T.V. Paul to Deliver Inaugural Kim Dae-jung Award Lecture at the 2025 IPSA World Congress in Seoul

T.V. Paul, recipient of IPSA’s newly established Kim Dae-jung Award, will take part in a special roundtable held at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science on 14 July 2025, at 17:30 (Room 4F 401).

Chaired by Ajin Choi, Co-Chair of the WC2025 Local Organizing Committee and IPSA Executive Committee member, the roundtable will explore key themes of global peace, democracy, and human rights. The session will also feature several prominent scholars, including T.V. Paul (Distinguished James McGill Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada), Euiyoung Kim (Korean Political Science Association and WC2025 LOC Co-Chair), Haksoon Paik (Kim Dae-jung Foundation), Jędrzej Skrzypczak (Chair of IPSA’s Research Committee 26 on Human Rights), and Oscar Perez de la Fuente (Vice-Chair of IPSA’s Research Committee 26 on Human Rights). The roundtable will be followed by a cocktail reception organized by the Kim Dae-jung Foundation. 

The Kim Dae-jung Award 
The Kim Dae-jung Award was established in 2025 to honor the legacy of Kim Dae-jung, the 15th President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from 1998 to 2003 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2000. A revered democratic philosopher-statesman, as well as the author of the 30-volume Kim Dae-jung Works, he is celebrated for translating his democratic philosophies and ideas into concrete policies that benefited both Korea and the world during his presidency. Sponsored by the Kim Dae-Jung Foundation, the award is presented at the IPSA World Congress to honor a scholar of high international reputation in recognition of her or his academic contribution to global peace, democracy, and human rights. 

T.V. Paul 

T.V. Paul is Distinguished James McGill Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montréal, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2016 to 2017, and is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). Prof. Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of five special journal issues, and author of over 90 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia. 

His books include The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, 2024); Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013); Globalization and the National Security State (with N. Ripsman, Oxford University Press, 2010); The Tradition of Non-use of Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2009); India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (with B.R. Nayar Cambridge University Press, 2002); Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000); and Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Prof. Paul is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021) and currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series: South Asia in World Affairs. He is the recipient of the 2024 International Studies Association (ISA)-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2025 International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award.