Spotlight on Dr Rohan Mukherjee

In 2023-24, as part of the Centre’s UGRA progamme, Rohan Mukherijee worked with LSE undergraduate student Pranjali Goradia on the project, Democratic Decline and Alliances, which comparatively studied the response of the United States to democratic collapse in the Philippines (an ally) and India (a non-ally) in the middle of the Cold War. 

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Dr Mukherjee was also the co-recipient of a Small Conference Grant from the Centre, through which he co-organised a workshop on ‘US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific’ with Centre affiliates Dr Lauren Sukin and Dr Matthew Jones. The conference assembled experts from around the world at LSE in June 2024. 

Visit our event page to find out more: US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific

Listen to the Ballpark episode about the conference. 

Dr Mukherjee’s book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2022), has received three prestigious international awards: the 2024 T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations award from the International Studies Association (ISA), the 2023 Hedley Bull Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the 2023 Hague Journal of Diplomacy Book Award.  

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Read USAPP Blog for Q and A with Dr Mukherjee about his book. 

In January 2024, Dr Mukherjee joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Nonresident Scholar and the National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington, D.C., as a Nonresident Fellow. 

In 2022-23, for the Phelan US Centre’s UGRA program, Dr Mukherjee worked with Maia Halle, an undergraduate student from the Department of Government at LSE, on the project, Anglo-American Relations after the US Civil War, which also studied this period as a rare case of peaceful transition in world politics between a dominant power (Britain) and a rising power (the US).

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