NUCLEAR STRATEGY, NUCLEAR SAFETY, AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
“Is India Shifting to a Counterforce Strategy?” International Security 43, no. 3 (winter 2018-2019): 110-150 (with Vipin Narang).
“Safer at Sea? Pakistan’s Sea-Based Deterrent and Nuclear Weapons Security,” The Washington Quarterly 40, no. 3 (Fall 2017) (with Ankit Panda).
"A Multipolar Nuclear Asia in the Trump Era," Asan Forum 5, no. 1 (January-February 2017).
"Confusion is Risky," Indian Express, November 18, 2016.
“Correspondence: Battling over Pakistan’s Battlefield Nuclear Weapons,” International Security 40, no. 4 (2016).
“The Safety and Security of the Pakistani Nuclear Arsenal,” in Pakistan's Enduring Challenges, eds. C. Christine Fair and Sarah Watson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
“Deterrence Stability and the Conventional Balance of Forces in South Asia,” in Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia, eds. Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, December 2013).
“Doctrine, Capabilities, and (In)stability in South Asia,” in Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia, eds. Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, December 2013) (with Vipin Narang).
“How the Pakistan Military Learned to Love the Bomb,” Policy Brief (George Washington University, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, September 2013).
“Guarding the Nuclear Guardians,” India in Transition Series (University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Advanced Study of India, July 15, 2013); reprinted as “Lift the Lid of Nuclear Secrecy,” Hindu Business Line, July 15, 2013 and “India’s Secret Nuclear Capacity,” Patrika (Jodphur) [in Hindi] on September 26, 2013.
“The Future of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program,” in Strategic Asia, 2013-2014, eds. Ashley Tellis, Abraham Denmark, and Travis Tanner (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2013).
“The Pak-Saudi Nuke, and How to Stop It,” The American Interest 7, no. 6 (2012): 24-31 (with Mara Karlin).
Thinking about Pakistan’s Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis, and War (New Delhi: Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, 2010).
“Pakistan’s Motivations and Calculations for the Kargil Conflict,” in Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The 1999 Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan, ed. Peter R. Lavoy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) (with Peter Lavoy and Feroz Hassan Khan).
“A. Q. Khan, Proliferation Networks, and the Nuclear Slippery Slope,” in Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East, ed. James Russell (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006).
“A.Q. Khan and the Limits of the Nonproliferation Regime,” Disarmament Forum, no. 4 (2004).
“Dr. Khan’s Nuclear WalMart,” Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 76 (2004).
DEFENSE AND SECURITY ISSUES IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
“Russia-Pakistan Relations and the Constraints of Geoeconomics,” Asian Survey, forthcoming. (Ungated copy.)
“Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 4 (December 2021): 1064-1076 (with Niloufer Siddiqui and Sameer Lalwani).
“Voters and Foreign Policy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Pakistan,” Foreign Policy Analysis 17, no. 2 (April 2021) (with Niloufer Siddiqui).
"India and Pakistan Resort to the Diplomacy of Violence - And Flirt with Catastrophe," Washington Post, February 26, 2019.
"After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir, Will India Seek Vengeance or De-escalation," Washington Post, February 25, 2019.
“Tilting at Windmills: The Flawed U.S. Policy Toward the 1971 War,” Journal of Strategic Studies 42, no. 5 (2019): 677-700. (Ungated copy.)
"Personalities, Organizations, and Doctrine in the Indian Military," India Review 17, no. 1 (2018): 100-121. (Ungated copy.)
"Obama and the U.S.-Pakistan Marriage of Convenience,” in The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to Disillusionment, ed. Matthias Maass (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) (with Niloufer Siddiqui).
"Trump singled out India to do more in Afghanistan. That could easily backfire," The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, August 24, 2017.
"Today is India’s 70th birthday. How it answers these 3 questions will define its future — and the world’s," The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, August 15, 2017.
Drivers of Long-Term Insecurity and Instability in Pakistan: Urbanization (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 2014) (with Jonah Blank and Brian Nichiporuk).
“Modernization and Austerity,” Indian Express, September 16, 2013 (with Vipin Narang).
“Will India Ever Be America’s Partner?” ForeignPolicy.com, June 6, 2012.
Rapporteur, The United States and India: A Shared Strategic Future (New York: Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute India, September 2011).
“Saudi Arabia’s Reform Gamble,” Survival 53, no. 5 (2011): 15-20 (with Mara Karlin)
U.S. DEFENSE POLICY
Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, March 2003) (with Michael Krepon).
Following the Money: The Bush Administration FY03 Budget Request and Current Funding for Selected Defense, State, and Energy Department Programs (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, April 24, 2002) (with Elizabeth Turpen, Victoria K. Holt, and Moira K. Shanahan).
“Is India Shifting to a Counterforce Strategy?” International Security 43, no. 3 (winter 2018-2019): 110-150 (with Vipin Narang).
“Safer at Sea? Pakistan’s Sea-Based Deterrent and Nuclear Weapons Security,” The Washington Quarterly 40, no. 3 (Fall 2017) (with Ankit Panda).
"A Multipolar Nuclear Asia in the Trump Era," Asan Forum 5, no. 1 (January-February 2017).
"Confusion is Risky," Indian Express, November 18, 2016.
“Correspondence: Battling over Pakistan’s Battlefield Nuclear Weapons,” International Security 40, no. 4 (2016).
“The Safety and Security of the Pakistani Nuclear Arsenal,” in Pakistan's Enduring Challenges, eds. C. Christine Fair and Sarah Watson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
“Deterrence Stability and the Conventional Balance of Forces in South Asia,” in Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia, eds. Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, December 2013).
“Doctrine, Capabilities, and (In)stability in South Asia,” in Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia, eds. Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, December 2013) (with Vipin Narang).
“How the Pakistan Military Learned to Love the Bomb,” Policy Brief (George Washington University, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, September 2013).
“Guarding the Nuclear Guardians,” India in Transition Series (University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Advanced Study of India, July 15, 2013); reprinted as “Lift the Lid of Nuclear Secrecy,” Hindu Business Line, July 15, 2013 and “India’s Secret Nuclear Capacity,” Patrika (Jodphur) [in Hindi] on September 26, 2013.
“The Future of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program,” in Strategic Asia, 2013-2014, eds. Ashley Tellis, Abraham Denmark, and Travis Tanner (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2013).
“The Pak-Saudi Nuke, and How to Stop It,” The American Interest 7, no. 6 (2012): 24-31 (with Mara Karlin).
Thinking about Pakistan’s Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis, and War (New Delhi: Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, 2010).
“Pakistan’s Motivations and Calculations for the Kargil Conflict,” in Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The 1999 Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan, ed. Peter R. Lavoy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) (with Peter Lavoy and Feroz Hassan Khan).
“A. Q. Khan, Proliferation Networks, and the Nuclear Slippery Slope,” in Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East, ed. James Russell (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006).
“A.Q. Khan and the Limits of the Nonproliferation Regime,” Disarmament Forum, no. 4 (2004).
“Dr. Khan’s Nuclear WalMart,” Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 76 (2004).
DEFENSE AND SECURITY ISSUES IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
“Russia-Pakistan Relations and the Constraints of Geoeconomics,” Asian Survey, forthcoming. (Ungated copy.)
“Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 4 (December 2021): 1064-1076 (with Niloufer Siddiqui and Sameer Lalwani).
“Voters and Foreign Policy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Pakistan,” Foreign Policy Analysis 17, no. 2 (April 2021) (with Niloufer Siddiqui).
"India and Pakistan Resort to the Diplomacy of Violence - And Flirt with Catastrophe," Washington Post, February 26, 2019.
"After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir, Will India Seek Vengeance or De-escalation," Washington Post, February 25, 2019.
“Tilting at Windmills: The Flawed U.S. Policy Toward the 1971 War,” Journal of Strategic Studies 42, no. 5 (2019): 677-700. (Ungated copy.)
"Personalities, Organizations, and Doctrine in the Indian Military," India Review 17, no. 1 (2018): 100-121. (Ungated copy.)
"Obama and the U.S.-Pakistan Marriage of Convenience,” in The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to Disillusionment, ed. Matthias Maass (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) (with Niloufer Siddiqui).
"Trump singled out India to do more in Afghanistan. That could easily backfire," The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, August 24, 2017.
"Today is India’s 70th birthday. How it answers these 3 questions will define its future — and the world’s," The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, August 15, 2017.
Drivers of Long-Term Insecurity and Instability in Pakistan: Urbanization (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 2014) (with Jonah Blank and Brian Nichiporuk).
“Modernization and Austerity,” Indian Express, September 16, 2013 (with Vipin Narang).
“Will India Ever Be America’s Partner?” ForeignPolicy.com, June 6, 2012.
Rapporteur, The United States and India: A Shared Strategic Future (New York: Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute India, September 2011).
“Saudi Arabia’s Reform Gamble,” Survival 53, no. 5 (2011): 15-20 (with Mara Karlin)
U.S. DEFENSE POLICY
Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, March 2003) (with Michael Krepon).
Following the Money: The Bush Administration FY03 Budget Request and Current Funding for Selected Defense, State, and Energy Department Programs (Washington, D.C.: The Henry L. Stimson Center, April 24, 2002) (with Elizabeth Turpen, Victoria K. Holt, and Moira K. Shanahan).