Lal, Rollie

PERSONAL:

Education: University of Maryland at College Park, B.A.; Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, M.A., Ph.D.

CAREER:

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, MD, former associate director of the South Asia Program; Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper), former Washington correspondent; RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA, political scientist.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Paul and Daisy Soros fellowship, 1998.

WRITINGS:

Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads, RAND Corp. (Santa Monica, CA), 2006.

Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World, Praeger Security International (Westport, CT), 2006.

Contributor of articles to publications, including the Financial Times, Baltimore Sun, and the Daily Yomiuri.

SIDELIGHTS:

Rollie Lal is a political scientist who specializes in South Asia and East Asia, focusing in particular on both the internal dynamics and foreign relations of India and Pakistan, and strategic relations between India, China, and Japan. Lal's contributions to the literature on this region include Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads and Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World. Understanding China and India addresses the rise of these two nations as they become increasingly more powerful on the global stage. Lal offers readers a glimpse of the nations from the inside out, focusing on the viewpoint of the elite and the policy-makers, and their attitudes toward other countries, including the United States. Lal performed extensive research, interviewing an array of individuals in both nations in order to gain an accurate perspective. Gilbert Taylor, in a review for Booklist, remarked that "Lal's original research will assist those engaged in the study of Asia's international politics." In a review for California Bookwatch, one contributor called Lal's effort "a ‘must’ for college-level students of either nation."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July 1, 2006, Gilbert Taylor, review of Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World, p. 13.

California Bookwatch, July 1, 2006, review of Understanding China and India.

Choice, February 1, 2007, J.A. Rhodes, review of Understanding China and India, p. 1050.

Far Eastern Economic Review, July 1, 2006, Robert M. Hathaway, review of Understanding China and India, p. 63.

Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, January 1, 2007, Bruce Klingner, review of Understanding China and India, p. 227.

Reference & Research Book News, August 1, 2006, review of Understanding China and India.

ONLINE

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships,http://www.pdsoros.org/ (June 19, 2007), fellowship announcement.

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Web site,http://www.uscc.gov/ (March 12, 2004), author biography.