Dr. Abhishek Choudhary
Assistant Professor

Comparative Politics, International Relations, Indian Political Thought, Critical Security Studies, Global Justice.

Work Experience

2022 - Present: Sr. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2017 - 2022: Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Publications

2025: Decolonizing the canon of just war theory: Indian philosophies of Samkhya and Yoga. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Elsevier.
2025: Political and Economic Inequalities, Decolonising International Relations: Perspectives from the Global South, Routledge.
2025: Decolonizing Environmental Politics: Relationality and Cosmopraxis in the Sundarbans region, Bangladesh. Asian Politics & Policy, Wiley.
2023: Global Justice, Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, Springer. Read More

Project Director, ICSSR Research Project on Vision Viksit Bharat@2047 (Category B - INR 80,00,000/-).
'A Socio-Technical Framework for Resilient and Sustainable Water Management for Smart Cities: A Study of Urban Rajasthan' (2024-2027)
Post Graduate Bursary, British International Studies Association (BISA) (2017, 2019).
Travel Grant, International Studies Association (ISA) (2019, 2017, 2016).
Junior/Senior Research Fellowship in Political Science from UGC (2012-17) Read More

2025: 'The Perils of Decolonizing IR: Problematizing Relationality', at the British International Studies Association (BISA) and the International Studies Association (ISA) Inaugural Joint International Workshops, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, October.
2025: '(Not) Reaching the 'Next' Stage: Annihilation of Caste as Divine Violence', at the 75th Annual International Conference of the Political Studies Association (PSA), Birmingham, UK, April.
2023: 'Emancipation as Security, Dignity as Emancipation', 2023 Annual Millennium Symposium, LSE, London. Read More