Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

Rajagopalan is a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. From 2003 to 2007, she was an assistant director at India's National Security Council Secretariat. Previously, she was a research officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Her most recent book is Clashing Titans: Military Strategy and Insecurity Among Asian Great Powers. She received her doctorate in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1999.

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Articles by Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 July 2013

The potential and pitfalls of societal verification

Jamal Khaer IbrahimRajeswari Pillai RajagopalanIbrahim Said Ibrahim

For decades, arms control experts have envisioned a world in which ordinary people could verify treaty compliance. With the emergence of smartphones and social networks, this world may be ready to materialize. But are developing nations ready for citizen verification?

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
19 June 2013
Asia

Not so fast

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
23 May 2013
Asia

Incentives and limits

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

In his second Roundtable essay, Jamal Khaer Ibrahim argued that professionals in industries associated with the nuclear supply chain might embrace societal verification out of a desire to "protect their professional reputations and avoid criminal or civil penalties associated with wrongdoing." B

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
8 May 2013
Asia

Discomfort with verification, and how to overcome it

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

In the West, handheld devices are attracting considerable attention these days because of their potential to aid in the verification of multilateral arms control arrangements.