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B.M. Jain is a distinguished Indian political scientist, internationally known for developing and popularizing psycho-cultural and geopsychological paradigms in the field of international relations and security. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Rajasthan. He had been a Professor and Senior UGC Research Scientist in Political Science at South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan in India, and was also Visiting Professor in Asian and Asian American Studies at State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, for the academic year 2006-2007, and Visiting Professor(The UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace) at Jaume 1 University at Castellon, Spain, in spring 2008. He is also an Honourable Academician and Research Professor at the International Noble Academy, Toronto, 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 (New Providence, New Jersey, U.S.A., 16th edition 1999 and 18th edition 2001). He has conducted nearly a dozen projects at national and international levels, including Globalization, Regionalization and Democratization, and Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Honolulu, Hawaii( 2002-2004), involving 70 scholars from seven civilizations.

Dr. Jain has published more than six dozen research papers/book chapters in refereed journals and books in India and abroad, including in: Pacific Affairs (British Columbia University), The Round Table (London University), Journal of Asian Studies (University of Philippines), Journal of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (Kuala Lumpur), Asian Profile (Canada/Hong Kong), and over one dozen articles in the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (New York: Scribners, 2002); Encyclopedia of Developing World, New York: Routledge, 2006; Air Power: An International Encyclopedia (Vol.1, Denver: ABC-CLIO; Cambridge, England 2002,  and five entries in Historical Encyclopedia of Sino-US Relations (Jefferson, NC :McFarland, 2006). Reviews of his books have appeared in leading international periodicals that include: Journal of International Affairs (London), Orbis (Philadelphia), Journal of Asian Affairs (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and the Journal of Third World Studies (Americus, Georgia, U.S.A.). 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 North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois(Urbana), Pittsburgh( Kansas)  and Pace (New York) in America; McGill at Montreal in Canada, and Humboldt, Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel, Hamburg, Konstanz, Dresden, Leipzig, Kassel,  Frankfurt and Bremen in Germany, and  Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul in Asian universities.. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Asian Affairs and sits on the Editorial Board of Inter-Cultural Studies (University of Newcastle, Callaghan, and Australia).

Dr. Jain has been Visiting Fellow/Scholar in universities/research centres in: London, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Michigan, Washington 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 (IAHA) Conference at Taipei, December 2005; and the 28th World Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 2004. Also, Jain has been a manuscript reviewer for internationally reputable  research journals such as Pacific Affairs(British Columbia University, Vancouver, Canada), Contemporary South Asia ( University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K.) and South Asia:  Journal of South Asian Studies (Monash University at Melbourne, Australia). Professor Jain has been a member of numerous professional organizations, including International Political Science Association (IPSA), 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.

Selected Works: •	India in the New South Asia, IB Tauris, London( forthcoming ,2010). •	Global Power: India’s Foreign Policy, 1947-2006,Lexington Books: A Division of Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD( 2008). •	Conflict and Peace in South Asia, edited by Manas Chatterji and B.M. Jain,,London: Emerald Publishing Group( 2008). •	International Politics: Contexts, Issues and Perspectives, ed., Jaipur: RBSA( 2002).

References B.M. Jain, books and articles in Redroom authors www.redroom.com/author/bm-jain/

B.M. Jain, profile at Asian and Asian American Studies programme, Binghamton University, NY www2.binghamton.edu/aaasp/people/past-visiting-professors.html -

External links •	Biography of B.M. Jain from the webpage of Jaume 1 University at Castellon, Spain http://www.epd.uji.es/master/cvs%20pdf/cv_bmjain.pdf •	The list of Dr. Jain’s publications, including papers: www.epd.uji.es/web/ comun/archivos/cv/cv_bmjain.pdf http://www.hku.hk/cas/pub/Occasional1_bmjain.pdf