Selected recent writing
- Don't underestimate Iran's election upset, Bloomberg (16 June 2013)
- Why the US should show its evidence on Syria's use of chemical weapons, The Guardian (14 June 2013)
- Hubris and Nemesis, With a Turkish Accent, The Telegraph (3 June 2013)
- Are the Dark Days Returning to Iraq?, CNN (22 May 2013)
- Digital Destruction - review of Thomas Rid's 'Cyber War Will Not Happen', The Financial Times (10 May 2013)
- Red Lines on Iran: Not so Black and White, The Diplomat (4 May 2013)
- On changing patterns of war and lighter footprints, The Telegraph (2 May 2013)
- Iran: Red Lines and Grey Areas, RUSI Briefing Paper (April 2013)
- Red lines and Syrian chemical weapons, RUSI.org (26 April 2013)
- Is North Korea really looking to start a war?, The Telegraph (5 April 2013)
- The Turkey-Israel rapprochement, Foreign Policy (4 April 2013, with Aaron Stein)
- Patriot Missiles Won't Cure Syria, The National Interest (22 March 2013, with Aaron Stein)
- US Syria strategy to provide arms aims to salvage reputation , BBC News (1 March 2013)
- New Year, New Problem? Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapons, The Diplomat (1 January 2013)
- In Asia, growth has not brought trust, and it might yet bring conflict, The Telegraph (27 December 2012)
- We have until June 2013 to end the Iranian nuclear crisis, The Guardian (25 December)
- The West must prepare for Syria’s endgame, The Telegraph (6 December 2013)
- Europe deserves its Nobel, The Hindu (25 October 2012)
- Lebanon risks being torn apart by Syrian conflict, BBC (24 October 2012); see longer RUSI.org version here
- Film protests: what explains the anger?, BBC News (15 September 2012)
- Is Syria the new Iraq?, CNN (31 May 2012)
- Paradigm trap: Indian foreign policy and non-alignment , The Caravan (1 May 2012)
- The arms race myth, The New York Times (23 April 2012)
- India's nuclear choices, The Times of India (23 April 2012)
- India and the Middle East: New Delhi's balancing acts in West Asia, The Hindu (13 April 2012)
- The Indian mutiny that wasn't: behind the coup rumors in Delhi, Foreign Policy (5 April 2012)
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Recent blog posts
- A Turkey reading list
- Did Stuxnet work?
- Indian views of Nawaz Sharif’s election
- Indian perspectives on border tensions with China
- What to read on Syria and chemical weapons, Part II
- What to read on Syrian chemical weapons
- The end of Mutually Assured Destruction?
- Richard Betts on deterrence, Iran, and ambiguity
My Twitter
- RT @yarotrof: #Karzai suspends post-2014 security talks w US, citing "contradiction" between US words, deeds on peace process w #Taliban #A… 13 hours ago
- RT @BenjaminHarvey: London-based broker note to clients on Erdogan's latest speech: "rantings of a madman... genuinely disturbing...mkt is … 1 day ago
- ISAF Commander General Dunford, talking about the "handover" to Afghan forces: http://t.co/tbsAvrWGIZ 1 day ago
- My mode of transport out of Kabul this morning: http://t.co/6iQiipRPtD 1 day ago
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Hamid Karzai earlier today, at the ISAF-ANSF "handover" ceremony: http://t.co/wR6ydCfhsR 1 day ago
- RT @robinenergy: "it is a serious mistake to believe that the new president [Rouhani] will be powerless" bloom.bg/15aFGv8 by @shashj 1 day ago
- RT @bungdan: Damn. Snowden asked if he'd trade US secrets for assylum in China; refuses to answer the question. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun… 2 days ago
- RT @julianborger: Explosive stuff in Edward #Snowden Q&A US intel analysts "can enter and get results for anything they want" http://t.co/l… 2 days ago
- RT @fanarhaddad: Not sure which is more upsetting: the Q posed by alJazeera or the landslide answer? Jazeera asks whos to blame in #Syria: … 2 days ago
- RT @myraemacdonald: Good piece by @shashj Don’t Underestimate Iran’s Election Upset (and don't just focus on nuclear issues) http://t.co/pc… 2 days ago
Blogroll
- Abu Muqawama
- al-bab (Brian Whitaker)
- Arms Control Wonk
- Banyan
- Broadsword (Ajai Shukla)
- Dart-Throwing Chimp (Jau Ulfelder)
- Ink Spots
- IntelNews
- Iran Pulse (Eskander Sadeghi-Borujerdi)
- Manoj Joshi
- Marc Lynch
- Nuclear Secrecy (Alex Wellerstein)
- Nukes of Hazard
- Pakistan: Now or Never
- Registan
- Rethinking Security (Adam Elkus)
- Riding the Elephant (John Elliot)
- Slouching Towards Columbia (Dan Trombly)
- Syria Comment (Joshua Landis)
- The Arabist
- The Duck of Minerva
- The Gun (C.J. Chivers)
- The Indian National Interest
- The Monkey Cage
- The Moor Next Door
- Thin Pinstriped Line
- Thomas Rid
- Turkey Wonk (Aaron Stein)
- Uskowi on Iran
- Waq-al-Waq (Gregory Johnsen)
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