Hassan Abbas
joined the National Defense University's College of International Security
Affairs as a Professor of International Security Studies in August 2011. Prior
to that he was the Distinguished Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor at Columbia
University in New York (2009-2011).
Hassan is a Senior Advisor at the Asia Society,
where he also served as a Bernard Schwartz Fellow (2009-10). He was also a
Senior Advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, after having been a
Research Fellow at the Center from 2005-2009. He remains a non-resident Fellow
at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), Michigan, and an
Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), University of
Bradford, in the United Kingdom.
Hassan received his MALD and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University, and an LL.M. in International Law from Nottingham
University, United Kingdom, where he was a Britannia Chevening Scholar
(1998-99). He received his Master's in Political Science from Punjab University
in Pakistan. Abbas remained a fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at
Harvard Law School and as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School's
Program on Negotiation from 2002 until 2004.
He regularly appears as an analyst on media including CNN, ABC, BBC, Fox News,
C-Span and GEO TV (Pakistan) among others. His opinion pieces and research
articles have been published in various leading international newspapers and
academic publications. His latest publications include an Asia Society study
group report titled Pakistan
2020: A Vision for Building a Better Future (May 2001). Hassan's well
acclaimed book Pakistan's Drift into
Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror (M E Sharpe, 2004)
remains on bestseller lists in Pakistan and India and was widely reviewed
internationally. His forthcoming book is entitled Taliban Revival (Yale University Press, 2012). He also runs
WATANDOST, a blog on Pakistan and its neighbors' related affairs.
Hassan's articles and blog posts on the AfPak
Channel represent his personal views.
