On 17 June 2004 Dr Raju G C Thomas, Allis Chalmers Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA, gave a talk entitled "Is South Asia the Most Dangerous Place on Earth?"
Dr Thomas was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (1980-1981 and 1988-1989), UCLA (1982-1983), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988-1989), The IISS (1991-1992), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994). Between 1992 and 1997, he was the Co-director of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Marquette University's Joint Centre for International Studies.
Thomas' dozen books and edited/co-edited books include The Defence of India: A Budgetary Perspective (Macmillan-India, 1978); Indian Security Policy (Princeton University Press, 1986); South Asian Security in the 1990s (IISS-London/Oxford University Press, 1993); Perspectives on Kashmir (Westview Press, 1992); and Nuclear India in the 21st Century (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002). Currently, he is co-editing with Stanley Wolpert a 4-volume Encyclopedia of India under contract with Macmillan-Scribners-Gale.
Dr Thomas has an MA degree in Industrial and Monetary Economics from Bombay University, a BScEcon. degree in Economics and International History from the London School of Economics, an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in Political Science from UCLA.
