Etiqueta: Political Science

Oscar Pérez de la Fuente will deliver an speech on «direction of political science education and research to promote peace, democracy, and human rights» in the  Kim Dae-jung Award Roundtable, whose recipient this year is the scholar  T.V. Paul, during the IPSA World Congress, which will be held in Seoul on 14 July 2025.

2025 Kim Dae-jung Award Recipient | T.V. Paul

This roundtable celebrates the recipient of the Kim Dae-Jung Award on the themes of global peace, democracy and human rights. At a time when autocratic governments are on the rise and the erosion of human rights remain a preoccupation, this roundtable will explore how scholars and policy makers reshape, or try to reshape political participation awareness as a tool against autocratization. The roundtable seeks to examine cooperation, promote strategies to safeguard democratic values, and contribute to reversing the damage caused by autocratic governments while helping to rebuild democracies

Roundtable Participants

• Prof. Ajin Choi (Chair)
• Prof. T.V. Paul, Award Recipient
• Prof. Euiyoung Kim, Korean Political Science Association (KPSA)
• Dr. Haksoon Paik, Kim Dae-jung Foundation
• Prof. Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Chair of RC26 – Human Rights
• Dr. Oscar Perez de la Fuente, Vice-Chair of RC26 – Human Rights

Biography

T.V. Paul is Distinguished James McGill Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montréal, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2016 to 2017, and is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). Prof. Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of five special journal issues, and author of over 90 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia. 

His books include The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, 2024); Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013); Globalization and the National Security State (with N. Ripsman, Oxford University Press, 2010); The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2009); India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (with B.R. Nayar Cambridge University Press, 2002); Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000); and Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Prof. Paul is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021) and currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series: South Asia in World Affairs. He is the recipient of the 2024 International Studies Association (ISA)-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2025 International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award.

More information: https://wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/award/kim-dae-jung-award-roundtable