As North Korea threatens “to deliver merciless blows” with nuclear weapons, the Asian and Asian American studies program at Binghamton University has brought a visiting professor who knows the geo-psychology and politics behind it all.

This year’s AAASP visiting professor is Dr. B.M. Jain. Born and raised in India, Jain is a renowned scholar and author of Asian politics.

In September, Dr. Jain and 15 to 20 other scholars from around the world were invited to London to attend “Transnational Security,” a conference organized by the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom and King’s College London.

“I presented a paper on how a nation’s security is driven by geo-psychology,” he said. “We must engage small countries, such as North Korea, in political dialogue.”

Jain is senior research scientist in political science at the South Asia Studies Centre at the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur, India. He is also an honorable academician and research professor at the International Noble Academy in Toronto, Canada and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research in Honolulu, Hawaii.

He is the author of books about Asian and international politics and has written articles in the “Encyclopedia of Modern Asia” and other encyclopedias.

He has delivered more than three dozen lectures around the world — from Germany, to England, to Philadelphia.

And he has come to BU to spread his knowledge and to motivate his students “to be intellectual and creative leaders in their own fields,” he said.

He is currently working with a publisher on his book entitled “Global Power: India’s Foreign Policy 1947-2006.” But according to AAASP director Dr. John Chaffee, who hired Jain, visiting professors are not brought here to solely “sit in their offices and write books.” They’re here to teach.

According to Chaffee, Jain has “a full professor’s load.” Jain is teaching “Indo-U.S. Relations” and “India-South Asia: New World Order.”

“I really enjoy teaching here,” Jain said, “because in India the teacher is talking to himself.” Jain likes to engage his students to debate and ask questions.

Jain lectures on topics like “The Nuclear Weapons Club” (a look at which countries have them, which don’t, and why), democracy in India and international conflict in South Asia.

Sophomore Kelly Jones, a political science major, attends the India-South Asia class. Jones is awed by Jain’s knowledge base.

“It’s definitely a class [in which] you don’t want to doze off for a second,” she said.