Nicolas Blarel

Nicolas Blarel is an assistant professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

His research interests focus on India’s relations with the Middle-East, India's nuclear policies, India's relations with the U.S., India’s soft power potential, and India's insurgent movements and state-making.

Nicolas has worked for the French Foreign Ministry’s policy planning staff (the Centre d’Analyses et de Prévisions) on questions related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and nuclear proliferation. Nicolas has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi.

Before coming to Leiden, Nicolas studied at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg, Sciences Po Paris, and Indiana University.

You can follow him on Twitter (@nicoblar).