Policy

I am passionate about policy efforts that leverage science and technology to cooperatively build global peace and security. I periodically publish in policy outlets and speak about technical cooperation on think tank panels and through “tracked diplomacy” engagements. To help “bridge the gap” between policy and academia, I serve as a non-resident fellow with Sandia National Laboratories CMC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and with the Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (Kathmandu, Nepal).

Selected Op-Eds

• “Mutual Vulnerability and Risk Reduction in South Asia,” Pakistan Politico, 17 Oct 2019.
• “Chinese Mediation on the Subcontinent?” Stimson Center Series, 17 Sept 2019.
• “Indian Media Plays a Crucial Role in Times of Crises with Pakistan,” The Wire, 10 Dec 2018.
• “Who Will Prevent the Next India-Pakistan War?,” Defense One, 4 Dec 2018.
• “A Political Choice: What Sparks an India-Pakistan Crisis?” The Hindu, 15 Mar 2018.
• “The Debate Over Indian Nuclear Strategy is Heating Up,” War on the Rocks, 5 Apr 2017.
• “Facing Armageddon in South Asia,” Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr 2016.
• “India’s Nuclear Dangers,” Foreign Policy, 31 Mar 2016.

Selected Events

• “Emerging Technologies & Strategic Stability in Southern Asia,” Sandia National Laboratories CMC panel, 24 March 2021.
  
• “India in the Evolving Space Security Domain,” Sandia National Laboratories CMC panel, 11 March 2021.
• “Nuclear Risk in Asia,” Council for Strategic and Defense Research (New Delhi) panel, 25 March 2021.
  
• Nuclear Proliferation International History Project book launch panel of Rabia Akhtar’s The Blind Eye: U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan From Ford to Clinton, Wilson Center, 3 Apr 2019.
• “The Nuclear Future: Can There Be Order Without Trust?,” Stimson Center panel, 30 Jul 2018.