Past Event
How to Counter China’s Global South Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation displays a medium-range composite wing unmanned aerial vehicle at the Nineteenth ASEAN Expo in Nanning, China, on September 18, 2022. (CFOTO/ Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Thomas J. Duesterberg
John Lee
Aparna Pande
Patrick M. Cronin
20
May 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | Strategic Synergies: India-US Technology Cooperation
Featured Speakers:
Ambassador Sripriya Ranganathan
Rudra Chaudhuri
Konark Bhandari
Daniel Markey
Vikram Singh
Lisa Curtis
Moderator:
Aparna Pande
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and US President Joe Biden look on as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the White House on June 23, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
20
May 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | Strategic Synergies: India-US Technology Cooperation

This event is part of the Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and US President Joe Biden look on as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the White House on June 23, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Ambassador Sripriya Ranganathan
Rudra Chaudhuri
Konark Bhandari
Daniel Markey
Vikram Singh
Lisa Curtis
Moderator:
Aparna Pande
14
May 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | The Defining Partnership of the Twenty-First Century: US-India Relations
Featured Speakers:
Walter Russell Mead
Aparna Pande
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers remarks during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden at the White House on June 22, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
14
May 2024
Past Event
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series | The Defining Partnership of the Twenty-First Century: US-India Relations

This event is part of the Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers remarks during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden at the White House on June 22, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Walter Russell Mead
Aparna Pande