Peer-Reviewed & Other Scholarly Work

• Genetic Superpower: International Rivalry in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, Bridging the Gap series
• “US-China Rivalry in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology,” in Analyzing China’s Domestic and Foreign Policies (2024)
• The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare,” Strategic Studies Quarterly (2021)

Policy Analysis & Commentary

• “Who Governs Our Biological Future?” Bioinsecurity (2026)
• “The Biotechnology Age Is Different from the Nuclear Age, or: Welcome to Bioinsecurity,” Bioinsecurity (2026)
• “The Future of Bioethics in a Changing World Order,” LSE Review of Books (2026)
• “Deterrence in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2025)
• “The International Bioweapons Regime Must be Strengthened, Not Exploited in Geopolitical Competition,” RSIS Commentary [with Karolina Zhukoff] (2024)
• “How to Avoid a Genetic Arms Race,” Hastings Bioethics Forum [with Jonathan D. Moreno] (2024)
• “The Ethics and Security Challenge of Gene Editing,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2023)
• “CRISPR and Global Security,” Science eLetter (2023)

Invited Talks & Workshops

• MIT Media Lab, Science and Technology Workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2026 (invited participant and presenter)
• Oxford China Policy Lab, Oxford University, 2026 (invited speaker)
• Renaissance Weekend, Amelia Island, FL, 2026 (invited speaker and panelist)
• Bioethics Education International, Bioethics, AI, Politics, and a New World Order Winter School, 2025 (invited speaker)
• U.S. Army War College, Department of Strategic Wargaming, 2025 (invited speaker)
• U.S. Naval War College, Ethics and Emerging Military Technology Graduate Program, 2025 (invited speaker)
• Strategic Multilayer Assessment, Joint Staff/J-39 Deputy Directorate for Global Operations, 2025 (invited speaker)
• MIT Wargaming Lab Summer Institute, 2024
• Wilson China Fellowship Conference, Washington, D.C., 2024 (panelist)
• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2024 (invited speaker)
• Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2024 (invited speaker)
• School of Social Sciences, Public Policy & Global Affairs Program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2024 (invited speaker) 
• Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore, 2024 (invited speaker)
• Sandia National Laboratories Strategic Force Analysis (Nuclear) Boot Camp, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2023
• Research Security in Today’s Geo-Political Era Conference, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2023 (invited panelist)
• Technology and International Politics Workshop, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry, 2023 (moderator)
• U.S. Naval War College, Ethics of Technology, 2022 (invited speaker)

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

• Upstate South Asias Virtual Guest Teaching Lectureship Award (2025)
• Wilson China Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2023-24)
• Academic Associate, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore (2024)
• Atlantic Council, South Asia Center, Nonresident Senior Fellow (2016-2025)
• American Institute of Afghanistan Studies John F. Richards Fellowship (2023)
• Andrew W. Marshall Foundation Paper Prize Finalist in New Revolutions in Military Affairs (2022)
• Andrew W. Marshall Foundation Paper Prize Semi-Finalist (with Jared Schwartz) in Future Reconfigurations in Asia (2022)
• Modern War Institute at West Point Fellow (2020-21)
• Alma Ostrom and Leah Hopkins Awan Civic Education Fund, APSA Centennial Center Research Grant (2020)
• Atlantic Council US-Pakistan Exchange Fellowship (2014-15)
• 2014. American Institute of Pakistan Studies Travel Grant (2014)
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship (2012-13)
• American Institute of Pakistan Studies Junior Fellowship (2012-13)
• Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship (2012)
• Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant [Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award] (2011)
• James R. Millar Graduate Student Prize from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (2011)
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, South Asia Summer Language Institute [Urdu] (2011)
• American Political Science Association Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs Fellow (2011)
• New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship (2011)
• IREX U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellowship, Kyiv, Ukraine (2009)
• Fulbright Fellowship, Moscow, Russia (2006-07)

Peer-Reviewed & Other Scholarly Work

• “Broken-Windows Counterinsurgency: Militarization and Resistance in India-Administered Kashmir,” Asia Policy (2026)
• “The Effects of State Presence on the Mental Mapping of Security: Evidence from an Experiment in Kashmir,” Journal of Peace Research [with Christopher Mann] (2024)
• “India as a Restorationist State: Implications for US-India Relations and South Asian Politics,” International Politics [with Jared Schwartz and Samantha Hotz] (2023)
• “China’s Security Strategy in Pakistan: Lessons for Washington,” Asian Security [with Jared Schwartz and Farhan Zahid] (2023)
• “A Kashmir Peace Deal Now? Ripeness, Readiness, and US Role,” Modern War Institute at West Point Report (2021)
• “Reconsidering How We Think about Proxies,” Asia Policy (2021)
• Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India, Oxford University Press (2019)
• “When Militias Provide Welfare: Lessons from Pakistan and Nigeria,” Political Science Quarterly [with Megan Turnbull] (2019)
• “Self-Defense Militias, Death Squads, and State Outsourcing of Violence in India and Turkey,” Journal of Strategic Studies (2018)
• “Genocidal Violence, Nation-Building, and the Bloody Birth of Bangladesh,” Asian Security [with Rachel Castellano] (2018)
• “Terrorist Prison Breaks,” Perspectives on Terrorism [with Trevor Cloen and Farhan Zahid] (2018)
• “How We Know What We Know About Pakistan: New York Times News Production, 1954-1971,” Modern Asian Studies (2017)
• “Why Terrorists Target Children: Outbidding, Desperation, and Extremism in the Peshawar and Beslan School Massacres,” Terrorism and Political Violence [with Farhan Zahid] (2016)
• “Channeling Islam: Religious Narratives on Pakistani Television and Their Influence on Pakistani Youth,” Asian Affairs: An American Review [with Sahar Gul and Feryaz Ocakli] (2016)
• “Violence by Proxy: Russia’s Ex-Rebels and Criminals in Chechnya,” in State Terror, State Violence: Global Perspectives (2016)
• “One Shield, Two Responses: Anti-U.S. Missile Defense Shield Protests in the Czech Republic and Poland,” Politics & Policy [with Feryaz Ocakli] (2015)
• “The Politics of Diplomatic Service Reform in Post-Soviet Russia,” Political Science Quarterly (2012)
• “Bureaucratic Partisanship and State Building: The Case of Ukrainian Foreign Ministry,” Problems of Post-Communism (2011) — Awarded James R. Millar Prize
• “Assessing the Costs of Weak Diplomatic Institutions” (Ukrainian: «Оцінюючи Втрати Внаслідок Слабких Інститутів Дипломатії»), Academic Bulletin of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (Науковий Вісник Дипломатичної Академії України) (2010)
• “Political Science and the Rules of Causal Inference” (Russian: «Политология и правила выявления причинно- следственных отношений»), Polis (2009)

Policy Analysis & Commentary

• “Safe Havens for Rebels,” Lawfare (2026)
• “The Other War the World is Ignoring,” The Interpreter [with Feryaz Ocakli] (2026)
• “Trump’s Iran Escalation Will Be the Next Iraq War,” Newsweek [with Feryaz Ocakli] (2026)
• “Cricket Diplomacy: India Playing the Long Game in Afghanistan,” Asia Times [with Avik Nandy] (2026)
• “Now Is the Time for Ukraine Peace Talks,” National Interest (2024)
• “The Putin-Prigozhin Game of Proxies,” Inkstick (2023)
• “What Kind of Neighbor is India Becoming?” India Policy (I-Policy) Commentary (2023)
• “The Indo-Pacific Is No Place for NATO,” Responsible Statecraft (2023)
• “To Support Afghan Women Activists, Prioritize Local Knowledge Over Numbers,” SouthAsiaSource [with Sophie Mae Berman] (2022)
• “Reflections on How Stanislau Shushkevich Made (Forgotten) History,” Harvard Davis Center Insights (2022)
• “How to Kill a Superpower: Do You Remember the Belavezha Agreement?” Inkstick [with Zachary Troyanovsky] (2021)
• “It’s Time for a Difficult Conversation with Delhi,” SouthAsiaSource, Atlantic Council (2021)
• “‘Do as I Do’ Diplomacy,” Inkstick (2021) — Featured in American Foreign Service Association Daily Media Digest
• “The Proxy Gambit,” Commentary & Analysis, Modern War Institute at West Point [with Maj. Alex Deep] (2021)
• “Eight Reasons Why the United States Should Promote Kashmir Peace Talks Now,” SouthAsiaSource, Atlantic Council (2021)
• “What Binds India and the US?” Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Expert Speak: Atlantic Files (2020)
• “A Divided Taliban Could Unleash a New Proxy War in Afghanistan,” New Atlanticist [with Jared Schwartz] (2020)
• “Young Kashmiris Think India and Pakistan Can Resolve Their Differences over Kashmir,” Washington Post [with Samir Ahmad] (2020) — Covered in Al Jazeera; The Telegraph; Kashmir Observer; EurAsian Times
• “What Lt. Col. Vindman’s Critics Get Wrong about Jews Who Fled the Soviet Union,” Washington Post [with Matthew Simkowitz] (2019)
• “Will the United States and China Keep India and Pakistan from Going to War?” Texas National Security Review (2019)
• “China and Pakistan Have Struck a Devil’s Bargain with Militants,” Foreign Policy [with Jared Schwartz] (2019)
• “Pakistan Is Ready for Stability in Afghanistan,” East Asia Forum [with Jared Schwartz] (2019)
• “Ending Terror in Kashmir,” Political Violence @ a Glance (2019) — Reprinted in Sri Lanka Guardian
• “Global War on Dangerous Ideas,” Greater Kashmir [with Samir Ahmad] (2019)
• “An Opportunity for Regional Leadership in South Asia,” New Atlanticist (2017)
• “Pakistani Militants Have Created Their Own Political Party. Can It Actually Win Votes?” Washington Post [with Niloufer Siddiqui] (2018)
• “Bridging the Gap between Policing and Counterinsurgency in Pakistan,” Military Review [with Farhan Zahid and Philip Hultquist] (2016)
• “When the Strong Weaponize the Weak: States and Guerrilla Warfare,” Sustainable Security, Oxford Research Group (2016)
• “Between Radicalization and Violence,” Political Violence @ a Glance (2016)
• “Peace by Assassination?” Political Violence @ a Glance [with Gage Willand] (2016)
• “The Problem with Proxies: Ideology is No Substitute for Operational Control,” Small Wars Journal [with Orr Genish] (2015)
• “Reimagining Pakistan’s Militia Policy,” Atlantic Council Issue Brief (2015)
• “In Pakistan, Domestic Threats Begin to Overshadow India,” Washington Post (2015)
• “Are There Lessons from Pakistan for Future of Fighting in Ukraine?” Washington Post (2014)
• “Between the East and West,” Moscow Times (2010)
• “Generation Putin,” Foreign Policy (2008)
• “Unwelcomed Missiles,” Russia Profile, [with Feryaz Ocakli] (2009)
• “Iran: Code Orange?” Foreign Policy in Focus (2009)
• “Learning from the Soviets in Afghanistan,” Foreign Policy in Focus (2008)
• “U.S.-Iran Relations Need Reform,” Wellesley News (2003)

Invited Talks & Workshops

• Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 2026 (invited speaker)
• Council of the European Union Asia-Oceania Working Party, Brussels, Belgium, 2025 (invited speaker)
• Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium, 2025 (invited speaker)
• Upstate South Asias Guest Teaching Lecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2025 (invited speaker)
• Upstate South Asia Workshop, Union College, 2024 (panelist)
• University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy, Charlottesville, VA, 2024 (invited speaker)
• Strategic Multilayer Assessment, Joint Staff/J-39 Deputy Directorate for Global Operations, 2023 (invited speaker)
• Countering a Resurgent and Transnational Terrorist Threat in Afghanistan, Atlantic Council South Asia Center, 2023 (working group participant)
• Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, Regional Dialogue: Contemporary Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Threats in South Asia, 2023 (speaker)
• New York Conference on Asian Studies, 2022 (panelist)
• Union College, Faculty Panel on War in Ukraine, 2022 (panelist)
• Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Conference, 2015, 2022 (panelist)
• Workshop on Teaching Intelligence, Central Florida Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence, 2021 (participant)
• Strategic Dialogues on Afghanistan: Implications of the Taliban’s New Government for Afghanistan, 2021 (moderator)
• Strategic Dialogues on Afghanistan: Democratization and the Road Ahead for Afghanistan, 2021 (private working group)
• Diplomatic Academy of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow, Russia, 2021 (invited speaker)
• Central University of Kashmir, Department of Politics and Governance, Webinar, 2020 (invited speaker)
• Center for Social and Political Research, Karachi, Pakistan, Webinar, 2020 (invited speaker)
• Association of Asia Scholars, Webinar, 2020 (invited speaker)
• U.S. Department of State, Ralph J. Bunche Library Speaker Series, 2019 (invited speaker)
• International Policy Summer Institute, Bridging the Gap: Connecting Research and Policy, American University, Washington, D.C., 2019
• India Security Workshop, NYU-Abu Dhabi, 2019 (panelist)
• Raisina Dialogue, New Delhi, India, 2018 (delegate)
• National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, 2016 (participant)
• Annual Conference on South Asia, 2013, 2014, 2015 (panelist)
• Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India, 2015 (invited speaker)
• Center for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2015 (invited speaker)
• National Police Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2014 (invited speaker)
• National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville, VA, 2014 (invited speaker)
• Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Basin Harbor Workshop, 2014
• Modern South Asia Workshop at Yale University, 2014 (panelist)
• Research and Design for Causal Inference, Northwestern Law, 2014 (participant)
• Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2013
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Strategic Use of Force Working Group, 2013 (invited speaker)
• Diplomatic Academy of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow, Russia, 2012 (invited speaker)
• Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 2012 (invited speaker)
• Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2012 (invited speaker)
• Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Geographic Information System (GIS) Institute, 2012 (panelist)
• National Seminar for Research Scholars, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2011 (panelist)
• Harvard University Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop, 2011 (panelist)
• Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse, NY, 2010 (participant)
• IREX/Woodrow Wilson Center Regional Policy Symposium, 2009 (panelist)
• IREX Regional Office in Kiev, Ukraine, 2009 (invited speaker)
• American Center in Moscow, Russia, 2008 (invited speaker)
• U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, 2008 (invited speaker)
• History of Russian-American Diplomatic Relations, FLEX Alumni Conference in Yaroslavl, Russia, 2007 (panelist)
• Russian Academy of Education Conference on Professional Education, Chebaksary, Russia, 2006 (invited speaker)