Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), a public policy think tank in Washington DC, which he helped establish in 2020. He is also the author of Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Penguin India, 2024), an introduction to India's international relations. He currently writes a regular column for the Hindustan Times newspaper in India.
Mr. Jaishankar was previously a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Prior to that, he was a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington DC. From 2009 to 2012, he was program officer with the Asia Program at GMF. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi.
- Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Gurugram: Penguin Random House India, 2024)
- Rebalancing Globalization: Perspectives from the Global South (Washington DC: Observer Research Foundation America, 2024). (Co-edited with Anit Mukherjee)
- "India’s Indo-Pacific Reorientation," in Harsh V Pant and Premesha Saha, eds., India, South Korea and the ASEAN: Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025).
- "India and the US: The Diaspora, Democracy, and Diplomacy Trifecta," in Harsh V Pant and Vivek Lall, eds., India-U.S. Relations in the Modi Era: Aligned but Autonomous (New Delhi: Har Anand Publications, 2024).
- "India, the Quad, and the Liberal International Order," in Yuichi Hosoya and Hans Kundnani, eds., The Transformation of the Liberal International Order: Evolutions and Limitations (New York: Springer, 2023).
- "India's Foreign Policy Realignments," in Aparna Pande ed., Routledge Handbook on South Asian Foreign Policy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
- "Law and Power: Enforcing UNCLOS in the Indo-Pacific," in Alok Bansal, Deeksha Goel, and Siddharth Singh eds., UNCLOS: Solutions for Managing the Maritime Global Commons (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2021)
- “Look East to Act East,” in Dhruv C. Katoch ed., India’s Foreign Policy: Towards Resurgence (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2019)
- "Maritime Connectivity and Security in the Indo-Pacific," in Lalit Mansingh, Anup K. Mudgal, and Udai Bhanu Singh eds., Purbasa East meets East - Synergising the North-East and Eastern India with the Indo-Pacific (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2019).
- "India as an Asian Power," in Vinod Rai and Amitendu Palit eds., Seven Decades of Independent India: Ideas and Reflections (Gurgaon: Penguin India, 2018)
- "A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan–India Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific," in Rajesh Basrur and Sumitha Narayanan Kutty eds., India and Japan: Assessing the Strategic Partnership (Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, 2018).
- “India and Germany: Realizing Strategic Convergence,” in Gurjit Singh, ed., Opportunity Beckons: Adding Momentum to the Indo-German Partnership (New Delhi: Rupa, 2017)
- "Indian Strategy in a Non-Strategic Age," in Atul K Thakur ed., India Now And in Transition, (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2017)
- “Europe in Indian Strategy,” in Krishnappa Vekatshamy and Princy George, Grand Strategy for India: 2020 and Beyond (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2012)
- "Chronicle of a Deal Foretold: Washington's Perspective on Negotiating the Indo-U.S. Nuclear Agreement," in P.R. Chari ed., Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal: Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009).
- "India's Tech Strategy: An Introductory Overview," Background Paper No. 23, Observer Research Foundation America, May 2024 (with Tisyaketu Sirkar)
- "Precision Targets: Accelerating the U.S.-India Defense Industrial Partnership," Background Paper No. 12, Observer Research Foundation America, February 2023 (with Gopal Nadadur)
- "Democracy in Indian Foreign Policy," Special Report No. 1, Observer Research Foundation America, September 2022 (with Ammar Nainar)
- "The Australia-India Strategic Partnership: Accelerating Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific," Analysis, Lowy Institute, 17 September 2020.
- "Acting East: India in the Indo-Pacific," Impact Series, Brookings India, October 2019.
- "The Indigenisation of India's Defence Industry," Impact Series, Brookings India, August 2019.
- "Survey of India's Strategic Community," Impact Series, Brookings India, March 2019.
- "India and the United States in the Trump Era: Re-evaluating Bilateral and Global Relations," Policy Paper No. 37, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution, June 2017.
- "Internet Freedom 2.1," The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2015.
- "FourSight: A Taskforce on China's Strategic Future," ORF America and ASPI DC, 2024
- "India 2024: Policy Priorities for a New Government," Brookings India, 2019
- "India-U.S. Relations in Transition," Brookings India, 2016
- "A Transatlantic Pakistan Policy," German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2014
- "China and India: New Actors in the Southern Atlantic," German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2012.
- "The Destroyer," Contingent, July 21, 2023
- "The New India Policy," Seminar, No. 715, 2019
- "Resilience and the Future Balance of Power," Survival, Vol. 56, Issue 3, 2014.
- "Germany and the Indo-Pacific," in Germany's Role in a Changing International Order, The German Marshall Fund and Alfred Landecker Foundation, February 2025.
- "India and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific." Taiwan and India: Strategizing the Relations, TAEF Research Series 006, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, February 2022.
- "Exploring India's Economic Diplomacy with the U.S." A 2030 Vision for India’s Economic Diplomacy, GP-ORF Series, Global Policy & Observer Research Foundation, 2021.
- "Perspectives on a Changing World Order," Discussion Paper Series on Managing Global Disorder No. 1, Council on Foreign Relations, June 2020.
- "Deepening Democracy through Diversity: Improving Coordination with India and Non-Western Democracies," Democracy and Disorder Series, Brookings Institution, 2019
- "India Rising: Soft Power and the World's Largest Democracy," in Soft Power 30, 2018
- "The United States and India: Forging an Indispensible Democratic Partnership," Center for American Progress, 2018
- "Survey on America's Role in the Indo-Pacific," Perth U.S.-Asia Centre, 2017
- "Uneasy Triangle: India's Evolving Relations with the United States and China," in Realising the Indo-Pacific: Tasks for India's Regional Integration, Perth U.S.-Asia Centre, 2017
- "Indian Ocean Region: A Pivot for India's Growth," Indian Ocean Conference, 2016
- "India's Military Diplomacy," in Defence Primer: India at 75, Observer Research Foundation, 2016
- "India & South Korea: The Promise of Partnership," Korea Economic Institute, 2012