Dr. Pradeep Taneja

Dr. Pradeep Taneja

Non Resident International Fellow

Dr Pradeep Taneja, a specialist in Chinese politics and international relations, is Deputy Associate Dean (International – India) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is concurrently a Member of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and an Academic Fellow of the Australia India Institute, both based at the University of Melbourne. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. A Mandarin speaker, Pradeep lived and worked in China for more than six years at a time of great change, including as a Senior Consultant on an iron and steel industry project for the Australian government’s foreign aid agency. 
 
His publications include China Since 1978: Reform Modernisation and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (with Mackerras and Young) and numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is currently working on a collection of case studies of China’s billionaire entrepreneurs and their relationship with the Party state. His other forthcoming book (with Derek McDougall) looks at Sino-Indian competition in the Indian Ocean region and the agency of small island states.
 
His career spans teaching, consultancy work, and research. In other roles, he served as Chair of Strategy at Shinawatra University in Bangkok and Director of International Programs in the Graduate School of Management at La Trobe University. He has held visiting fellowships at Hong Kong Baptist University, the National University of Singapore, and Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. He is frequently interviewed by Australian and foreign media on developments in the Indo-Pacific region. 

  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: February 06, 2024

    The East Asia Explorer tracks evolving geopolitical trends, emerging security challenges, and progress towards regional …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: January 07, 2024

    The East Asia Explorer tracks evolving geopolitical trends, emerging security challenges, and progress towards regional …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: December 07, 2023

    The East Asia Explorer tracks evolving geopolitical and geoeconomic trends, emerging security challenges, progress of regional …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: September 05, 2023

    Australia’s New Foreign Aid Policy Promises “Respect” to Counter Chinese Influence by Pradeep …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: July 09, 2023

    China unlikely to soften its policy toward Japan after the Defence Ministers’ Meeting by Pradeep Taneja In his …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: June 02, 2023

    Successful Modi visit Down Under, but Diaspora Issues need careful handling by Pradeep Taneja   “Prime Minister …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: May 04, 2023

    China’s Growing Security Footprint in the South Pacific Causes Alarm by  Pradeep Taneja   Prime Minister …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: April 01, 2023

    Charting the New Agenda of ASEAN-India Cooperation By Prabir De The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and …

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  • East Asia Explorer

    East Asia Explorer

    Date: March 04, 2023

    Reset in Australia-China Relations by Pradeep Taneja   When Anthony Albanese met Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the …

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  • India Strategic Review

    India Strategic Review

    Date: January 13, 2022

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  • COVID-19 and the mirage of a China-led international order

    COVID-19 and the mirage of a China-led international order

    Date: March 28, 2020

    The study of international relations (IR), as Hans Morgenthau noted, follows a rational and an unemotional course. As people …

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