Siddharth Mallavarapu

Mallavarapu is an associate professor in, and chairperson of, the Department of International Relations at South Asian University in New Delhi. In the summer of 2013, he was a Käte Hamburger Kolleg senior fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation in Duisburg, Germany. He received his doctorate from the Disarmament Studies Division at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2005; his dissertation concerned the International Court of Justice's 1996 advisory opinion on the legality of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. He is the author of Banning the Bomb: The Politics of Norm Creation and a co-editor of International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South.