Department Member, Government
About
Research Interests
South and East Asia (India, Pakistan, Kashmir, China, Tibet, Taiwan); US Foreign Policy;
Comparative Politics; IPE and Finance; Grand Strategy; Technology;
Sovereignty; Nationalism
Biography
Matthew Rudolph is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs. His
work is based on the premise that security should be broadly defined to encompass economy,
international society, military security, and technology. His research approach blends international and
domestic factors, emphasizing political institutions and political elites. He has worked on security politics
and arms control in Asia; the international political economy of finance; and U.S., Indian, and Chinese
foreign policy.
Rudolph’s current research and writing is focused on several projects. First, he is revising a book
manuscript based on his doctoral thesis, "The Diversity of Convergence: State Authority, Economic
Governance, and the Politics of Securities Finance in India and China." In it he compares the politics of
stock and bond market development in China and India during the 1990s and explains how and why
India’s financial system is less politicized and less fragile than China’s. He is currently completing
several article-length projects drawing on research conducted in Asia in 2004-2005 and earlier, including
an article analyzing Indian grand strategy and foreign policy in the context of the U.S.-China-India
strategic triangle; an article analyzing the India-China rivalry in information technology (IT) with a focus
on the politics of India’s first leading global sector—IT services; and an article identifying contested
sovereignty as a key driver of Asian insecurity.
Before entering academia Rudolph worked for three years at the Stimson Center, where he collaborated
in the first generation of studies and programs on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in non-
European regions of tension. Focusing on South Asia and North East Asia, he traveled regularly to India
and Pakistan for research and project development. During that time Rudolph also was the liaison
between visiting fellows and CBM experts in the U.S. departments of Defense and State. Rudolph has
spent eight years studying in India and conducting research around South Asia. He has also studied
and conducted research in Greater China for over two years. He speaks Hindi, Mandarin, and French.
Rudolph has received his doctorate in Political Science from Cornell University. He has received
fellowships from the Institute of Current World Affairs; the Mellon Foundation; the Social Science
Research Council; the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China; the Fulbright Program; and
the American Institute of Indian Studies. His work on political economy and security policy has been
published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Institute of Current World Affairs, and various
American and Indian newspapers. He has presented papers at annual conferences of the American
Political Science Association; the Association of Asian Studies; the International Studies Association;
and the University of Wisconsin Annual South Asia Conference. In 2006 he was a research and
teaching fellow at Princeton University’s Institute for International and Regional Studies.
For links to Matthew’s work please visit http://himalayancrossings.com/.
He blogs at
http://himalayancrossing.blogspot.com/. He may also be reached by e-mail at:
bandarpunch[at]gmail.com.
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