Walter Andersen, Ph.D.
Administrative Director of the South Asia Studies Program; Professorial Lecturer

Expertise

Geographic Areas
South Asia | India | Pakistan

Issues
ethnic conflict | intelligence | strategic and security issues | terrorism | U.S. Congress and foreign policy

Background and Education
Recently retired as chief of the U.S. State Department's South Asia Division in the Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia; held other key positions within the State Department, including special assistant to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and member of the Policy Planning Staff in Washington, D.C.; previously taught at the University of Chicago and the College of Wooster; current research involves Hindu nationalism and India's assertive foreign policy in the Indian Ocean and its littoral; Ph.D., political science, University of Chicago

Foreign Languages
German; Hindi

Publications
The Brotherhood in Saffron (1988); various journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on international politics of South Asia