Aseema Sinha, Ph.D.

Dr. Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College in California, USA. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC.  Her research interests relate to political economy of India, India-China comparisons, International Organizations, and the rise of India as an emerging power.  She teaches courses on comparative politics, globalization and developing countries, International relations and politics of South Asia, and on public health.  She also teaches in the Philosophy, Politics, Economics (PPE) major at CMC. She is an author of journal articles on markets and economic policies of India, India’s foreign policies, trade policy, subnational comparisons in India, India and China, business collective action in India, Global Trade regimes, and public expenditure across Indian states.  She has authored a book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005), which received the Joseph Elder Book Prize in the Indian Social Sciences.  Her book titled, Globalizing India: How Global Rules and Markets are Shaping India's Rise to Power was published by Cambridge University Press (2016). Her articles have appeared in major journals such as Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, International Affairs, British Journal of Political Science, World Development, Polity, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Business and Politics, Journal of Democracy, and India Review. She has recently published, John Echeverri-Gent, and Aseema Sinha, “Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market: Sectoral Politics in India’s Multi-Level Political Economy,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 60 (Summer 2025): 2, 283-309, Aseema Sinha, “The Crisis of Success and Peaceful Change at the WTO and within the Global Trading System” In International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics, edited by T.V. Paul, Anders Wivel and Kai He, Cambridge University Press (2025); Aseema Sinha, “Critical Juncture, Learning and State Capacity-in-Motion: Pathway Cases in Asia,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. 61 (4) (2023); Aseema Sinha, “India in a Changing Global World: Understanding India’s Changing Statecraft and Delhi’s International Relations,”The Roundtable: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (2022).