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P.V. Rao (b. 1950) is Professor of Political Science and Director, Centre for Indian Ocean Studies, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He obtained a Ph.D. in European integration from Centre for American and West European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was a British Council Scholar at London School of Economics; Fulbright Fellow, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow, BCIS, Colombo. His research contributions are on European Union, south Asian Regional Cooperation, Indo-US relations and Indian Ocean’s political and economic issues and he has published articles in these areas in national and international journals. He has authored and edited, Globalisation and New Regionalism in Indian Ocean (BCIS, Colombo, 1997); Indian Ocean: An Annotated Bibliography (Kalinga, 1997); Regional Cooperation in Indian Ocean: Trends and Perspectives (South Asian Publishers, 2000); India and Indian Ocean: In the Twilight of the Millennium (South Asian Publishers, 2002). He is the editor of Indian Ocean Digest, a biannual publication CIOS.