Prof. Varun Sahni (Vice Chancellor of Goa University) has agreed to give a talk which is jointly organized byHSS Department, Centre for Policy Studies and CTARA. He will speak on Contemporary Political Issues.

His brief profile is given below:

     Prof. Varun Sahni is Vice-Chancellor, Goa University. He is also Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (currently on deputation leave).He speaks annually (since 2006) at the National Defence College (NDC) and several times a year (since 1997) at the Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi. He has been a Jury Member of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. An Inlaks Scholar, he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the political role of the Argentine Navy at the University of Oxford (1991). He has written 105 research articles on nuclear deterrence issues, regional security, emerging balances in the Asia-Pacific, evolving security concepts, emerging powers, international relations theory and Latin American issues. He has recently co-authored /Technology Vision 2035/ for TIFAC, the technology think tank of Government of India. Professor Sahni has been visiting professor at important universities in Mexico City, Washington, DC and Canberra. For his 'outstanding contribution to research and teaching'?, he was conferred the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize in Social Sciences for 2006 by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. From December 2008 to January 2012, he served as the 10^th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu.