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Nasim Zehra
Adjunct Professor, South Asia Studies; Visiting Scholar (Spring 2005)

Contact Details:
nzehra@fas.harvard.edu

Course Taught:
"Pivotal States": The Case of Pakistan

Education:
Ph.D. Candidate, Tufts University; MALD Tufts University (1989); MBA, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad (1981); B.A., Kinnard College, Lahore (1978)

Expertise:
State, Society and Politics in Pakistan; Pakistan’s National Security Policy; National Security in South and South-West Asia; Pakistan-US Relations; Nuclear Issue

Publications:

Working on a book on Pakistan-India Relations- Nuclear Neighbors: Quest for Peace.

Promotion of Pluralism and Good Governance through Media Development- World Press Freedom :"Media and Good Governance" UNESCO Publication 2005

The Greater Middle East Initiative , Media Monitors Network, March 2004 at http://world.mediamonitors.net/

N-Proliferation Crisis: Pakistan Crosses the Rubicon
Nasim Zehra, Arab News February 2004

Peace and Security In South Asia : Role of Media, Civil Societies and NGOs: Strategic Studies Autumn Winter 2003

Role of Media In Conflict Resolutionin Conflict Resolution and Regional Cooperation in South Asia, Published by Islamabad Policy Research Institute, 2003.

Pakistan-Iran Relations: Compulsions and Conditions for a Strategic Relationship March 2003 - August 2003, Vol V. No. 10. USI Digest, New Delhi

Terrorism and Insurgency: Problems, Causes and Solutions published in Conference proceedings entitled UN and South Asia by United Nations University, Tokyo 2002.

Evolution of Pakistan-US Relations (1947-1954) Masters dissertation Foreign Policy and Crisis of Governance in Defence Journal, March 2000

Taliban Afghanistan: Image and Governance –Harvard Asia Quarterly. Summer 2000

Pakistan Security and the CTBT, Defence Journal October 1999.

Just War: War without guilt: moral paradigm of imperialism Nasim Zehra Strategic Studies Autumn Winter 1991

Decoding The Nawaz-Vajpayee Summit, Defence Journal March 1999

Background:
Nasim Zehra is a senior Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center and is writing a book on Pakistan-India Relations since their nuclear tests in 1998. She is one of the two partners who established Development and Research Consultants, Pvt Ltd (DRC), a management and development consulting firm. She has been on the Pakistani President's Advisory Committee on Foreign Policy and National Security (2000-2002) and a member of the President's National Kashmir Committee (2001-2002). She writes extensively on international relations for newspapers in South Asia.


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