Manjeet Pardesi

Manjeet Pardesi is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a current Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has held Visiting Fellow positions at GIGA in 2023 and 2024.

• Research: Focuses on power, ideas, and international order, particularly historical international orders in Asia and the Sino-Indian strategic rivalry.
• Geographic Focus: Asia/the Indo-Pacific.
• Email: manjeet.pardesi@vuw.ac.nz

Publications: Recent work examines relational approaches to international relations and asymmetry in geopolitical conflicts, with articles in Global Studies Quarterly (2022) and Australian Journal of International Affairs (2021).