DR. HASSAN ABBAS is professor and department head of regional and analytical studies at the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior advisor at the Asia Society. His research interests are nuclear proliferation, religious extremism in South and Central Asia, and relations between Muslims and the West. Hassan is a former Pakistani government official who served in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1995–1996) and President Pervez Musharraf (1999–2000). His most recent book is The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Frontier (2014).
SHAHID JAVED BURKI, former finance minister of Pakistan and vice president of the World Bank, is currently chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore. He served at the World Bank for twenty-five years (1974–1999), as division chief and senior economist, Policy Planning and Program Review Department; senior economist and policy adviser, Office of the Vice President of External Relations; director, International Relations Department of the Office of the Vice President of External Relations; director of China and Mongolia; and vice president of the Latin American and Caribbean region. He is coauthor of Sustaining Reform with a U.S.–Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (2006).
SERGE GRANGER is associate professor at Sherbrooke University (Canada) and teaches international relations. He is particularly interested in India–China relations and the impact of the emergence of these two countries on Quebec. Visiting professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and visiting researcher at the University of Baroda and the University of Pune, he is the author of the book Le lys et le lotus: Les relations du Québec avec la Chine de 1650 à 1950 (2005) and is preparing a second book on Quebec-India relations.
SANA HAROON is assistant professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She authored a study of the history of religious mobilization in the Pakhtun northwest entitled Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland (2007) and has studied the rise of Deobandi Islam in the North West Frontier Province of colonial India. She is currently working on a study of Muslim cultural history in North India since 1747.
CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the King’s India Institute (London). He was director of the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po between 2000 and 2008. His research interests include theories of nationalism and democracy; mobilization of the lower castes and Dalits in India; the Hindu nationalist movement; and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. He has recently published The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience (2015).
FARAH JAN is a teaching associate and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Her research focuses on interstate rivalries; South Asian security, nuclear proliferation and national security strategies. Her dissertation examines the variation in the interaction between nuclear rivals.
ADNAN NASEEMULLAH is lecturer in South Asia and international relations at King’s College London. His research interests include the political economy of industrial development, state building, and political order, in relation to the Indian subcontinent. His current book manuscript explores the strategies of manufacturing firms in the postreform Indian and Pakistani economies. Dr. Naseemullah holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.
PHILIP OLDENBURG is a political scientist specializing in South Asia, who has taught as a regular member of the faculty and then as an adjunct at Columbia University since 1977 and has served there as director and associate director of the Southern Asian Institute. He has published scholarly work mainly on local government and politics of India (a book on Delhi municipal government and articles on land consolidation in the state of Uttar Pradesh) and on elections in India. He was editor or coeditor of ten volumes in the Asia Society’s India Briefing series. His most recent publication is India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths (2010).
AVINASH PALIWAL is the Defence Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the King’s College London. His current research concerns South Asian strategic affairs, Indian foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, and Afghanistan. Dr. Paliwal is currently writing a book on India in Afghanistan after the Cold War, and was the chairperson of the Afghanistan Studies Group at King’s College London. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.
AQIL SHAH is the Wick Cary Assistant Professor of South Asian Politics in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. His research interests include democratization, civil–military relations, and South Asian security. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and an M.Phil. in International Development from Oxford University, where he read as a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Shah has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton and Dartmouth. He is the author of The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan (2014).
MOHAMMAD WASEEM is a professor of political science at the Department of Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences. He was chairman of the International Relations Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He has written on ethnic, Islamic, constitutional, electoral, and sectarian politics of Pakistan. His books include Politics and the State in Pakistan (1989), The 1993 Elections in Pakistan (1994), and Strengthening of Democracy in Pakistan (coauthored with S. J. Burki, 2002). He also edited the book Electoral Reform in Pakistan (2002).
MARIAM ABOU ZAHAB is a researcher affiliated with Sciences Po in Paris and has also worked at Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales and has lectured at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. She is an expert in the area of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Shiism, sectarianism, jihadi groups, Pashtun society, and the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. She coauthored Islamist Networks: The Afghan–Pakistan Connection (2004) with Olivier Roy.