Rishabh Yadav
New Delhi, Delhi| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | India’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War period: Constructing identity, interests and (in)securities |
| Field of Study: | Political Science |
| Home Institution: | Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Delhi |
| Host Institution: | Hoover Institution , Stanford, CA |
| Grant Start Month: | November 2025 |
| Duration of Grant: | Seven months |
Brief Bio:
Mr. Rishabh Yadav is a PhD candidate at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His research focuses on drawing linkages between the construction of state identity and state interests with the foreign policy and security issues. In his doctoral thesis, India’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Period: Constructing Identity, Interests, and (In)securities, Rishabh is examining the contestations in state identity and its effect on India’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. His broader areas of interest are foreign policy and security issues in South Asia, constructivist international relations theory, populism and politics of rising power.
Rishabh’s work has been published on popular media platforms such as The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, and The National Interests. His review essays have been published in academic journals such as India Quarterly and Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is a Network for Advanced Studies of Pakistan (NASP) Fellow 2024-25. Rishabh enjoys fiction, sports and popular culture. He plays tennis and football.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow, Rishabh is planning to work on a section of his doctoral thesis in which he will examine the underlying norms, beliefs and perceptions that have shaped India-US relations in the post-Cold War period.