Select Publications

Books

Forged in Crisis: India and the United States since 1947 (New York: Oxford University

Press/London: Hurst/New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2013)

Journal Articles

The Limits of Executive Power: Indian Domestic Politics & Alliance Behaviour, pp. 95-

115, India Review, Volume 11/2, April 2012, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2012.674820 [Single

authored]

Balancing US Interests in South Asia. pp. 75-89, International Spectator (Journal of the

Istituto affair Internazionali) Volume 46/1, June 2011, DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2011.576172

[Single authored]

Campaign Disconnect: Operational Progress and Strategic Disconnect in Afghanistan, pp.

271-296, International Affairs, Volume 87/2, March 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-

2346.2011.00973.x [Co-authored]

Proxy Calculus, pp. 52-60, RUSI Journal, Volume 155/6, December 2010, DOI:

10.1080/03071847.2010.542660 [Single authored]

Why Culture Matters? Revisiting the Sino-Indian Border Conflict of 1962, pp. 841-869,

Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 32/6, December 2009, DOI:

10.1080/01402390903189618 [Single authored]

The Rumsfeld Doctrine and the Cost of US Unilateralism: Lessons Learned, pp. 358-375,

Defence Studies, Volume 7/3, September 2007, DOI: 10.1080/14702430701559263 [Co-

authored]

The Transatlantic Alliance Revisited: Does America Still Need Old Europe? pp. 387-398,

Defence & Security Analysis, Volume 21/4, December 2005, DOI:

10.1080/1475179052000345430 [Co-authored]

Turkish-Kurdish Relations and the EU: An Unprecedented Shift in the Kemalist Paradigm?

pp. 77-90, Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 16/4, Fall 2005, DOI: 10.1215/10474552-16-4-

77 [Co-authored]

Chapters in Edited Volumes

The Parliament and Indian Foreign Policy, Oxford Handbook on Indian Foreign Policy,

edited by David Malone, C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan, New York, Oxford

University Press, Forthcoming 2015

Pakistan and the Sino-Indian Border War, New International Perspectives on the Sino-

Indian War of 1962, edited by Lorenz Lthi and Amit Das Gupta, London, Bloomsbury

Press, Forthcoming 2015

Arms and Assistance in South Asia: Why Racing Alone Explains Little: 1953 to 1965,

Arms Races in International Politics, edited by Joe Maiolo, David Stevenson, and Thomas

Mahnken, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2015

Aberrant Conversationalists, pp. 360-376, Indias Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases,

edited by Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit, and V. Krishnappa, London, Routledge, 2014, ISBN:

978-0-415-73965-8

Negotiating its Way In: India in Afghanistan, pp. 83-99, The Regional Dimensions to

Security: Other Sides of Afghanistan, edited by Aglaya Snetkov and Stephen Aris, London,

Palgrave, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-137-33004-8

India, pp. 182-191, The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies, edited by Rob Dover,

Michael Goodman, and Claudia Hillebrand, London, Routledge, 2013, ISBN-10:

0415507529 [Single authored]

Dealing with the End Game: India and the AfPak Puzzle, pp. 204-218, Grand Strategy for

India: 2020 and Beyond, edited by Krishnappa Venkatshamy and Princy George, New Delhi,

Pentagon Press, 2012, ISBN: 978-81-8274-657-2 [Single authored]

Negotiating the Way Out, pp. 339-357, The Distant War 17 Perspectives on Afghanistan,

edited by Morten Tinning and Signe Lund, Copenhagen, Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum

Publication, 2011, ISBN: 978-87-89022-47-5 [Single authored]

Other Publications

Dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, Seminar Journal No.658 (June, 2014)

Taliban Perspectives on Reconciliation RUSI Briefing Paper (September, 2012) [co-

authored with Michael Semple, Anatol Lieven and Theo Farrell]

Spooks & States Seminar Journal No. 611 (July 2010) [co-authored]

'Strategic Partnerships' Seminar Journal No. 599 (July 2009)

'Strategic Communication' Seminar Journal No. 599 (July 2009) [co-authored]

'Changing India: An Assessment of the Foreign Policy Context of India's Defence

Procurement Practices' World Defence Systems (August 2008)

'A $10 billion Statement: Indian Aircraft Procurement and Foreign Policy' RUSI Newsbrief

27/11 (November 2007)

'US Policy & Pakistan: The Importance of Benazir Bhutto?' RUSI Newsbrief 28/2 (February

2008) (co-authored)

'Estranged Democracies to Engaged Partners: US-India Strategic Relations in the 21st

Century' RUSI Newsbrief 27 /7 (July 2007)

Newspaper Columns/Media

March 2013 : Monthly Column for the Telegraph (Calcutta)

January 2012 October 2012: Fortnightly Column for the Sunday Guardian (New Delhi)

2008 : Opinion piece contributions to The Guardian (London), Outlook Magazine (New

Delhi), The Indian Express (New Delhi), DNA (New Delhi), The Hindu Business Line (New

Delhi), The News (Pakistan)

2009 : Interviews including by BBC (Newsnight), ITV (Day-breaker), Channel 4 News,

Radio 5 Live/project work and outputs covered in National Dailies in the UK, US, Pakistan

and India.