Varun Sahni is Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and currently Chairperson of the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD). He is also the Editor of South Asian Survey, an academic journal published by SAGE. He lectures regularly to foreign diplomats and officer trainees of the Indian Foreign Service at the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi.
Before joining the JNU faculty in 1995, Professor Sahni was Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Junior Dean at Lincoln College, Oxford; Resident Fellow of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi and Reader in Latin American Politics at Goa University.
Professor Sahni has held visiting fellowships/professorships at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1997), CIDE, Mexico City (1997-1999) and the National Defense University, Washington, DC (2003), the last of which was under the Fulbright Military Academies Initiative. He has been "Personalité d'Avenir" at the French Foreign Ministry (1995) and a Member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (1999-2002).
Professor Sahni currently teaches two core courses - Theory of International Relations and Problems of International Relations - and one optional course - Great Powers in the International System - in the M.A. Politics (International Studies) programme. He also teaches Research Methodology to the M.Phil. students of CIPOD.
Originally a student of military politics in Latin America, Professor Sahni now researches in the areas of International Relations theory, specifically focusing on great powers/emerging powers, nuclear deterrence and Asian security.
