VIKASH YADAV
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ASIAN STUDIES
I research and teach mainly about globalization, development, and economic freedom. I focus regionally on emerging markets in Asia, particularly India.
I research and teach mainly about globalization, development, and economic freedom. I focus regionally on emerging markets in Asia, particularly India.
I am a Professor in the Department of International Relations and the Department of Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. I earned my B.A. in History at DePauw University, my M.A. in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I was also the Queen Elizabeth Visiting Scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
My research is broadly situated in the overlapping spaces of concern about political and economic liberalism; models of economic development; and issues of governance at the intergovernmental, national, and local scales. Regionally, my work focuses on major emerging Asian economies, particularly India.
In the scholar-teacher model of the liberal arts tradition, my research has been shaped by conversations with my students and I have progressively aimed to produce research that is relevant to their lives and the world they will inhabit and shape in the decades to come. As my primary research method entails a close reading of complex texts and bureaucratic documents, my challenge is to explain to readers how mastering these texts – many of which are now canonical in the field of political economy – can help us to navigate a shared future. To understand how the global economy works, I argue, it is necessary to combine a clear understanding of major theories of political economy with an in-depth and spatially grounded knowledge of the workings of contemporary markets in the context of global value chains, increasing cross-border labor mobility, and an asymmetrically interdependent international financial system.