International Studies Program faculty

Frank O'Donnell

Part-Time Faculty

Biography

Frank O’Donnell is a Part-Time Faculty member in the International Studies Program, a Senior Research Advisor with the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network, and a Nonresident Fellow in the Stimson Center South Asia Program. His research specializes in international relations and security developments in South Asia, conventional and military doctrine and posture development, arms control, and rising powers in the international system. He was previously Deputy Director of the Stimson Center South Asia Program, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the US Naval War College. He has been a Stanton Junior Faculty Fellow and Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and an Assistant Professor (UK: Lecturer) at the Britannia Royal Naval College.

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia (co-edited with Sumit Ganguly), Routledge, 2022 
  • India and Nuclear Asia: Forces, Doctrine, and Dangers (co-authored with Yogesh Joshi), Georgetown University Press, 2018 

Articles

  • The Dynamics of Informal Institutions and Counter-hegemony: Introducing a BRICS Convergence Index (co-authored with Mihaela Papa and Zhen Han). European Journal of International Relations (July 2023): 1-30. 
  • India's Multi-alignment Management and the Russia–India–China (RIC) Triangle (co-authored with Mihaela Papa). International Affairs, Vol. 97, Issue 3 (2021): 801-822. 
  • Managing Nuclear Multipolarity: A Multilateral Missile Test Pre-Notification Agreement. Washington Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 3 (2020): 177-196. 
  • India’s Nuclear Counter-revolution: Nuclear Learning and the Future of Deterrence. Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 29, Issue 5-6 (2019): 407-426.  
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