BM Jain


BM Jain is an Indian political scientist, who has developed and popularized psycho-cultural and geopsychological paradigms in the field of international relations and security.

Career

Jain obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Rajasthan. He has been a Professor and Senior UGC Research Scientist in Political Science at South Asia Studies Center, University of Rajasthan in India, and Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, and was also Honorary Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia-Okanagan; Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio in 2013; Visiting Professor in Asian and Asian American Studies at State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, for the academic year 2006-2007, and Visiting Professor at Jaume I University at Castellón de la Plana, Spain, in spring 2008. He is also an Honourable Academician and Research Professor at the International Noble Academy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He is a member of the International Advisory Council, The Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and is featured in Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He has conducted nearly a dozen projects at national and international levels, including Globalization, Regionalization and Democratization project sponsored by the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, involving 70 scholars from seven civilizations. He was rapporteur of his research group, and his paper has been published in Solomon, ed., Challenges to Global Security, IB Tauris, London, 2008, pp. 90–111.
Jain has published more than six dozen research papers/book chapters in refereed and peer reviewed journals, and over 18 books in India and abroad, including in: Pacific Affairs, The Round Table, International Journal of China Studies, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Journal, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Asian Profile, Entlungspolitik and over one dozen articles in the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia ; Encyclopedia of Developing World, New York: Routledge, 2006; Air Power: An International Encyclopedia. Reviews of his books have appeared in periodicals that include: Journal of International Affairs, Orbis, Journal of Asian Affairs, and the Journal of Third World Studies. He has presented more than three dozen papers at international conferences abroad. He has delivered the invited lectures in many universities in Europe, North America and Asia that include University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Pittsburg State University and Pace University in America; McGill University at Montreal in Canada, and Humboldt University, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Kiel, University of Hamburg, University of Konstanz, University of Dresden, University of Leipzig, University of Kassel, Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Bremen in Germany, and University of Tokyo, University of Hong Kong, University of Seoul, Manipal University, Raffles University, and Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, in Asian universities. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Asian Affairs and sits on the Editorial Board of Inter-Cultural Studies., and Journal of International and Global Studies, Lindenwood University.
Jain has been Visiting Fellow/Scholar in universities/research centres in: London, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Seoul. He was Convener of a research panel at: 22nd International Peace Research Association's World Congress, Leuven, Belgium, July 2008; International Association of Historians of Asia Conference at Taipei, December 2005; and the 28th World Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 2004. Also, Jain has been a manuscript reviewer for research journals such as Pacific Affairs, Contemporary South Asia and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. His research works have been cited in works by authors such as Ashley J. Tellis ; Harold A. Gould and Sumit Ganguly, eds. ; Song De ; Richard Edmund Ward ; Tony Hindmarsh, Australian Defence College ; and Ming Hwa Ting,.
Jain has been a member of International Political Science Association, Association of Third World Studies, International Peace Research Association, International Congress of Psychology, International Association of Historians in Asia, and Indian Congress of Defence Studies.

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