Sameer Lalwani is a Research Fellow with the New America Foundation's
American Strategy Program, a contributor to the popular political blog The
Washington Note and is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a member of the Security Studies
Program and the Program on Emerging Technologies, Mr. Lalwani studies great
power intervention, civil-military relations, violent non-state actors, and
national security decision making with a focus on Middle East and South Asian
geopolitics. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Pakistani military
capabilities for counterinsurgency.
Previously he was a Policy Analyst for New America's American Strategy
Program and has published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles
Times, Foreign Policy, India West, and TPM Cafe. He
has studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Heinz School of
Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
