APrf Priya Chacko

APrf Priya Chacko

Associate Professor

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Priya Chacko is an Associate Professor of International Politics at the University of Adelaide. Prior to Adelaide, she worked at universities at Victoria University of Wellington and University of the Witwatersrand and was  a non-resident fellow at the Perth-US Asia Centre and a visiting fellow at the Australia-India Institute.

 

She is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and was previously co-Editor-in Chief of Contemporary Politics. Her research focuses on how nationalism facilitates, and is used to legitimise, domestic and foreign policies;  how the international (global capitalist processes, colonialism and imperialism, transnational knowledge production, geopolitics etc.) shapes domestic politics and political economy; and the structural role of ideology in capitalism. She has published widely on these topics with a focus on Indian politics and foreign policy and the Indo-Pacific region in journals like International Affairs, Political Geography, Modern Asian Studies and Journal of Contemporary Asia. 

 

Her current projects focus on 1) the rise and impact of authoritarian populist governance in India; 2) the transnational impact of autocratisation in India through strategies of transnational repression, legitimation, cooptation and cooperation; 3) Australia’s international relations; 4) The global far-right; 5) Diaspora politics in Australia. 

 

 

Year Citation
2026 Chacko, P. (2026). Conspiracy theories and India's transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 28(2), 832-862.
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2026 Altinors, G., Chacko, P., Davidson, M., Kazharski, A., Valluvan, S., & Zhang, C. (2026). The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics. International Political Sociology, 20(2), olag012-1-olag012-26.
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2026 Cheng, H., Chacko, P., Karib, F., Malitz, D. M., & Yang, Y. (2026). The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?. Dialogues in Human Geography, 16(1), 245-253.
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2025 Chacko, P., & Thakur, V. (2025). Civilisation-Washing: Caste and Indian Diplomacy at the G20 Summit. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 20(3), 636-663.
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2025 Chacko, P., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the calypsology of sanitation reforms. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(1), 180-200.
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2024 Chacko, P. (2024). The illusionist: Exposing the Modi cult. Australian Foreign Affairs.
2023 Chacko, P. (2023). Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy. JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 59(6), 2 pages.
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2023 Chacko, P. (2023). The neoliberal roots of authoritarian protectionism. International Politics, 60(2), 449-460.
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2023 Chacko, P. (2023). Disciplining India: paternalism, neo-liberalism and Hindutva civilizationalism. International Affairs, 99(2), 551-565.
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2023 Chacko, P. (2023). Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific. Political Geography, 105, 102923-1-102923-11.
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2022 Mayer, P., & Chacko, P. (2022). Will India Implement a Uniform Civil Code?. Australian Outlook, 23 Jun.
2022 Chacko, P. (2022). Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India. ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW, 47(2), 2 pages.
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2021 Chacko, P., & Strating, R. (2021). The Demise of “Pragmatism”? Assessing the Public Debate on Australia's Engagement with China. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67(3-4), 18 pages.
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2021 Chacko, P. R. I. Y. A. (2021). A New Quest for Self-Reliance: East Asia and Indian Economic Nationalism. The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 02(02).
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2020 Chacko, P. (2020). Gender and authoritarian populism: empowerment, protection, and the politics of resentful aspiration in India. CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 52(2), 22 pages.
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2020 Barthwal-Datta, M., & Chacko, P. (2020). The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific: Free, open, prosperous, inclusive?. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74(3), 244-263.
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2019 Bhatnagar, S., & Chacko, P. (2019). Peacebuilding think tanks, Indian foreign policy and the Kashmir conflict. Third World Quarterly, 40(8), 1496-1515.
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2019 Chacko, P. (2019). Marketising Hindutva: The state, society and markets in Hindu Nationalism. Modern Asian Studies, 53(2), 377-410.
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2018 Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2018). A capitalising foreign policy: Regulatory geographies and transnationalised state projects. European Journal of International Relations, 24(1), 82-105.
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2018 Chacko, P. (2018). The Right Turn in India: Authoritarianism, Populism and Neoliberalisation. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48(4), 41-65.
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2018 Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2018). Asia's Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48(4), 529-540.
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2018 Chacko, P., & Willis, D. (2018). Pivoting to Indo-Pacific? The Limits of Indian and Indonesian Integration. East Asia, 35(2), 133-148.
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2018 Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2018). Resignifying ‘responsibility’: India, exceptionalism and nuclear non-proliferation. Asian Journal of Political Science, 26(3), 352-370.
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2018 Chacko, P. (2018). Foreign policy, ideas and state-building: India and the politics of international intervention. Journal of International Relations and Development, 21(2), 346-371.
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2017 Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2017). The natural/neglected relationship: liberalism, identity and India-Australia relations. Pacific Review, 30(1), 26-50.
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2017 Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2017). Trump, the authoritarian populist revolt and the future of the rules-based order in Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(2), 121-127.
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2017 Chacko, P. (2017). Women’s economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean region through gender equality in work: building a common agenda. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 13(1), 111-118.
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2017 Chacko, P. S. E., Seifi, A., & Diller, K. R. (2017). A human thermoregulation simulator for calibrating water-perfused cooling pad systems for therapeutic hypothermia. Journal of Medical Devices Transactions of the ASME, 11(3).
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2016 Chacko, P., Drew, G., & Brookes, J. (2016). Could bio-toilets solve India's sanitation problems and save the Yamuna River?. The Conversation, 2016(Nov. 10).
2015 Chacko, P. (2015). Territorial Sovereignty in India and its Discontents. Economic and Political Weekly, 50(7).
2015 Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2015). Myanmar and India: regimes of citizenship and the limits of geo-economic engagement. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 14(1), 124-143.
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2015 Chacko, P. (2015). The new geo-economics of a "rising" India: state transformation and the recasting of foreign policy. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(2), 326-344.
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2014 Chacko, P., & Mayer, P. (2014). The Modi lahar (wave) in the 2014 Indian national election: a critical realignment?. Australian Journal of Political Science, 49(3), 518-528.
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2014 Chacko, P. (2014). Variegated neoliberalisation in India and Africa: towards a new research agenda. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 52(4), 563-569.
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2014 Chacko, P. (2014). A new "special relationship"?: Power transitions, ontological security, and India-US relations. International Studies Perspectives, 15(3), 329-346.
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2014 Chacko, P. (2014). Remapping India: new states and their political origins. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 90(3), 731-732.
2014 Chacko, P. (2014). The rise of the Indo-Pacific: understanding ideational change and continuity in India's foreign policy. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(4), 433-452.
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2014 Chacko, P. (2014). India in Africa: changing geographies of power. COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 52(4), 563-569.
2014 Chacko, P. (2014). State-business relations and economic development in Africa and India. COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 52(4), 563-569.
2012 Chacko, P. (2012). Amitav Acharya, Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, pp. 189, ISBN 978 9 8142 7915 4. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 66(2), 277-278.
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2011 Chacko, P. (2011). The search for a scientific temper: nuclear technology and the ambivalence of India's postcolonial modernity. Review of International Studies, 37(1), 185-208.
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2011 Chacko, P. (2011). War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of Nehru Years. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 48(2), 305-307.
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2001 Chacko, P. (2001). Culture and Politics in an Age Of Global Media: the impact of satellite television and the internet in India. Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 22, 110-123.

Year Citation
2016 Chacko, P. (Ed.) (2016). New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences. Routledge.
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2016 Chacko, P. (Ed.) (2016). New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences. Routledge.
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2012 Chacko, P. (2012). Indian foreign policy: the politics of postcolonial identity from 1947 to 2004. United Kingdom: Routledge.
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Year Citation
2025 Chacko, P. (2025). Dignifying Economic Inequality: Authoritarian Populist Governance in India. In Social Acceptance of Inequality on the Logics of A More Unequal World (pp. 309-336). Oxford University Press.
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2025 Yilmaz, I., Chacko, P., Heupner, S. D. G., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). THE TRANSNATIONALISATION OF STRATEGIC DIGITAL INFORMATION OPERATIONS: Turkey and India. In Authoritarian Actors and Strategic Digital Information Operations the New Age of Manipulation (pp. 209-234). Routledge.
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2024 Chacko, P., & Thakur, V. (2024). Postcolonialism and foreign policy. In S. Smith, A. Hadfield, T. Dunne, & N. Kitchen (Eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (4th Edition ed.). Oxford University Press.
2021 Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2021). The economics–security nexus and East Asian
integration. In F. Kimura, M. Pangestu, S. M. Thangavelu, & C. Findlay (Eds.), Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration (pp. 435-453). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2019 Chacko, P. (2019). Indira Gandhi, the "Long 1970s", and the Cold War. In M. Bhaghavan (Ed.), India and the Cold War (pp. 178-196). Chapel Hill, NC, USA: The University of North Carolina Press.
2019 Chacko, P. (2019). Constructivism and Indian Foreign Policy. In H. V. Pant (Ed.), New Directions in Indian Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (pp. 48-66). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2019 Chacko, P. (2019). Emerging Regimes of Market Citizenship: The Politics of Social Policy in Contemporary India. In A. P. DCosta, & A. Chakraborty (Eds.), Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics (pp. 39-55). SPRINGER INDIA.
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2016 Chacko, P. (2016). The decolonial option: toward an ethic of Self-Securing. In J. Nyman, & A. Burke (Eds.), Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda (pp. 189-200). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2016 Chacko, P. (2016). India and the Indo-Pacific from Singh to Modi: geopolitical and geoeconomic entanglements. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific: Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 43-59). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2016 Chacko, P. (2016). Introduction: The Rise of the Indo-Pacific. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 1-8). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2016 Chacko, P. (2016). Introduction: The Rise of the Indo-Pacific. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 1-8). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2013 Chacko, P. (2013). India and the Indo-Pacific in New Delhi’s BRICS calculus. In F. A. Kornegay, & N. Bohler-Muller (Eds.), Laying the BRICS of a new global order: from Yekaterinburg 2009 to Ethekwini 2013 (pp. 260-276). Africa Institute of South Africa.
2013 Chacko, P. (2013). India and the Indo-Pacific in New Delhi’s BRICS calculus. In F. A. Kornegay, & N. Bohler-Muller (Eds.), Laying the BRICS of a New Global Order: From Yekaterinburg 2009 to eThekwini 2013. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa.
2012 Chacko, P. (2012). Interpreting the 'rise of India': India-US relations in an age of power transition. In A. Mattoo (Ed.), The Reluctant Superpower: understanding India and its aspirations (1 ed., pp. 234-256). Australia: Melbourne University Press.
2012 Chacko, P. (2012). IBSA in the foreign policy of a rising India. In S. Patel, & T. Uys (Eds.), Contemporary India and South Africa: Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas (pp. 274-290). India: Taylor and Francis.
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2011 Chacko, P. (2011). The internationalist nationalist: pursuing an ethical modernity with Jawaharlal Nehru. In R. Shilliam (Ed.), International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity (1 ed., pp. 178-196). United Kingdom: Routledge.
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Year Citation
2023 Chacko, P., & Paul, M. (2023). Ram Rajya 2.0: Nostalgia, cinema and Indian nationalism. Red Pepper.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Principal Supervisor An analysis of the ways in which the Russian state controls the flow of information in media Master of Research Master Full Time Ms Sophia Pattichis
2024 Co-Supervisor Militant Democracy in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew James Bracken Nicoll
2024 Co-Supervisor Militant Democracy in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew James Bracken Nicoll
2023 Principal Supervisor ‘Kerala is different’: Tracing the global history of the region in South India Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Anand Sreekumar
2023 Principal Supervisor The Impact of Sino-Indian relations on the Evolution of Tibetan nationalist movement Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Janhavi Rajiv Pande
2023 Co-Supervisor The Influence of Religion on the Voting Attitudes and Behaviour of Educated Middle-Class Electors in Bangladesh Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Arefa Sultana
2023 Principal Supervisor The Impact of Sino-Indian relations on the Evolution of Tibetan nationalist movement Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Janhavi Rajiv Pande
2023 Principal Supervisor Kerala is different: Tracing the global history of the region in South India Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Anand Sreekumar
2023 Co-Supervisor The Influence of Religion on the Voting Attitudes and Behaviour of Educated Middle-Class Electors in Bangladesh Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Arefa Sultana

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2018 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Nurturing Women’s Participation in STEM: An Analysis of Australian, Indian and Singaporean Government Policies and Programs Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Kirsty Nicole Haynes
2018 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Citizens or ‘Infiltrators’? Decolonising the Securitisation of Migration and Citizenship in India Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Maggie Paul
2016 - 2019 Principal Supervisor A Moment of Possibility: The Rise and Fall of the New International Economic Order Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sam Thomas Nicholls
2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Challenging or Building Consensus on India's Pakistan Policy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Stuti Bhatnagar
2014 - 2019 Co-Supervisor The Development of IGAD as a Distinctively African Regional Security Community for the Horn of Africa with Case Studies of South Sudan and Somalia Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Stephen Gatkak Chan
2012 - 2015 Principal Supervisor India and the 'Anglosphere': A Postcolonial Genealogy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alexander Edmund Davis
2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Internationalisation of Chinese Capital and the Transformation of State-society Relations in Ethiopia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Edson Ziso
2012 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Blinded by the Rising Sun: Japanese Military Intelligence from the First Sino-Japanese War to the End of World War II Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Simon Hall
2011 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Think Tanks, Discourse, and the Promotion of Non-Traditional Security in Asia: An Examination of Think Tank Ideational Influence on Asian Security Governance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Erin Catherine Zimmerman
2011 - 2013 Co-Supervisor The Kurdish and Iraqi Counter-Quests for Nationhood The Transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan into Quasi-State Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Aram Rafaat

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2023 - ongoing Editor South Asia: journal of South Asian studies South Asian Studies Association of Australia Australia
2019 - ongoing Board Member Australian Journal of International Affairs Griffith Australia
2019 - 2022 Editor Contemporary Politics Routledge United Kingdom
2018 - ongoing Associate Editor Asian Studies Review Deakin university Australia
2016 - ongoing Board Member Contemporary Politics university of western Australia Australia
2015 - ongoing Associate Editor Journal of the Indian Ocean Region - -

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