Sunil Dasgupta is director of UMBC’s Political Science Program at the Universities at Shady Grove and a nonresident senior fellow with the India Project in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. His work focuses on military organization, security, and insurgency. His current research examines Indian and Chinese grand strategic approaches in pursuit of great power status.

He is the author, with Stephen P. Cohen, of Arming without Aiming: India’s Military Modernization (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). Before his appointment at UMBC, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Security Policy Studies program at George Washington University (2007-2008), a visiting assistant professor in the Security Studies program at Georgetown University (2004-2007), and a guest scholar in Governance Studies at Brookings.

Dasgupta came to the United States in the mid-1990s for a fellowship at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he went on to earn a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science. Before that, he was a senior correspondent in Delhi for India Today, where he covered security and intelligence, and a staff reporter for India’s Financial Express.

Dasgupta has written articles and op-eds for numerous publications and peer-reviewed journals. His most recent work includes “The Fate of India’s Strategic Restraint” (Current History, April 2012); “Why Mumbai Needs a Mayor: The Consequences of India’s Hands-Off Democracy,” (Foreign Affairs, August 2011); “Can Weapons Sales Rescue U.S.-India Relations?” with Stephen P. Cohen (Foreign Affairs, February/March 2011); and “Is India Ending its Strategic Restraint Doctrine?” with Stephen P. Cohen (The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2011).

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