Search this site
Subscribe to our feeds
Get notifications of our new publications
By email
Through your reader
Subscribe to Security Watch
By email
Through your reader
Dr W Lawrence S Prabhakar
Dr.W.Lawrence S.Prabhakar
is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science Madras
Christian College,
Dr Prabhakar specializes in academic and policy research on the
following areas: Nuclear
Missile issues in Southern Asia; on Maritime Security issues in the
Indian Ocean and the Asia-Pacific Region, Grand Strategy of China
and on research in India-United States Strategic Relations; Grand
Strategy of India.
His primary interest on Nuclear weapons have featured in his
projects with Henry Stimson
His
recent books are The Maritime Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific: Maritime
Doctrines and Nuclear Weapons At Sea
(
Dr Prabhakar is Media Commentator on Asia-Pacific Strategic Issues,
BBC World Service,
He is
Visiting Professor,
Department of Geopolitics,
He has
been consulted on several projects by the Net Assessment
Directorate, Chiefs of Staff Committee Ministry of Defence, Govt. of
India with principal authorship in the following projects i)
“The Role of the Dragon:
Strategic Role and Posture of China in the India-Pakistan Conflict
Spectrum” in the Simulation-cum-Scenario Development Exercise:
India-Pakistan Conflict Spectrum Under the Nuclear Backdrop at the
Army War College, Mhow Feb 2003;ii) “Extra-regional Naval Presence
and Posture: Implications for the Indian Navy” in the Project
Regional Maritime Balance in Indian Ocean 2020;iii) Escalation
Dynamics Based on Nuclear Doctrines and Force Postures in Southern
Asia (March 2004).
His
earlier research fellowships have been at the Center for
Political Studies, Institute of Social Research, University of
Michigan Ann Arbor Visiting Fellow, The Henry Stimson Center,
Washington DC USA, where he worked on “The Draft Indian Nuclear
Doctrine: Perspectives of Regional & Global Nuclear Powers”
May-August 2001 ;In this stint he also worked on
“Indian Security Perspectives
of the PLA Navy in South Asia” for the Center for Naval
Analysis, Alexandria Virginia USA.. He had been on fellowships
to the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
His
numerous other publications have appeared in reputed international
and national journals and edited volumes.