Raphaëlle Khan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York – City College, and an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center. Her research focuses on the international relations of South Asia from a historical and contemporary perspectives. Her interests include the role of decolonised states in contesting the world order, international organisations and decolonization, the foreign policy of emerging powers, and the geopolitical reconfiguration of the Indo-Pacific region.
She previously worked or collaborated with the Institut de Recherche Stratégique in Paris, the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, and the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. She also taught at Sciences Po Paris.
Education
- PhD King’s College London
- MSc The London School of Economics and Political Science
- MA Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris)
Courses
- PSC 10300 Introduction to World Politics
- PSC 23700 Political Systems of Asia
- PSC 25604 Contemporary World Conflict
- PSC 25700 Globalization and Global Governance
Book:
- Struggle for Sovereignty: India, Decolonisation, and International Organisations, 1919-1960s (provisional title), book manuscript currently under preparation. Under contract with Columbia University Press.
Edited Volumes:
- Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy. Co-edited with Mischa Hansel and Mélissa Levaillant. London: Routledge, 2017.
Articles:
- “Signalling through Implicature: How India Signals in the Indo-Pacific.” Co-written with Kate Sullivan de Estrada. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, forthcoming.
- “India and Overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946-1965: Experiments in Post-imperial Sovereignty.” Co-written with Taylor C. Sherman. Modern Asian Studies 65, no. 4 (July 2022).
- “Disrupting the Empire and Forging IR: The Role of India’s Early Think Tanks in the Decolonisation Process, 1936-1950s.” The International History Review 44, no. 4 (August 2022).
- “Sovereignty after Empire and the Search for a New Order: India’s Attempt to Negotiate a Common Citizenship in the Commonwealth (1947-1949).” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 49, no. 6 (December 2021).
Book Chapters:
- “L’Inde et l’Indo-Pacifique.” In L’Indo-Pacifique, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot and Delphine Allès. Series “Enjeu Mondial.” Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, forthcoming.
- “The Rise of New-Generation Foreign Policy Think Tanks in India: Causes, Contours, and Roles.” Co-written with Patrick Köllner. In From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region, edited by Robert Patman, Patrick Köllner, and Balazs Kiglics. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- “Between Ambitions and Caution: India, Human Rights and Self-Determination at the United Nations.” In Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Birth of Global Human Rights Politics, edited by Roland Burke, Marco Duranti, and A. Dirk Moses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “India as a Norm Claimer: Normative Struggles and the Assertion of Sovereignty at the San Francisco Conference (1945).” In Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy, edited by Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, and Mélissa Levaillant. London: Routledge, 2017.
Book Reviews and Review Essay:
- “Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature.” Co-written with Dirk A. Moses. Review of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age, by Shruti Kapila. Global Intellectual History, November 2023.
- Review of Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, by Eva-Maria Muschik. H-Diplo Roundtable, 2024.
- Review of India, China, and the World: A Connected History, by Tansen Sen. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2021.
- Review of Vineet Thakur, “An Asian Drama: The Asian Relations Conference, 1947.” The International History Review 41, no. 3 (2019): 673-695. H-Diplo, February 2020.
- Review of East of India, South of China: Sino-Indian Encounters in Southeast Asia, by Amitav Acharya. Revue Défense Nationale, Summer 2018.
She is a contributor to policy and media outlets in France, Germany, India and the United States.
