Dr. Aditi Malhotra is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Journal (CAJ). She is the author of the books, Understanding Security Role Evolution of US, China and India: Setting the Stage (Routledge, 2022) and India in the Indo-Pacific (Barbara Budrich, 2022). Before joining the CAJ, Malhotra was the co-editor for the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (Graz, Austria). She was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.), and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (Oslo). Prior to that, Malhotra was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) in India. At CLAWS, she was also the deputy editor of Scholar Warrior, a bi-annual journal.
Malhotra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Muenster, Germany, and a Master’s in International Studies from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She writes on security issues in the Indo-Pacific region and nuclear deterrence in South Asia, and engages regularly in Track II dialogues focusing on nuclear deterrence and escalation dynamics
