Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science, the Director of the India Studies Program and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has previously taught at James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin. A specialist on the international politics of South Asia, he is the author, co-author, editor, co-editor of twenty books on the region. Professor Ganguly has been a Guest Scholar and Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center of Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Security, Asian Survey, Current History, the Journal of Democracy and Security Studies. His most recent book is India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (with S. Paul Kapur). He is currently at work on a book, Deadly Impasse: India-Pakistan Relations at the Dawn of a New Century for Cambridge University Press.